DIGITAL SAFETY

The Commission Releases The Second Version of The Digital Age Verification Blueprint

The European Commission has unveiled the updated blueprint for an age verification system for digital platforms. Five EU countries will pilot the solution in 2025 using a secure 'mini wallet' compatible with Digital Identity Wallets. While the initiative aims to protect adolescents online, privacy groups fear potential loss of freedoms.
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE

European Capital of Culture brings Visitors, Investment and Long-term Benefits

€3-5 million annual EU support on ECoC leveraged about €900 million in cultural investment. Evaluation report published by the European Commission confirms that at its 40th anniversary, the ECoC “remains an impactful, cost-efficient and highly relevant driver of cultural and social transformation across Europe”.

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 spotlights Culture and Politics
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Gasworks Residency for Palestinian Artists 2026
Jane Austen and theory of mind: how literary fiction sharpens your ‘mindreading’ skills
2025 European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards: Tradition, Innovation and Sustainability
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Be part of the Music Tech Europe Academy 2025
Acropolis Parthenon free of scaffolding after decades, but only for a month
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EMMA's Residency supports three young designers working the fields of jewellery, fashion, accessories, and more

EMMA - Kreativzentrum Pforzheim | Designers in Residence

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ECCCH's new EU-funded digital platform connects Cultural Heritage Institutions across Europe with €29,800 per project

ECCCH | Second Call – Engagement and Collaboration

Working Conditions

Lars Ebert, CAE: “Artists must be free and Culture instrumental, - but not instrumentalised”

Starting from the newly launched ‘Sector Blueprint’, CU talks with Lars Ebert, Secretary General of Culture Action Europe, on the upcoming Culture Compass, the AgoraEU and cultural funding in the MFF 2028-2034. Lars responds about instrumentalising culture, the necessity to talk about security, post-MONDIACULT 2025 expectations and CCS’ next steps. Read on.   

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?
Breakthrough: Basic Income Scheme in Ireland Goes Permanent in 2026
Culture as Cure: A New EU Report Challenges Our Perception of Health
Fiscal Prudence at What Cost? Networks Reject Proposed Cuts to Culture
Greening

NEB Prizes 2025: Affordable housing, an edible school and therapeutic sculpture!

NEB prizes 2025 included new intros and awarded four winners under the NEB Affordable Housing prize and 20 prizes under the NEB Boost for Small Municipalities. The Public voted for an edible school in Portugal and a therapeutic sculpture project in Italy.

Culture: the missing SDG, UNESCO’s landmark report is out!
Have your Say on New European Bauhaus!
Routes of Belonging: Mapping Europe's Living Heritage
European Heritage Days 2025: Architectural Heritage celebrations in September

Inclusion

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Filmmakers' pledge to boycott Israeli institutions complicit in genocide

Matej Drlička: We need a European Artistic Freedom Act

Documenta 16 announced an all-women Artistic Team

Bending the Rule of Law: Slovakia's Anti-Corruption Reforms Under Scrutiny by CoE

Artificial Intelligence

New EU AI Rules: What You Need to Know And Why The Ecosystem Objects To Them

The EU's AI Act requires transparency and copyright compliance for AI models, as well as risk assessments. Obligations are defined by computational power thresholds, with the aim of balancing innovation with the mitigation of systemic risks. However, stakeholders are disappointed.

2025 Strategic Foresight Report: AI aligned with dignity, fairness and solidarity?
European Creative Skills Week 2025: Create. Transform. Regenerate!
AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test − and it’s changing our relationship with art
Movement signatures: how we move, gesture and use facial expressions could be as unique as a fingerprint

Ukraine Crisis

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Creative Europe Funding for Four Ukrainian - European collaboration projects

From Insight to Impact: Powering Quality Journalism with Audience Data

International exchange programme for Ukrainian professionals in Matera

New EU Report: Ukraine Heritage Fund Needs $524 Billion for Restoration