#NamePlaceFund open letter to the Irish Presidency of the Council
The coordinators of the #NamePlaceFund campaign, who together represent approximately 1,200 institutions involved in artistic and cultural research and cultural heritage in Europe, have sent an open letter to the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU calling for a vision of research, innovation and competitiveness in the next long-term EU budget (MFF) that fully embeds the arts and the CCSI to address the challenges of the future.
The open letter, jointly-signed by Culture Action Europe, AEC – European Association of Conservatoires, ELIA, GEECT, MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement, CILECT, European Association for Architectural Education, EQ-Arts | Enhancing Quality in the Arts, Michael Culture Association, Society for Artistic Research and the Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies of the University of Galway, stresses the importance of securing the presence of culture for research, innovation and competitiveness in the MFF. Specifically, the signatories call on the Council to go beyond the current partial general approaches presented on Horizon Europe, its accompanying Specific Programme, and the European Competitiveness Fund to name, place, and fund culture.
The signatories make the case for a vision of competitiveness that recognises cultural, social and environmental dimensions alongside economic ones, nurtured by the CCSI, cultural heritage, cultural diversity, creative agency and artistic intelligence. Acting upon such a vision would demonstrate action on the commitments signed up to in the Joint Declaration ‘Culture for Europe – Europe for Culture.’