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Supporting Culture is Supporting Europe
Check these 10 reasons why culture matters! SUPPORT 1% FOR CULTURE CAMPAIGN BY SIGNING THE MANIFESTO AND SPREADING THE WORD.
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ABBA - Audience Blending by Arts
Exploring how to make culture more accessible and inclusive by mixing artists and audiences with and without disabilities.
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Beyond the Urban: Contemporary Arts and Culture as Keys to a Sustainable and Cohesive Europe
Our joint policy paper prepared with Culture Action Europe, IETM and Trans Europe Halles
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Letter of concern regarding the 2024 Creative Europe budget cuts

In the context of the annual budget procedure for 2024, the Council of the European Union has proposed to reduce Creative Europe financing by 40 million EUR.

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The Parable of the Irreplaceable Person
A psychologist and a HR specialist talk about how to support the mental health and well-being of cultural workers.
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"Bruised, Exhausted and Burnt-out"
What's the deal with burnout in culture ? Recommendations for cultural executives and policymakers
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Looking back, looking forward, by Raluca Iacob
Local cultural networks are helping their members survive the COVID-19 crisis and change the system. Find out how.
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It's out ! The Voices of Culture Report on artists' working conditions
Check out and download our recommendations to the EU for protecting and supporting artists and cultural workers.
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Wide Open Spaces Webinar Resources
Did you miss our webinar on non-urban culture? Watch the recording and get resources.
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Invisible Damage: a report on cultural centres surviving the pandemic
Our members across Europe warn against severe long-term effects on socio-cultural work, and ask policymakers for support.
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Open letters to the European Commission and to national governments on behalf of Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors

The ENCC has joined a pan-European community of 110 networks and associations of the Cultural and Creative Sectors in signing two letters which call on the full inclusion of culture in the European Commission's Recovery and Resilience Facility plans.

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Gender Balance in the Cultural and Creative Sectors: the Brainstorming Report
We participated in a collective dialogue with the EU Commission about Gender Equality, and ended up with 75 pages of recommendations! Check out a few highlights or download the full report.
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Investing in Europe’s Next Generation by Investing in Culture
The ENCC signed this open letter from 94 organisations asking EU leaders to support culture through the post-COVID-19 recovery plan and the new EU Budget.
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European Culture Policy Database

Initiated over 15 years ago, the Council of Europe/ERICarts "Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe is a web-based and permanently updated information and monitoring system of national cultural policies in Europe.

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European Conference "Artistic Processes and Cultural Participation - New Perspectives for Rural Development" - video summary
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Creative Europe - European Union

Creative Europe is the European Commission's framework programme for support to the culture and audiovisual sectors.

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The Appeal - The Power of Culture and the Arts

ENCC is a member of the European Alliance for Culture and the Arts. You can support the alliance by signing our appeal and sharing it with your network.

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No Sustainable Development without Culture

The European Alliance for Culture and the Arts appeals to include culture, arts and creative work in the the European Commission’s new strategy for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations.

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Culture at the heart of a sustainable Europe. Political statement from the Alliance for Culture and the Arts

60 years ago, the treaties of Rome prepared the ground for the European Union.

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Seminar on Social Innovation, Segovia, April 2017: presentations

A Padlet page with slides from several of the presentations made during the seminary.

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Seminar on Social Innovation, Segovia, April 2017: video summary

A short video about the seminar made by our host in Segovia, La Carcel_Segovia Centro de Creación.

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Statement on EU Communication "Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture”

The ENCC, member of the European Alliance for Culture and the Arts is one of the signatories of the Statement on the European Commission’s Communication “Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture”.

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Colonial Histories / Postcolonial Societies: On the Politics of Selective Memory in Europe, by Prof. Gurminder K. Bhambra
Final lecture of CoHERE 'Who is Europe' conference, Polin Museum, Warsaw, 23 November 2018
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EACA Statement on post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework

Discussion and negotiations are starting at European level concerning the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).

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Police raid at Globe Aroma arts centre - position paper

Operators from the Brussels arts sector take position against the police raid and arrestations at Globe Aroma arts centre for migrants on 9 February 2018.

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Press Release: Moving Beyond Brexit - Uniting the Cultural and Creative Sectors
On 24th September 2018, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels - in collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation and the British Council - organized a seminar on Brexit and the cultural sector.
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ENCC CUBE

ENCC CUBE is a Creative Europe-funded framework project that will encompass most of our activities between 2022 and 2024.

Project
Working Group: Cultural Centres and Non-Urban Areas
Defining and highlighting the role cultural centres can play in territorial development, political participation and social innovation.
Programme
Closing the Gap
Our new programme to build bridges between culture and local policy.
Event
Wide Open Spaces: #nonurbanculture after the pandemic
What has changed over the past year for culture outside of cities? Join us to reflect on the present and the future.
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UPscale Events
Check out these 5 outstanding sustainability projects by cultural centres.
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Shortcut Europe 2018 : "Exploring Cultural Spaces"
The 2018 Shortcut Europe meeting will focus on Exploring Cultural Spaces - those new and unexpected spaces that cultural centres are creating by interacting with and transforming their environment.
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CoHERE Living Lab: Mainstreaming Heritage Policy
We find ourselves in a moment of fragmentation and division in Europe that can be hard to reconcile with aspirations for valorising a shared European heritage. In this situation, how, as stated in the recent Berlin Call to Action, should heritage be at the “centre of the policies and priorities”?
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Online Advocacy Meeting on Non-Urban Culture
Join us to discuss why and how we need to support culture outside of urban centres.
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