The Civil Society Contact Group, which brings together eight large human rights and value-based NGO sectors – culture (represented by Culture Action Europe), environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women –, has published a joint statement asking the European Commission to respect fundamental principles of public interest when preparing its communication on … Continued
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), which represent over 1000 cities across 95 countries, approved on 17 November 2010 – in the framework of the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders held in Mexico -, a recognizing culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development, next to economic growth, social inclusion and environmental balance. … Continued
After submitting our contribution to the public consultation of the next generation of the EU Culture Programme in December, we are currently busy preparing a more detailed position paper on the Culture Programme as well as preparing our demands for our second campaign objective – earmarked support to culture in the next generation of EU structural funds. The … Continued
The Culture Programme is the only instrument of the European Union exclusively dedicated to support arts and culture. Today, the 15th of December 2010, is the deadline of the European Commission’s public consultation on the next Culture Programme. The Commission will use the input from the consultation to design the next generation of the Culture … Continued
To read Culture Action Europe’s contribution to the consultation on the Culture Programme and we are more campaign’s demands on the Culture Programme go here.
Life without art from European Cultural Foundation on Vimeo.
Part of the we are more campaign adventure over the next three years will consist of stimulating a joint reflection on what kind of Europe we would like to live in by the year 2020 and beyond, also looking at the role of arts and culture in helping to develop fair, equal and sustainable European societies.