EU cultural funding changes
The EU has launched Creative Europe, the new EU-wide culture strategy and the accompanying funding programme (currently being ratified by member states and to commence next year). The new strategy promises a holistic vision for the development of the creative industries in Europe, and this passes down to the proposed funding programme too; whereas before there were separate, biddable strands for Culture and Media, these will now be combined into a single initiative which will allocate up to €1.46 billion between 2014 and 2020.
The overarching mission for the programme is to foster and promote 'smart, sustainable and inclusive growth' across the EU’s cultural industries. There’s an immense opportunity here, but research from the previous programme confirms the suspicion that UK cultural organisations do not engage as strongly as partners from other countries. From the information available so far, the new programme goes a long way to addressing and surmounting these and other obstacles to participation. But how can London and wider UK-based organisations really get to grips with the opportunities arising? A good initial step would definitely to be to sign up to, and to read, the European Commission’s Culture and Education Newsletter and the European Cultural Foundation’s Newsletter; and to also subscribe to Visiting Arts’ E-bulletin, for information on the transition from the 2007-13 to the 2014-20 programmes.
(Source: AND)
The overarching mission for the programme is to foster and promote 'smart, sustainable and inclusive growth' across the EU’s cultural industries. There’s an immense opportunity here, but research from the previous programme confirms the suspicion that UK cultural organisations do not engage as strongly as partners from other countries. From the information available so far, the new programme goes a long way to addressing and surmounting these and other obstacles to participation. But how can London and wider UK-based organisations really get to grips with the opportunities arising? A good initial step would definitely to be to sign up to, and to read, the European Commission’s Culture and Education Newsletter and the European Cultural Foundation’s Newsletter; and to also subscribe to Visiting Arts’ E-bulletin, for information on the transition from the 2007-13 to the 2014-20 programmes.
(Source: AND)