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Stand up for AgoraEU: Protect culture, media and civil society

Culture Action Europe is organising a protest in Brussels on 29 October to oppose the 30% cuts proposed by the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU to the AgoraEU budget. Join us!

200+ cultural organisations oppose proposed cuts to Creative Europe

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150+ organisations call for a more ambitious budget for culture in AgoraEU

CAE joins a coalition of 150+ cultural organisations, networks, and institutions from across Europe in calling on EU policymakers to ensure a stronger budget for the Culture strand in AgoraEU.

Culture is being erased from EU research and innovation funding. How do we save it?

A coalition of cultural networks started the ‘Name, Place, Fund’ campaign to secure the presence of culture for research, innovation and competitiveness in the 2028-2034 budget.

Culture in National & Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs)

Learn about National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) in the next long-term EU budget, why they matters, and what action(s) can be taken to ensure a strong cultural presence in national plans.

“A demand for agency” | Culture Action Europe’s State of Culture 2026 is out

Culture Action Europe has launched the second edition of the State of Culture report. Read it here!

What could the EU Artists' Charter look like?

Over the past five months CAE's action group on working conditions, co-facilitated by Platform ACCT, wrote our contribution to the forthcoming official document of the Commission, the EU Artists’ Charter, that we expect mid-2027. Read it here →

A Sector Contribution to the Work Plan for Culture 2027–2030

Ahead of the next EU Work Plan for Culture, Culture Action Europe has developed a set of recommendations for the Council of the EU, shaped by discussions from the BEYOND Satellites 2026.

Graphic on a pink background with a small pink butterfly-shaped logo at top left. Large black text reads “Stand up for AgoraEU.” A tilted white label below reads “Protect culture, media, and democracy.”
On a sunny day, a large group of people in light summer clothes stand spread out across a grassy courtyard, most with their backs to the camera. They face a long red-brick building with a row of tall arched windows. Young trees and a large dark-leaved tree frame the scene.
A black-and-white photograph shows a diverse group of people walking down a paved, cobblestone European street or pedestrian walkway lined with trees and buildings. Some individuals are talking and smiling, and a person in the background holds up a light-colored flag. A stylized, bright pink geometric butterfly graphic is overlaid on the right side of the image, contrasting with the monochrome scene.
Close-up photo with a red monochrome duotone filter showing a hand placing a small paper note labeled "EMPATHY" onto a worksheet during a group exercise, likely a values-mapping or workshop activity. The visible worksheet reads "mapping" with instructions about grouping similar values together, and a circular sticker labeled "Values" is visible in the bottom right. A pair of glasses rests on the table in the blurred background.
image of a garden on a white background and with 'state of culture. second edition' written underneath in the right corner.
Graphic with a pink background and an orange square in the top left reading "Ask, Pay, Trust." Large black text on the right reads "Towards the EU Artists' Charter: A Sector Blueprint."
Title slide: 'A sector contribution to the work plan for culture 2027–2030,' with the Culture Action Europe logo and a black-and-white illustration of flowers, roots, and insects.

New large-scale EU project to promote culture and health

Under the title, “CultureForHealth”, the partnership will run from December 2021 to May 2023 and investigate and develop the field within five areas. It will improve the exchange of knowledge, experience and success stories in the EU related to the role of culture in well-being and health, identify the most relevant existing practices, improve opportunities for actors in the field, carry out at least five smaller pilot projects and make a set of policy recommendations.

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Academy Camp 3 for Veszprém-Balaton 2023

The third Academy Camp organised within the framework of the Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture (ECoC) project will take place from 24 to 26 November 2021 under the theme “Enhancing European and international cooperation of European Capitals of Culture”.

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New publication: Freedom of Artistic Expression in the European Union

The Freedom of Artistic Expression in the European Union publication presented by the Greens/European Free Alliance Group and Culture Action Europe, commissioned by MEP Diana Riba i Giner, offers a general overview of the global and European legislative framework and case-law, outlining further possible courses of action aiming at strengthening the legal protection of FoAE at a European level.

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SHIFT Partners’ joint letter on climate action

This letter of intent describes the joint ambition of the nine cultural networks and platforms which make up the SHIFT Culture Erasmus+ co-funded project to systematically reduce the ecological footprint of their organisations and activities and to improve their resilience in the face of climate change, working on both mitigation and adaptation.

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