SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTS

Europe's Artists Are Rebuilding Trust in Fractured Communities. But Who Should Pay For it?

A new study of "socially engaged arts" documents a field that funders and policymakers say they want to support – yet one that consistently falls between arts and social-policy budgets, at a time when both are under pressure across Europe
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Mobility Innovation

Artificial Anonymous: Rehearsing Conversations Between Humans and AI

Artist Artem Konevskikh and dramaturg Marina Orlova used a Creative FLIP residency to prototype "Artificial Anonymous," a performative support-group encounter pairing humans with "dysfunctional" AI chatbots—testing conversation architecture, dramaturgy, and the ethics of machine-human emotional exchange.

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Connections Through Culture: International Collaboration Grants 2026
Culture is the far right’s secret weapon
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Call for Community Music Projects for the Day of the Mediterranean
Where Art, Technology and Rural Life Meet: Maajaam’s Model for Regenerative Cultural Practice
Can we map The Odyssey? How ancient geographers and modern researchers have traced Odysseus’s travels
Social Media Age Restrictions Closer In Europe After Expert Group Hands In Its Finding
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A call dedicated to artistic research and development of mid- career choreographers

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DRIFT | Open Call for Mid-Career Choreographers

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Apply to research the current state of vulnerable crafts and propose strategies to safeguard them

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European Crafts Alliance | Research Proposals: Rare and Endangered Crafts Across Europe

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Philanthropy

Funding for authors who document reality in contexts of war, censorship or severe political tension

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Kometa | Fellowship Programme for Journalists, Writers or Photographers

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ZMINA Resilience aims to expand the visibility of cultural cooperation projects by Ukrainian and Creative Europe Organizations

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ZMINA:Resilience | Support for International Showcasing of co-creation projects

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Philanthropy

Loewe Foundation celebrates excellence in craftsmanship with a €50,000 prize



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Loewe Foundation | Craft Prize 2027

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Glenn Micallef: Agora EU will be a place where culture, media and EU values meet

In his first interview with Creatives Unite Commissioner Glenn Micallef said the 'Europe for Culture' declaration is a 'strong signal of the importance of culture at the European level' He defended the merging of the Creative Europe programme into a new Agora EU...

70+ Cultural Organizations Are Calling For A stronger AgoraEU Programme for Culture
Name, Place Fund Campaign Open Letter to the Irish Presidency of the Council
Digital Skills Champions Awarded As Report Warns of 2030 Shortfall In Critical Categories
In a Historic First, EU Institutions Commit to Place Culture at The Heart of Policy

Interviews

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"If AI is here, it should be a public resource": a conversation with Heritiana Ranaivoson

Kristin Danielsen: Culture Is a Method, Not a Product

Nina George: Stolen Words Are Stolen Futures

Talking Finance With Arthur Steiner On Impact investing

Artificial Intelligence

Social Media Age Restrictions Closer In Europe After Expert Group Hands In Its Finding

The European Commission is preparing to restrict children's access to social media after a panel of experts convened by Ursula von der Leyen concluded that technology platforms rather than parents or regulators should have to prove their services are safe for young users...

Artificial Anonymous: Rehearsing Conversations Between Humans and AI
"If AI is here, it should be a public resource": a conversation with Heritiana Ranaivoson
Why the world needs the UN to keep an eye on AI
AI Reads Herculaneum's Sealed Scroll for the First Time

Case Studies

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Artificial Anonymous: Rehearsing Conversations Between Humans and AI

Where Art, Technology and Rural Life Meet: Maajaam’s Model for Regenerative Cultural Practice

Street Radio Futures: Finding a Collective Voice

Growing a Cultural Ecosystem in Rural Lithuania: The Model of Anykščiai Art Incubator

Inclusion

Brussels moves to strip Venice Biennale of €2 million over return of Russian pavilion

European Commission formally recommends termination of grant after four-month stand-off over Moscow's readmission; final decision rests with EU culture agency

Europe's Artists Are Rebuilding Trust in Fractured Communities. But Who Should Pay For it?
Culture is the far right’s secret weapon
Marjane Satrapi, the woman who helped the world understand Iran
Serbia's Artists Call for International Boycott of Expo 2027 as Cultural Repression Deepens
Greening

Registrations are now open for BAUTOPIA Festival in Athens

The Bautopia event organised annually by ECHN turns into a culture and creativity festival this year taking over a part of the oldest European capital city Athens and exploring various notions of sustainability The first programme details the initial list of speakers and...

New European Bauhaus: EU's favourite green design projects to a public vote
The Commission opens consultation on housing as Europe's building crisis deepens
The Islamic legacy built into Gaudí’s most famous designs
Velosonics: Listening to the City Through Machines

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"