Oulu, Savonlinna and Tampere have been shortlisted in the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture 2026 in Finland.
A call for tenders has been published to support the cross-border circulation and digital distribution of performing arts works.
The ‘Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture’ project is seeking professionals from a variety of disciplines to join its pool of experts. The expert group will help bridge gaps in skills in the implementing teams of European Capitals of...
Culture sector initiatives, such as those promoting cross-border cooperation, platforms, networking, and literary translation.
Audiovisual sector initiatives, such as those promoting the development, distribution, or access to audiovisual works.
A cross-sectoral strand, including a Guarantee Facility and transnational policy cooperation.
A locally-led initiative which provides access to thousands of rarely opened sites and unique events to over 20 million people every year.
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The Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) was created in 2016 to highlight outstanding diploma projects of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture students from all over Europe and selected third countries. It is granted every even year.
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The European Union Prize for Literature is an annual initiative to recognise the best emerging authors in Europe.
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Music Moves Europe (MME) is the overarching framework for the European Commission's initiatives and actions in support of the European music sector. Developed from a series of meetings with representatives of the music sector starting in 2015, Music Moves Europe was launched as a strategic initiative by the European Commission. It has since developed further as a framework for discussions and today it stands for the EU support for music.
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Here you can find project information and results of projects supported by the European Commission under the current Creative Europe programme and under the previous Culture 2007-2013 programme.
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European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) winners Jelena Lengold (Serbia), Faruk Šehić (Bosnia) and Lada Žigo (Croatia) will join Slovenian author Suzana Tratnik for a literary discussion at BOZAR in Brussels on 25 April 2019 from 20:00 until 21:30.
The discussion will focus on the extent to which their work is influenced by their Yugoslavian heritage.
A new mobility opportunity for artists receiving EU funding has been launched today. i-Portunus is a project, selected and funded by the European Union, to trial a mobility scheme for artists and culture professionals.
Headed by the Goethe Institute, a consortium of cultural organisations will examine how to implement mobility for individuals working in the cultural and creative sectors. i-Portunus will trial how to best facilitate cross-border mobility for artists.
The project will support short-term...
Five European Union Prize for Literature winners met at the Brussels Book Fair 2019 organised from the 14 to 17 February.
Jean Back (Luxembourg, 2010), Gast Groeber (Luxembourg, 2016), Isabelle Wéry (Belgium, 2013), Tiit Aleksejev (Estonia, 2010) and Ioana Pârvulescu (Estonia, 2013) — have talked at Place de l'Europe, at the Brussels Book Fair about the European Union Prize for Literature highlighting the prolific...
Debrecen and Győr competed with Veszprém to be recommended for European Capital of Culture 2023 in Hungary.
Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner responsible for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, said:
"In 2023, Hungary will again have a European Capital of Culture. After Pécs in 2010, it will now be the turn of Veszprém, my home town, to be in the spotlight for one full year. I am...
On the first Thursday of every month, new interpretations of popular Arab songs and traditional works are brought to the stage at Werkstatt Der Kulturen in Berlin, performed by musicians who have fled to Germany as refugees.
This concert series – known as the Arab Song Jam - owes its format from the black American jam session culture of the 1940s. The first set of the evening is presented by a regular trio or quartet, while the second set is open to all musicians new to the city who are familiar with a repertoire of...
