ENCC work programme 2008

The programme will be carried out with the support of our partners in Hungary and Belgium and partly financed by the EU budget line "Support to organisations which promote European Culture".

Main ENCC events in 2008, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue:

22nd – 24th May 2008 in Pécs, Hungary, European Capital of Culture 2010:
Shortcut Europe “Cultural Vitality – Mapping Europe”

10th July 2008 in Liverpool, UK:
Strategy Meeting: Reflection on and dissemination of the results of the Shortcut Europe – Policy Paper comparing European Capitals of Culture

1st – 3rd October 2008 in Brussels, Belgium:
3rd European Project Fair “2008 and beyond – European Cultural Centres live Intercultural Dialogue”

November 2008 in Essen, Germany, European Capital of Culture 2010 (Ruhr 2010):
1st preparation conference for the international conference “Culture and Social Exclusion” (working title) in the framework of Ruhr 2010

Network Services

Trainings on EU funding and project development in the cultural field in Tallinn, Estonia (March) and Sofia, Bulgaria (September)

Database of European Cultural Centres

Newsletter and Website

 

ENCC Strategy 2008 to 2010

The ENCC aims at taking up the topics of the European Years and to link them with the European Capitals of Culture.

The preparation of an international conference about culture and social exclusion, which will be held in the framework of RUHR 2010, has started already. In this respect, a first preparation conference is planned to take place in Essen, Germany in November 2008. Previous experiences of former European Capitals of Culture will be taken into consideration during the preparation process.

With the topic „Culture and Social Exclusion”, the ENCC wants to emphasise the important role of locally based cultural centres when combating social exclusion. Therefore it is essential that a pluralistic public cultural space is conserved and strengthened, in which citizens and inhabitants have access to cultural life in its manifold forms. Secondly, individual options of choice between different cultural and artistic forms of expression must exist in the process of the societal restructuring contemporary Europe is experiencing.

The European Cultural Centres offer both. The spectrum of their appearance, working methods and local conditions could hardly be wider. They are all traditionally open for new and different issues; border crossing and bridging – between branches and generations, regions and cultures – belong to the principles of their work with the citizens that live around and with the centres. By this, the centres are important and sustainable components for a functioning with each other in the European House – without social exclusion.

 

 

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