BAUTOPIA 7

In October Athens Becomes Europe's Testing Ground for Creative Resilience

From October 7 to 9, the European Creative Hubs Network's flagship festival turns three Athens venues into a live experiment in what "sustainability" means for culture and creativity — tested not only in materials and methods, but in the professional and political ground...
STATE OF THE UNION

SOTEU 2026: After A Year of Recognition, No Mention, No Delivery Yet

Ursula von der Leyen's SOTEU speech offered no budget, no Artists' Charter, no Artistic Freedom Act, reviving fears that last year's significant symbolisms are far from becoming deliverable. Now the sector must demand a seat at the 2027 Congress of Europe

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The Commission Rewrites The Rules for Europe's Capitals of Culture
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Open Call
Philanthropy

Call for projects that approach technology as a material for experience, imagination, and design

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Onassis Foundation | ONX Seeds Open Call 2026

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Public funding

Composer wanted for experimental film project in Montenegro

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Moving Classics Sonic Bridges | OPEN CALL - COMPOSER/MUSIC COLLABORATOR

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Public funding

EMMA' s Residency supports three international young designers in Pforzheim 

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EMMA Creative Center Pforzheim | Designers in Residence 2026

Open Call
Philanthropy

Grant of €10,000 supports underrepresented artists who are working collaboratively to uplift their communities

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The Supporting Act Foundation | 2026 Artist Grant

Open Call
Philanthropy

Grant supports nonprofits that are empowering underrepresented emerging artists 

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The Supporting Act Foundation | 2026 Impact Grant

Artificial Intelligence

Europe's Authors Call For A Change in Europe’s Mindset Regarding AI

EWC submission to the European Parliament's CULT Committee sets out a demand to strip back the text-and-data-mining exception ahead of the own-initiative report on AI in the creative sectors.

The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies
Commission: ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox Are Very Large Online Services
Meta Pays America. Europe Wants the Algorithm
Why a vote on taxing California’s billionaires is being watched around the world

Interviews

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

"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

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.

In October Athens Becomes Europe's Testing Ground for Creative Resilience
Europe Opens Its Doors To Heritage Under Threat
The coolest places in town: museums as refuges from the heat
The Right To Repair Is Now Active In The EU

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"

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

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

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.

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