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The European Commission has adopted the main work programme of Horizon Europe for the period 2021-2022, which outlines the objectives and specific topic areas that will receive a total of €14.7 billion in funding (out of the 95.5 billion for the 7-year period until 2027). The newly-published Horizon Europe work programme is based on the Horizon Europe’s Strategic Plan, which…

As EU and US leaders are meeting in Brussels, more than 100 organisations from across Europe’s and America’s cultural and creative sectors are uniting their voices to call for attention to the EU-US cultural relations, of particular importance to recover from the Corona crisis. The EU and the US are highly important export markets for culture. Cultural services accounted for…

Following the green light by the EU’s co-legislators, this week the new Creative Europe programme (2021-2027) has been launched with the adoption of the 2021 annual work programme. On its basis, the first calls for proposals will be published in the coming weeks. With an overall budget of more than 2.4 billion euros in current prices, the new Creative Europe…

Three years on, the new Creative Europe programme is finally on the starting line, following the green light by the EU Institutions, with the first calls to be published in the upcoming weeks. On 19 May the programme was finally adopted following a vote by the European Parliament following a debate in the plenary.   It was May 2018 when the…

As part of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Presidency Conference on “Culture, Cohesion and Social Impact” was held on 5 and 6 May from the Fundação de Serralves Porto. This conference was a benchmark for the most needed public and political debate to highlight the fundamental role of culture in strengthening social cohesion. The…

On Europe Day, 9 May 2021, the European Parliament in Strasbourg hosted the inaugural event of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). The EU leaders presided over an inaugural ceremony for the launch of the participatory process set up jointly by Parliament, Council and Commission that aims at engaging citizens in re-shaping the EU. This whole exercise may…

It’s Europe week. As every year at this time, we take a moment to celebrate Europe, a symbolic space, based on peace, solidarity, democracy, inclusion, diversity, equality, justice, freedom and rights. These values have been the guiding principles for the European Union over the last 70 years and definitely should not be taken for granted. Now Europe looks into the…

On 27 and 28 April 2021, the Porto Santo Conference, an initiative of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, officially launched the Porto Santo Charter. The hybrid event took place in Porto Santo island, on the Madeira Archipelago. For these two days, the remote island transformed into a centre for proposals on public cultural and educational policies. …