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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.

Reading between the strands: AgoraEU after Parliament and Council

Culture Action Europe calls for an AgoraEU that covers all cultural and creative sectors fairly, protects the cross-sectoral nature of European cultural cooperation, and provides more ambitious funding for culture as a whole. Where sectors have specific needs, they must be addressed consistently, not selectively, across various sectors.

Satellite BEYOND 2026

Satellite BEYOND is a series of decentralised, regional events hosted by CAE members that will take place over the next few months. BEYOND will travel from Riga → Las Palmas de Gran Canaria → Istanbul → Amsterdam → Skopje → Gdańsk.

500+ organisations call for an increased budget for AgoraEU

A coalition of 500+ organisations representing Europe’s cultural and creative sectors, independent media and journalism, civil society and democracy actors have sent an open letter to the EU institutions calling for a substantial increase in funding for the AgoraEU programme in the next long-term EU budget.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Socially Engaged Arts

Socially engaged arts are collaborative, community-centred practices where artists and participants co-create artistic responses to social, environmental, and political issues. But how does that actually work on the ground? We’ve put together a reflective blog post to explore what these practices look like in action.

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A conceptual collage of four diverse people interacting within a set of interlocking puzzle pieces, representing teamwork and collaboration.

Two days of extraordinary Council meeting to agree on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) yielded no results. EU leaders ended the summit on Friday 21 February evening without a deal.  Such an outcome did not come as a surprise: finding an agreement on a multiannual budget that impacts the expenditure of 27 countries for … Continued

Press release, 18-02-2020, European Parliament. “With fake news on the rise and diversity under attack, we need more, not less funding for our creative minds”, said EP’s CULT committee chair Sabine Verheyen (EPP, DE) on Tuesday. “The projected budget for Creative Europe is simply unacceptable”, said Sabine Verheyen (EPP, DE) in a statement distributed on Tuesday, commenting on the … Continued

After EU leaders called on Charles Michel to take the MFF negotiations forward with the aim of reaching a final agreement, the European Council President called a special summit on February 20 to discuss the 2021-2027 EU budget. Michel and his team anticipate that a deal could be reached at the February summit: budget negotiations, always brutal, normally require several summits … Continued

In February 2018, Culture Action Europe in collaboration with the Budapest Observatory and other CAE members published “The Value and Values of Culture”, a collection of relevant evidence substantiating the positive impact of culture across a range of EU policy fields.  We are happy to announce that this publication (executive summary) is now translated in … Continued

On the 29th of January the European Commission presented its priorities for 2020. The Work Programme sets out the main steps the Commission will take in 2020 to turn the six priorities of President von der Leyen into concrete initiatives that will then be implemented in cooperation with the European Parliament, Member States and other … Continued

Culture Action Europe believes that culture is the key in the development of future relations between the UK and Europe. On the Brexit day, CAE co-signed letter initiated by European Cultural Foundation, Allianz Kulturstiftung, Goethe Institut, British Council and Compagnia di San Paolo to co-shape the European cultural space together. Culture Action Europe looks forward … Continued