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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.

A letter to the network, with their eyes closed

We've sent you a love letter. 💌

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.

Compete to Create: How the EU’s Budget Is Debuffing Creative Industries

No support for creative industries in the next EU budget? The new MFF proposal debuffs support for the more economic dimensions of culture, its digitalisation and financial tools that help creative businesses grow. What does this mean moving forward?

AgoraEU Updates: What Are the Council and Parliament Preparing?

To coincide with the Cultural Deal for Europe Policy Conversation on 3 February 2026, Culture Action Europe shares the latest updates on the status of AgoraEU negotiations as part of the next long-term EU budget.

No Culture on the Horizon? The Uncertain Future of EU Support for Culture Research

As the EU negotiates its next long-term budget, the future of culture-related research and innovation is at risk. Find out why we are calling for €3 billion for culture-related research and innovation in the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

A conceptual collage of four diverse people interacting within a set of interlocking puzzle pieces, representing teamwork and collaboration.
A large audience sits closely together in a bright auditorium with wooden tiered seating. Many people wear conference badges on lanyards and appear reflective, some with eyes closed as if listening intently or participating in a quiet moment. The crowd is diverse in age and gender. White overlaid text across the image reads: “at the heart: love letters to culture.”
An abstract digital gradient fills the frame, blending deep navy and black on the left into soft turquoise, pale green, yellow, magenta, and vivid purple on the right. The colors flow smoothly into one another with a blurred, luminous effect, creating a sense of depth and movement. No text or figures are visible.
Abstract, glowing ring of light with radiating orange, blue, and yellow streaks against a black background.
Abstract digital gradient artwork with a smooth, undulating wave shape. The colour palette blends from deep blue and violet in the lower left to pink, orange, and bright yellow in the upper right.

Today (5 December) the Council of the EU formally approved the Creative Europe programme, following the vote in EP plenary on 19 December. The negotiations on the future programme supporting the cultural and media sectors will officially end up next week (11 December) when the two Institutions will sign the final agreement. The programme will … Continued

On 19 November, members of the European Parliament gathered in Strasbourg in plenary finally adopted the global EU budget (the Multiannual Financial framework, MFF) 2014-2020 and the programmes and policies that will be implemented in its framework. The total budget for 2014-2020 is set at €960bn in commitments and €908 in payments (2011 prices). For … Continued

The conference, held on 11-12 November in Malmö, was a Nordic Expert Meeting about Artistic Freedom of Speech, called to consolidate the growing movement to provide safe havens for censored and oppressed cultural workers. It was a  part of the Swedish presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, in collaboration with ICORN, PEN, Freemuse, Safemuse, … Continued

CAE’s member IETM, after its Annual Conference “Tomorrow” taking place in Athens, in order to underline the exchange, discourse and solidarity that took place closed the meeting with a Manifesto. The Manifesto is an impromptu collective action of Secretary General of Culture Action Europe Luca Bergamo, Secretary General of IETM Nan van Houte and Coordinator … Continued

Rome, October 15, 2013 – At 12:15 Culture Action Europe’s (CAE’s) Italian members performed the organisation’s first experimental flash mob in defense of culture on the bridge Ponte Sant Angelo, in the heart of Rome, Italy. The banner “Do not kill culture” was rolled out from the bridge and soon thereafter five silhouettes representing icons … Continued

On 15 November, the Research Center of the University of Louvain and the European Studies Institute of the University of Saint-Louis will organize the International Symposium on European Law and Cultural Policies. The International Symposium aims at clarifying the interactions between European law and cultural policies on the basis of three questions. The first deals … Continued

The resale right petition is an initiative taken by EVA – European Visual Artists, the European umbrella of visual arts copyrights organizations CISAC and GESAC, in order to protect the fundamental right of authors of graphic and plastic arts for a small percentage of the resale price that art market professionals pay to them at … Continued