Advocacy

Culture in the EU’s National Recovery and Resilience Plans

Thursday December 9th, 2021

This publication, developed by Culture Action Europe and its membership, offers an overview of the place of culture in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) of the Member States of the European Union. In 2020, as an immediate response to the pandemic crisis the EU institutions adopted an one-of-a-kind stimulus package, called Next Generation EU, (NGEU), to boost the recovery of…

Freedom of Artistic Expression in the European Union

Friday November 12th, 2021

Freedom of artistic expression (FoAE) is a fundamental pillar of any democratic system and a key value of the European project. Rarely researched as an autonomous legal concept, FoAE has been often conflated with other rights or freedoms or treated as a part of a broader analysis of the general freedom of expression. This has resulted in a rather fragmented…

Open letter to Conference Plenary: ensure the inclusion of marginalised communities!

Monday October 18th, 2021

Dear members of the Conference Plenary, On 19th June 2021, 57 civil society organisations from across Europe sent a letter to the Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe (hereafter: the Conference), expressing strong concerns about the lack of inclusion of marginalised communities in the Conference. On 16th July 2021, the Co-Chairs sent a reply, indicating that they are not planning…

A call for an inclusive Conference on the Future of Europe

Wednesday June 30th, 2021

On June 18 over 50 civil society organizations across Europe, including Culture Action Europe, joined Citizens Take Over Europe in signing an open letter to the Co-Chairs and Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), calling for the inclusion of marginalised communities in the Conference. The letter, which was sent in advance of the inaugural plenary of the CoFoE on June 19…

The situation of artists and cultural workers in the European Union

Thursday April 1st, 2021

The study provides an overview of the key characteristics of artists’ and cultural workers’ status across Europe, their working conditions, and career paths.

Secure a future for cultural life in Europe

Friday March 19th, 2021

Following the open letter published by 110+ pan-European networks on 30 October 2020 “Make culture central in the EU recovery”, the group comes together again to reiterate their call to the national governments and the European Commission. In the second open letter published today by the group, coordinated by Culture Action Europe, the European cultural community call on the Member States…

Heritage Contact Zone Toolkit

Thursday November 26th, 2020

The Heritage Contact Zone (HCZ) Toolkit offers a repository of resources that can be used by practitioners and academics alike who work with contested heritage and creative practices. It brings together the findings from the partners from their activities within the HCZ project and reference points that they have collected. This toolkit is designed for practitioners who work with difficult…

Rooted Participation | In Support of New Heritage Policies

Thursday November 26th, 2020

Policy-makers and those who implement cultural policies need to pay greater attention to soft-infrastructure and participation, rather than traditional approaches prioritising hard infrastructure. Now is the time to place community involvement to co-design and manage such processes at the core of the new Creative Europe programme, Horizon Europe, the Rights and Values programme, the European Regional Development and Cohesion Fund,…

A Cultural Deal for Europe

Thursday November 26th, 2020

There is no recovery or future for Europe without culture. The European cultural ecosystem is convinced that Europe needs a new Cultural Deal, a transversal, overarching framework that should demonstrate the EU’s political commitment to place culture at the heart of the European project. Culture is what brings us together. It is at the basis of the European project and…

Open Letter | Culture in EU’s External Relations

Friday November 20th, 2020

Along with 20 other cultural organisations, Culture Action Europe calls on the European Commission and the European Parliament to give proper consideration and strengthen international cultural relations within future policy frameworks including in foreign and sustainable development policies; as well as in the upcoming EU financial framework. The signatories believe that while culture is a strategic factor of the EU…

Open Letter | European Recovery and Resilience Plans and Civil Society

Tuesday November 17th, 2020

On November 10, 2020, Culture Action Europe jointly submitted an open letter to the German Presidency of the EU, European Parliament Budget and ECON Chairs, and European Commission Task Force on European Recovery Plan regarding concerns with the lack of involvement of civil society organisations in the design and adoption of the European regulatory framework for the National Recovery and…

Make culture central in the EU Recovery | Open letter

Friday October 30th, 2020

In the open letter, published on October 30, 2020, Culture Action Europe, along with other 109 pan-European cultural networks and associations calls the European Union (EU) and EU member states to protect culture as part of the coronavirus recovery plans and dedicate at the very least 2% of national Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) budget to culture and creative sectors….

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