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.
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The mystery behind what killed Botticelli’s muse: has a 550‑year‑old medical case been solved?

Modern medical analysis may have finally solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding the premature death of Simonetta Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli’s iconic Renaissance muse, challenging centuries-old historical assumptions about her fatal illness.

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Reading by ear: how audiobooks can help people with phonological dyslexia to enjoy books
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Martin Roth Initiative Offers Fellowships for Artists at Risk
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Craft Residency in the UK for Wood and Furniture Makers
A brief history of human pain
Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?
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Submit your podcast and win a 2,000 euro prize from TiFF

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TiFF | Podcast section of the Thessaloniki Film Festival

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Submit your Immersive/XR project to TIFF67 and win 2,000 euros

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TIFF67 | Call for Immersive/XR projects

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Funding opportunities for organisations creating more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful places across Europe

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EIT Community | Connect NEB & Co-create NEB Open Call 2027

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A tailor-made training program for young professionals in the cinema industry during Thessaloniki's Film Festival

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TiFF | Call for Applications - Thessaloniki Locarno Industry Academy

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Philanthropy

eidolon Grant 2026 supports contemporary and past everyday photographic cultures



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Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography | 2026 Grant

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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...

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
The Commission Seeks Public Views on AI Strategy For Europe's Creative Industries
Artificial metacognition: Giving an AI the ability to ‘think’ about its ‘thinking’

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...

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
The Commission opens consultation on housing as Europe's building crisis deepens

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"