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Boosting the EU culture budget: A call from Europe’s cultural & creative sectors

Tuesday April 10th, 2018

Together with 66 organisations from European cultural and creative sectors, Culture Action Europe send a letter to President Juncker asking for the boost in the EU culture budget. In this letter we urge the EU to give a significant and much-needed boost to the EU’s budget dedicated to culture. The cultural and creative sectors provide more than 12 million full-time…

Networks of Tomorrow: CAE speaks with Tere Badia

Thursday March 22nd, 2018

In this conversation with Culture Action Europe (CAE), Tere Badia, incoming Secretary General of CAE, shares her vision on the future of European networks and the arts & cultural sector in times of uncertainties. Culture Action Europe (CAE): Social, political and cultural environment of 90-ies, when European networks started mushrooming, was essentially different from the one of today. There’s a…

Press Release: Culture and Education for All

Monday March 19th, 2018

Culture and Education for All: Building the Skills for More Resilient Societies Brussels, 16 March 2018 Civil society organisation[1], European and International Institutions, permanent representations, universities, teachers and stakeholders came together on March 14th to discuss a common approach to linking culture and education. In light of the European Year of Cultural Heritage and the European Commission’s 2017 Communication on…

Structural and Financial Barriers to Access to Culture

Friday March 16th, 2018

The Cult Committee held a public hearing on access to culture on the 26 February. Invited experts discussed public funding for culture, copyright, cross-border tax policy issue, and new financing models for arts centres geared to fulfil the social, educational and democratic role of culture. You can find their presentations here. The ensuing debate focused on how to balance the…

Salon Culture with Tina Ellen Lee

Thursday March 15th, 2018

Why must culture be central in rebuilding Europe? How does culture foster development of sustainable and resilient societies? Why should culture and the arts get a substantial financial support? Culture Action Europe discusses cultural policy developments with experts, policy-makers, artists, activists, partners and friends. Salon Culture aims to represent different voices of Culture Action Europe’s interest groups (community – network –…

Ten years after the adoption of the Agenda for Culture in 2007, a new European reality calls for its urgent revision. There is a growing recognition by Member States and European institutions of the contribution of culture to the progress of the European Union. In times of accelerated economic and social change, culture can play an important role in overcoming…

1% for Culture | CAE Newsletter is out

Tuesday February 27th, 2018

Culture Action Europe latest Newsletter is out. Read more about our 1% for Culture Campaign, why we have launched it and how you can support it. In his editorial “From Utopian Dream to Political Reality”, CAE president Robert Manchin talks about the most contentious European political debates that characterise EU political life every 7 years. MFF negotiations are just starting. This…

Supporting Culture is Supporting Europe: Sign the CAE manifesto

Monday February 26th, 2018

We are citizens and organisations who believe that culture is the foundation of European unity. It binds us together and underpins our sense of belonging to the European community; We believe that culture plays a crucial role in upholding common European values, nourishing mutual understanding among the peoples of Europe and fostering diverse and inclusive societies; We are artists, policy‐makers, cultural…

CAE Special Newsletter: Belonging and Becoming

Monday December 11th, 2017

Just prior to the launch of European Year of Cultural Heritage, members, partners and friends of Culture Action Europe gathered in Rome this November to collectively reflect on meaning of “belonging” and “becoming”. How can we, as artists and cultural operators, engaged citizens and policy makers, rationalists and visionaries, develop an inclusive belonging? How can we on all levels – local,…

The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 takes off

Thursday December 7th, 2017

Today the celebrations for the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage are kicking off at the European Culture Forum in Milan. The European Year of Cultural Heritage will put the spotlight on Europe’s wealth of cultural heritage, showcasing its role in fostering a shared sense of identity and building the future of Europe Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth, and Sport,…