Three years on, the new Creative Europe programme is finally on the starting line, following the green light by the EU Institutions, with the first calls to be published in the upcoming weeks. On 19 May the programme was finally adopted following a vote by the European Parliament following a debate in the plenary. It … Continued
This report from the Center for Music Ecosystems is launched at the SDG Global Festival of Action. Written in collaboration with a range of UN agencies and private sector leaders, Your Guide to Music and the SDGs offers a new model for thinking about the impact music can have on our world and how we … Continued
As part of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Presidency Conference on “Culture, Cohesion and Social Impact” was held on 5 and 6 May from the Fundação de Serralves Porto. This conference was a benchmark for the most needed public and political debate to highlight the fundamental role of culture … Continued
The second edition of European Cultural Foundation’s annual magazine Common Ground is out! This magazine is not about the last days of corona but the future we ought to build out of it. What can we learn from the last one and a half years? What can we do better and how? There is much talk … Continued
On Europe Day, 9 May 2021, the European Parliament in Strasbourg hosted the inaugural event of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). The EU leaders presided over an inaugural ceremony for the launch of the participatory process set up jointly by Parliament, Council and Commission that aims at engaging citizens in re-shaping the … Continued
It’s Europe week. As every year at this time, we take a moment to celebrate Europe, a symbolic space, based on peace, solidarity, democracy, inclusion, diversity, equality, justice, freedom and rights. These values have been the guiding principles for the European Union over the last 70 years and definitely should not be taken for granted. … Continued
The following recommendations present medium- and long-term policy solutions to address the needs identified in the Background Analysis “The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID Cultural Recovery in the European Union”. Its aim is to provide guidelines and principles to structure the contents of the European Framework, and hence improve the situation … Continued
On Thursday 29 April 10.00-16.00 CET, the New European Bauhaus Collective (NEBC), which Culture Action Europe is part of, organised an online conference “Common Ground: Making the Renovation Wave a Cultural Project”. In the spirit of the New European Bauhaus (NEB), a newly-launched initiative of the European Commission aiming at bringing the Green Deal closer … Continued