Culture Action Europe welcomes the recognition of culture’s impact via the recent joint communication ‘Towards a joint strategy…’. It also welcomes the opinions being developed by the EESC and CoR, adding additional perspectives to this important topic. Culture Action Europe wishes to underline the following issues: In view of the diversity of involved stakeholders and … Continued
Culture Action Europe (CAE) is happy to announce that our application has been selected for co-financing by the Creative Europe Programme – Cultural Networks strand. This strand aims to support the activities of networks aiming to reinforce the cultural and creative sectors’ capacity to operate transnationally and internationally, and to adapt to change. The project will be implemented between March 2017 and … Continued
Today, on 29 March, 2017, the United Kingdom triggered article 50, initiating the process of exiting the European Union. We greatly regret this decision. Complex negotiations will now ensue to separate and unravel the intricate ties which have brought together the UK and the EU since 1973. We realise that a delicate balance must be … Continued
On 25 March, EU leaders and civil society came together in the Italian capital to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. Signed in 1957 by the six founding Member States, these treaties paved the way for the European Union that we know today: a continent of peace, founded on the values of solidarity, democracy, … Continued
The years of internal empowerment From 2011-2013, we held internal workshops to share knowledge of the relevant fields and thus raise the group’s own capacities, as well as to identify actions to support. We presented the work of the group to potential political allies and culminated our first two years by organising a presentation in … Continued
For the period of 2017 to 2020, ARJ will focus on two main activities. They both support our objective to increase the understanding of human rights in the arts and culture sector, and for artists and organisations to learn to read and respond to artists rights breaches. 1—Co-creating awareness: ARJ created two tools to … Continued
Robert Manchin contributed to a roundtable discussion organised by CAE’s member The Cornelius Arts Foundation, (TCAF) in collaboration with the Culture Capital Exchange and DataKind UK looking into innovative, digital and distributed data collection and analysis that could help to substantiate the impact of the arts. Roundtable discussion was hosted by TCAF on 24 March … Continued
Cities, well-being and culture in Europe links the measurement of well-being and cultural participation. How to use data dashboards to better understand correlations between cultural participation and well-being? The following toolkit gives practical guidelines for using the tools developed within the framework of Activity 3.2 of Culture Action Europe’s Creative Europe network funding. CAE: Cities, Wellbeing and … Continued