Events

Incubator 2025: Istanbul

Applications to Incubator 2025 in Istanbul are now open! Take this chance to bring your project idea to the European level and connect with peers from across Europe and beyond.

Reactivating local heritage: the HeritACT methodology

How can cultural heritage contrubute to shaping more sustainable and inclusive societies?

Visions for the Future: second brainstorm

Looking forward into the future: do you have a clear vision of where you are headed? Are you curious to know how other socio-cultural centres across Europe tackle this question? Then join ‘Visions for the Future’, a trajectory of three online brainstorms designed to help us collectively prepare for the future. This coming February, at the second brainstorm in the series, we will discuss how the socio-cultural community in Europe can implement just transitions towards a sustainable future.

JuST info session

JuST will be the backdrop to most of our ativities from 2025 until 2028. Discover what we have in store for you here.

Culturescapes: strategies and funding for a thriving socio-culture in the non-urban

The yearly webinar of our working group on non-urban culture took place on December 17th 2024, from 15:00 to 17:00 CET.

Closing the Gap roundtable six: Timișoara

The sixth and last Closing the Gap roundtable took place in Timișoara, Romania, hosted by Centrul De Proiecte

Sustainability at the Centre: making Culture and Environment meet

How can socio-cultural centres contribute to a healthier environment and to Climate Change mitigation and adaptation? Which are the impacts of Culture on the environment and how can a better environmental management improve the quality of life in a Cultural Centre and its community? Through our European training programme you will learn how to address these issues, which tools and which funding programmes are available, and how to become a “sustainability ambassador” among your peers. Apply now! Participation is free of charge.

Presentation of the Finnish model for accessible leisure activities

Children's culture experts Tetti Tuhkio and Pilvi Kuitu share and discuss a new tool that helps culture workers plan more inclusive activities.

Incubator 2024

The 2024 edition of our mentoring programme on EU project writing took place in Valletta, Malta, hosted by our member Spazju Kreattiv

Cultural Organisations and AI: Ethics and Practices

In September, we took part in the Creative Skills Week 2024 with an online workshop brought to you by our working group on Digital Ethics

Make it Happen: Community Building and Audience Development for the Future

How should you engage with the society of tomorrow? Who is your current audience and who would you like them to be? And how can you create social impact that builds a sense of community and belonging in our crisis-ridden world? In this international training programme tailored to your needs, we provide the necessary skills and guide you from theory to practice. Participation is free of charge.

HeritACT toolkit demo session

Tracing the Trails: for Inclusive Culture in Unequal Times

Our 2024 annual conference took place in Riga, Latvia. It was an exploration of culture's contribution to accessible societies, as well as a celebration of #30yearsofENCC.

Culture and AI: discussion with Femke Snelting

Just Sustainability from the Heart of Communities: the Transformative Power of Socio-Cultural Centres

On May 27th, 2024, we launched the final report of our research project on the roles of socio-cultural centres in just sustainability transitions.

Closing the Gap roundtable five: Broumov

How to pursue an ECoC candidacy in ways that are sustainable for local ecosystems?

Lights On 2024: Unlocking Sustainability

Closing the Gap roundtable four: Paris

The Seine-Saint-Denis territory and the Paris 2024 Olympics: what urban and cultural transformations can be foreseen, and how to ensure that civil society has a say in the process?

Art, Culture, Inclusion: Shaping Societal Change - Talk with Lisette Reuter

Catalysing Just Sustainability Transitions: socio-cultural pathways from non-urban areas

What could a sustainable future for non-urban areas look like? How can we ensure the transition is just and inclusive, and what roles can socio-culture play in catalysing it?

Visions for the Future: First brainstorm

The first in a cyle of three brainstorms designed to discuss challenges and share ideas on the socio-cultural centre of the future.

Closing the Gap roundtable three: Holstebro

The third Closing the Gap roundtable took place in Holstebro, Denmark, hosted by our member the Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.

Let's talk privacy

Our working group on digital ethics dedicated its first meeting of 2024 to data protection.

Territorial dimensions: towards an EU rural vision for 2040

What is the new long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas, and which roles do (or can) cultural centres play in it?

Incubator+ 2023

Incubator, our flagship capacity-building programme on European project writing, was back in 2023 with a brand new format.

Get started on Mastodon

Closing the Gap roundtable two: Cologne

The second Closing the Gap roundtable has been hosted by our member The Green Room in Cologne, Germany.

Lights On 2023: Sustainable Crisis Management

Joining the Dots: our 2023 annual conference

As cultural organisations, what do we mean when we talk about sustainability?

Closing the Gap roundtable one: Dendermonde

On January 25th, 2023, our Closing the Gap programme came to life with a first roundtable focused on the Flemish region.

Territory. Scale. Action.

How do cultural projects interact with civil society in non-urban contexts?

Lights On 2022: Innovation and Community Development

Make Space for the Future: our 2022 annual conference

Our 2022 annual conference was the first live gathering of the whole network since the beginning of the pandemic.

Spanish hub seminar on European networking

The Seminar focused on networking, sustainability, creativity, and catalysing the creation of a regional and Spanish network.

Incubator 2021

Wide open Spaces

What has changed over the course of a year in our advocacy for non-urban culture? Join our webinar to look at the present and towards the future outside of big cities.

Cultural Impact Now!

How can cultural centres and organisations identify the ways they impact society and stand up for their work and mission in times of crisis?

The Art of Inclusion

On October 14th and 15h 2020, we co-organised The Art of Inclusion, an international online conference on arts, culture and disability.

Beyond the Urban