Priorities for the Work Plan for Culture 2023-2026
On 11 July, 2022 Culture Action Europe, in cooperation with the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU, organised a workshop on the priorities of the next Council Work Plan for Culture 2023-2026.
To be adopted in late November under the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Work Plan will represent the main roadmap for the coordination of cultural policies at the EU level in the years to come, those that will have to trigger a paradigm shift to adapt to new normality after a pandemic and a war, in addition to facing the climate emergency.
The workshop brought together Culture Action Europe members from the wider cultural ecosystem – transnational cultural networks, as well as national organisations, activists and policy-makers – and representatives from over 15 EU Member States. This created the opportunity for CAE Members to share their insights on key features of the cultural sector, engage in a shared dialogue around pertinent issues and develop a concrete set of suggestions to include in the drafting of the new Work Plan.
Through open discussion methods (a fishbowl conversation followed by breakout conversations), the meeting resulted in the following topic areas and concrete action points for the years to come. This is a living document that Culture Action Europe will use as a guiding outline to better strengthen the work of renewing the 2023-2026 Work Plan.