The new EU Culture Programme Creative Europe 2014-2020 was adopted in EP plenary on the 19th of November. The programme will have a budget of 1.46 billion Euros (in current prices, equivalent to 1.29 billion in 2011 prices). At least 31% of the programme’s budget will be allocated to the Culture sub-programme. The total budget … Continued
On Dec 2nd, Culture Action Europe, in collaboration with its member SMartBE is organizing the debate “The Welfare line, Encounter 1: Protection from Social & Economic Risks for Atypical Employment in the EU” at BOZAR in Brussels. The debate will present examples of different welfare models and social protection systems across Europe. Part of the … 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
In conjunction with Culture Action Europe’s conference “It is not a crisis, it is a transition” taking place on 4-5 October at the Faculty of Architecture of the 3rd University of Rome, other interesting initiatives will be taking place at the same venue. One of them is the 9th Congress “Virtual City and Territory” MEMORY CITY PEOPLE … Continued
On 10 July, the EP committee on Regional Development adopted compromises on the legislative package of the Cohesion policy, following discussions with the Council in the framework of the inter-institutional negotiations (known in EU jargon as the ‘Trilogue’). The compromise on the common provisions for all EU funds sets the allocation for the European Social … Continued
The website of the European Expert Network on Culture (EENC) now features a review of 87 documents published in recent years which address the social and economic effects and impacts of cultural heritage, including its tangible and intangible components. The literature review, prepared by EENC members Cornelia Dümcke and Mikhail Gnedovsky following a request from the … Continued