Too often, “culture and health” is confined to a niche, spoken about in clinical terms and judged by health metrics. To move beyond that frame, we need a wider vocabulary. Culture is not merely healing; it is foundational to how people make meaning, build relationships and imagine futures.
Culture Action Europe, together with 30 European cultural networks and organisations, sent a letter to the European Council and national ministers of finance and culture to urge to reverse the proposed 27.56 million EUR cuts to the Creative Europe Programme in the 2026 financial year.
Read Culture Action Europe’s notes from the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) on Thursday 25 September.
Culture Action Europe is proud to present ‘Towards the Culture Compass: A Sector Blueprint’: a discussion paper resulting from the joint efforts of 30 cross-border European cultural networks, aiming to propose a direction for European cultural policies.
On 23 September, cultural networks in the CAE network gathered in Brussels to discuss their collective actions to protect culture’s place in the next MFF.
What is culture’s place in climate policy? Read more from this recent publication from EMCCINNO.
#CAEonthego Hear from Natalie Giorgadze’s panel at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival.
As the European Union prepares for the 2025 State of the Union address this week, Culture Action Europe has written to President Ursula von der Leyen.