LIBRARIES

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.
INTERVIEW

Bypass, Not Battle: Sönke Zehle on AI, the Commons and the Future of Creative Work

Media theorist Sönke Zehle on why Europe's creative sector should stop battling AI platforms and start building workable alternatives — cooperative data models, a renewed case for public value, and why despair, not automation, is the real threat to young creatives.

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NUMO 2026 | Mobility program for Ukrainian cultural professionals

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24,000 EUR total funding for projects exploring how art and science can address urgent environmental challenges

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České Budějovice ECoC 2028 | Ars Biologica ArtXScience Residency Open Call

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Multi-disciplinary residency for international artists in Bordeaux

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OASis | Artist Residency in Le Garage Moderne in France

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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...

Report: Public Libraries as Europe's Overlooked Infrastructure
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

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...

Bypass, Not Battle: Sönke Zehle on AI, the Commons and the Future of Creative Work
Critical thinking has become an AI‑era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it?
Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?
EU opens bidding for up to seven AI Gigafactories in potential €30 billion investment push

Case Studies

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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

A Community-Led Heritage Model: Museumsverein Klostertal and Participatory Rural Culture

Inclusion

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

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
Culture is the far right’s secret weapon
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...

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The Right To Repair Is Now Active In The EU
Zeus's Mountain Joins UNESCO's World Heritage List
New European Bauhaus: EU's favourite green design projects to a public vote

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"