The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, in collaboration with the European Commission, organised an online conference to launch the New Creative Europe Programme on June 17-18 from the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos – where the Treaty of Lisbon was signed in 2007 – and the Centro Cultural de Belém. The conference featured speakers … Continued
The European Commission has adopted the main work programme of Horizon Europe for the period 2021-2022, which outlines the objectives and specific topic areas that will receive a total of €14.7 billion in funding (out of the 95.5 billion for the 7-year period until 2027). The newly-published Horizon Europe work programme is based on the … Continued
As EU and US leaders are meeting in Brussels, more than 100 organisations from across Europe’s and America’s cultural and creative sectors are uniting their voices to call for attention to the EU-US cultural relations, of particular importance to recover from the Corona crisis. The EU and the US are highly important export markets for … Continued
We are happy to welcome new members to the Culture Action Europe’s Executive Committee. Paul Dujardin (European Festivals Association), Celia Grau (Opera Europa), Niels Righolt (CKI – Center for Kunst og Interkultur), Katharina Weinert (European Music Council) and Julie Ward as a new Individual Members’ Representative, were elected at the CAE Annual General Assembly 2021 on 10 June. The mandate … Continued
Culture Action Europe (CAE) is the major European network of cultural networks, organisations, artists, activists, academics and policymakers. CAE is the first port of call for informed opinion and debate about arts and cultural policy in the EU. As the only intersectoral network, it brings together all practices in culture, from the performing arts to … Continued
The first calls under the Culture Strand of the new Creative Europe programme 2021-2027 have just been published, with fresh funding opportunities for cooperation projects, European networks, and pan-European cultural entities. The announcement follows the launch of the seven-year programme, the only one specifically dedicated to European cross-border cultural cooperation, after the green light by … Continued
Amplify is a project working across 12 European countries that brings underrepresented voices in the cultural sector to the Conference on the Future of Europe.
Last week, six political groups from the European Parliament – EPP, S&D, Renew, the Greens/EFA, ECR, and the Left – came together to organize an online conference on Cultural Recovery in Europe. As a result of the event, a joint declaration in support of a strong culture comeback was signed by all the six political … Continued