CAMPAIGN

Defend AgoraEU: Invest in Europe’s Citizens’ Future

Ahead of the European Council meeting in Brussels on 15-16 October 2026, a broad coalition of culture, media and civil society organisations has published an open letter urging EU leaders to protect the AgoraEU programme in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028-2034). 
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The New European Bauhaus 2026 Ceremony

The European Commission will reveal the 2026 New European Bauhaus Prizes online on Thursday, alongside 20 small municipalities picked for a separate award. None of the winners has yet been made public.

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A Blueprint For A Fairer Deal For Europe's Cultural Workers
Nearly 30 years after Erasmus, university alliances are reshaping Europe’s higher education landscape but still lack visibility
Free rail passes for 18-year-olds
Henriette Waal: Funding Creativity Like an Ecosystem
End Times Narratives Are Becoming Mainstream Again. Can Culture Help Us Go Beyond?
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Culture Moves Europe supports host organizations that wish to implement artistic residencies 

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Culture Moves Europe | Call for residency hosts 2026-2027

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UNESCO City of Media Arts awards innovative projects that connect the digital with the analogue space of Light Festival Karlsruhe

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UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe | dm- Award 2026

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EIT supports early-stage founders in Cultural and Creative tech to turn business concepts into legally established ventures

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EIT Culture & Creativity | Open Call for New Ventures in Creative Tech (Spark)

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Nordic Culture Fund supports ambitious ideas that need collaboration to be explored and tested in practice

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Nordic Culture Fund | ENTER Open call

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Residency in Slovenia explores the meeting point between nature, technology and artistic practice

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OASis | Artist Residency in Maribor, Slovenia

Artificial Intelligence

Vladan Joler On Counter Mapping And Creative Agency In The Era of AI

As artificial intelligence reshapes human culture, artist and researcher Vladan Joler uses counter-mapping to reveal the hidden material, labour, and algorithmic structures behind AI, offering a blueprint for how to reclaim creative agency.

End Times Narratives Are Becoming Mainstream Again. Can Culture Help Us Go Beyond?
Have your say in ENCC's upcoming policy brief on culture and the digital
Platform signatories publish latest reports under the Code of Conduct on Disinformation
The Commission Moves To Ban Social Media For Under-13s in EU-Wide Child Safety Law

Interviews

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Thanassis Moutsopoulos: Are We All Becoming Creators?

Henriette Waal: Funding Creativity Like an Ecosystem

Meta Štular: Inside the Industrial Rebirth of Center Rog

Vladan Joler On Counter Mapping And Creative Agency In The Era of AI

Working Conditions

Report: Public Libraries as Europe's Overlooked Infrastructure

A first-of-its-kind EU report argues that the continent's 67,000 public libraries do far more than lend books — and warns that funding, legal protection and data on them remain dangerously uneven from one member state to the next.

Defend AgoraEU: Invest in Europe’s Citizens’ Future
Nearly 30 years after Erasmus, university alliances are reshaping Europe’s higher education landscape but still lack visibility
Thanassis Moutsopoulos: Are We All Becoming Creators?
IJ4EU Impact Award 2026 winners announced

Case Studies

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Gaza Documentary by Oscar-Winning Israeli Pair Breaks Venice Ovation Record

Designing for a Regenerative Economy — HBKsaar's Pilot

A Living Cultural Ecosystem: Valmiermuiža as a Model for Heritage and Community

The Ground We Share: How Spazio Nour Turns Heritage into Community

Greening

The Commission Rewrites The Rules for Europe's Capitals of Culture

The European Commission has proposed a sweeping overhaul for the European Capitals of Culture scheme. Starting in 2034, new rules will switch the focus from a single year of festivals toward building long-term community legacies.

The New European Bauhaus 2026 Ceremony
Free rail passes for 18-year-olds
Henriette Waal: Funding Creativity Like an Ecosystem
Meta Štular: Inside the Industrial Rebirth of Center Rog
Inclusion

End Times Narratives Are Becoming Mainstream Again. Can Culture Help Us Go Beyond?

On the last day of the Bautopia festival in Athens Creatives Unite hosts a panel discussion on a relevant and up-to-date topic at the intersection of culture and politics end-times narratives and what culture's role may be in a future that is described...

Gaza Documentary by Oscar-Winning Israeli Pair Breaks Venice Ovation Record
Reading by ear: how audiobooks can help people with phonological dyslexia to enjoy books
Europe Pauses To Remember The Roma And Sinti Genocide
Brussels moves to strip Venice Biennale of €2 million over return of Russian pavilion

Ukraine Crisis

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Rebuilding War-Torn Ukraine with Renewable, Community-Led Materials

From Insight to Impact: Powering Quality Journalism with Audience Data

Commissioner Micallef in Rome to build financial support for multilateralism through culture and cultural heritage

G. Micallef: "Ukraine's future is Europe's future. And culture belongs at the center of that future"