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EU leaders sign ambitious Joint Declaration on Culture

EU institutions have signed the Joint Declaration on culture, agreeing a long-term strategic vision for culture at the heart of Europe.

The Council’s MFF budget proposal: bad news for AgoraEU

The Council has unveiled its proposed budget allocations for the next long-term EU budget and it’s bad news: a 33% reduction in budget for AgoraEU compared to the Parliament’s position.

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.

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.

European leaders Roberta Metsola, Nikos Christodoulides, and Ursula von der Leyen stand side-by-side smiling while jointly holding a dark blue document folder embossed with the European Union stars. They are formally dressed and positioned in front of a backdrop featuring several large European Union flags.
An elevated, high-angle view of the image shows a large, circular conference hall with wooden flooring and multiple tiers of seating where numerous people are seated at desks equipped with monitors. A giant, ring-shaped light fixture hangs from the concentric wooden ceiling directly over the center of the room. Digital display screens are mounted on the upper wooden walls, overlooking the formal meeting of the European Council.
Abstract, glowing ring of light with radiating orange, blue, and yellow streaks against a black background.

On the 8th April, projects of cooperation on small and large scales for the Creative Europe Culture Sub-Programme have been published on the European Commission’s webportal. Among the selected projects, some participants are Culture Action Europe’s members. In details: LARGE SCALE PROJECTS: – AVnode (Italy) as coordinator of LPM 2015>2018 – Live Performers Meeting, – … Continued

On Thursday 16th April in the morning,  the  Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament gathers to discuss and adopt its draft opinions on the TTIP (see below for the full text) and Copyright. The meeting can be seen live here from 9.00 am. The opinion the Culture Committee is expressing on the TTIP is an … Continued

Europalia 45th Birthday May 12, 2015 BOZAR, Brussels This year Europalia celebrates 45 years of activity and its 25th edition of its festival, organised every 2 years in Belgium. As part of this anniversary celebration, Europalia invites the famous South African artist William Kentridge to give a lecture-performance at BOZAR. The artist will provide insights into … Continued

MCP Broker | Brokering Migrants’ Cultural Participation Partners’ meeting in Stockholm, Sweden April 8-10, 2015   From the 8 to 10 April, Culture Action Europe will meet its partners of the MCP Broker project – Brokering Migrants’ Cultural Participation (Fundació Interarts, EDUCULT, Intercult, Eccom – Idee per la Cultura) in Stockholm to share findings from every partner and organise … Continued

European Theatre Convention, « The Art of Ageing 1st European Theatre and Science Festival » “Teatrul National” of Timisoara, Roumania April 16-19, 2015   ETC’s next General Assembly and international theater conference will soon take place in Romania, together with the  festival “The Art of Ageing – 1st European Theatre and Science Festival”. “The Art of Ageing” is a European … Continued

TEH Meeting 79 “Spaces of indecision” Manifatture Knos (Lecce, Italy), 21 – 24 May 2015 “Incontri del Terzo Luogo Workshops”, 19 – 23 May 2015 Application deadline for early bird fee : April 25.  Under the title of “Spaces of Indecision” the Meeting will offer both an international conference and a series of hands-on workshops on the concept of … Continued