Arts and culture will not be the same after COVID-19. The new situation would require new approaches and solutions at local, national and European level. We must be able to re-imagine the future, despite of the current social, health and economic challenges. Culture Action Europe and the European Cultural Foundation mapped emergency initiatives and measures … Continued
The European Commission has updated its Frequently Asked Questions page related to the impact of Coronavirus on the Creative Europe programme. Answers provided by the Commission covers doubts related to eligibility, budgetary shifts and match-funding and co-financing rates. Under the initiative of Culture Action Europe, European cultural networks, platforms and cultural organisations have been advocating … Continued
A call for a central place for culture in the EU long-term recovery budget Despite its historic relevance, the revised Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) proposal presented by the European Commission on 27 May is unambitious for culture. Member States now have the opportunity to show that a forward-looking strategy for the Europe of tomorrow does … Continued
Cuts to Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps are “bad news for young people and “send a terrible message to the cultural and creative and media sectors”. Reacting to the revised proposal for the 2021-2027 budget for the Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps programmes, CULT Committee Chair, Sabine Verheyen (EPP, DE), Erasmus+ … Continued
During the last couple of weeks, Culture Action Europe, the only intersectoral European network that brings together all practices in culture, has been in conversation with its members. The aim of this sizeable exchange has been to identify the main challenges the European culture and creative sectors are facing in times of pandemic. Interviewing both … Continued
The impact of coronavirus violently affects all sectors of society. Negative impacts are particularly important in the world of culture in Italy (but also elsewhere), where a relatively small number of medium and small enterprises operate compared to a multitude of micro enterprises and individual forms of self-entrepreneurship, representing the basic productive and professional fabric … Continued
Five weeks after their first video-conference meeting amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministers for Culture from the 27 EU Member States e-met for the second time, on Tuesday 19 May, chaired by Croatian Minister Nina Obuljen Korzinek. On the Council’s agenda was a follow-up on the implementation of the national initiatives taken to tackle the socio-economic … Continued
Tomorrow, on May the 19th, the EU Ministers of Culture and Audiovisual will meet digitally to discuss the impact of Covid19 on the Cultural and Creative Sectors. Following up on the first video-exchange cultural ministers had in April, this meeting will focus on further steps that need to be taken in the transition period, including … Continued