The European Cultural Foundation strenghtens the European sentiment by developing and supporting cultural initiatives that let us share, experience and imagine Europe.
Our 2022 impact in figures
120
Partner organisations
Number of partners we worked with in 2022
220
Cultural projects supported
Number of grantee initiatives around Europe we supported in 2022
300,000
Europeans reached
Approximate number of people we reached with our projects in 2022
68
Years of experience
Number of years we have been around since our birthday in 1954
Stories & news
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European stories
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General
New Year message & work plan 2023: New Energy for Europe
European stories
Culture of Solidarity grantee European Digital Rights on why we need stories
Publications
Re:framing Migrants in the European Media
Programmes
The Europe Challenge for Libraries
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Culture of Solidarity Fund
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The European Pavilion
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Re:framing Migrants in European Media
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CrAFt Cities - Creating Actionable Futures
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“Support from the Culture of Solidarity Fund enabled us to produce The Walk – a theatre project featuring Little Amal, a 3.5 metres tall puppet of a 9-year-old girl. Walking 8,000 kilometres across Europe in search of her mother, Amal’s journey during the Covid-19 pandemic was enabled by relays of puppeteers. In a visionary act of solidarity with the plight of refugees, the project bore a single message on behalf of thousands of displaced children: Don’t forget about us.“
— Walk with Amal (UK), grantee
"Participating in the Europe Challenge has helped our local library to create a new vision for our city of Sant Boi de Llobregat, just miles from Barcelona’s busy international airport. By installing beehives at our library, we were able to champion biodiversity and experiment with our local community on ways of greening our city."
— La Biblioteca Jordi Rubió i Balaguer (Spain), grantee
“Over the years, we have collaborated with ECF on many successful projects - from i-Portunus (supporting green mobility of cultural professionals across Europe) to the European Pavilion (bringing together artists and thinkers for a pan-European alternative to the Venice Biennale's national pavilions). Working with ECF, we have forged a strong, mutually respectful partnership - and made a bunch of life-long international friends in the process!”
— Kultura Nova Foundation (Croatia), partner