In collaboration with Institut Français and co-organised in partnership with De Balie, Arte, Ouest France, and Le Grand Continent we host two public conversations in the series ‘European Dialogues’ on May 14.

ECF will contribute to the Beyond the Obvious conference programme in The Politics of Culture session on Thursday May 30, and present CrAFT during the Cultivating the future session on Friday May 31. 

For the fourth time Europe Talks will take place to enable online and offline conversations between Europeans from all backgrounds and paths of life.

In the week of the second anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, we collaborate with IDFA in the screening of 'Fragile Memory'.

Migration was one of the key issues dominating Poland’s latest parliamentary election campaign. Gazeta Wyborcza invited renowned experts and journalists to will discuss this topic as part of Europe Talks, a series of events meant to encourage EU citizens to have unfiltered conversations about the most pressing and polarising issues of today.

Since 2019 IDFA and the European Cultural Foundation present documentaries that encourage the public debate on Europe, in the pathway Life in Europe.

Science and technology alone will not save the Earth. The nature crisis is, in fact, a cultural crisis. The Sensing Earth Symposium invites you to an immersive afternoon of exploration and dialogue, bringing together a diverse range of challengers, activists, academics, and artists who are actively engaged in the intersections of sustainability and culture.

The 4th edition of the Forum on European Culture focuses on the meaning and future of democracy in Europe. The Forum brings together artists, activists and intellectuals to explore democracy as a cultural rather than a political expression.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), with the collaboration of Museums for Ukraine and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, have organized this conversation with distinguished Ukrainian artists and our director, André Wilkens as a guest speaker.

“We have become increasingly dependent on big tech for our media production and distribution in Europe. This means big tech companies can dictate the rules of the game." According to COS grantee Librecast this needs to change.

How are journalists and migrant-led media initiatives transforming the way we perceive, debate and report upon migration in Europe? This evening a broader group of (inter)national journalists, mediamakers and media-activists brought together by the Re:framing Migrants in the European Media launch their project’s magazine SHIFT!

The third edition of the Cultural Deal for Europe Annual Policy Conversation, entitled Culture is the new energy for Europe took place on 28 February 2023 in Brussels. The three co-organisers - Culture Action Europe, Europa Nostra and European Cultural Foundation - welcomed 135 participants on-site and more than 300 attendees online, in dialogue with three Members of the European Parliament and a keynote by the Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas. Ukraine was front and centre at the conversation, with the dire conditions of artists and cultural workers, the difficult situation for the cultural sector and the destruction and damage to heritage sites all in the spotlight.

The Cultural Deal for Europe campaign - by Culture Action Europe, European Cultural Foundation and Europa Nostra - presents eight proposals to put culture centre stage in EU's policies. On February 28, we will discuss these with the members of the European Parliament representing various political groups. You are invited to attend this conversation online and take part in an open and democratic conversation between the European policy-makers and the cultural ecosystem.

The European Cultural Foundation invited you to organise Europe Day events in and with your local community! It may be big, it may be a small party with friends, it may be online or offline or both, as long as it takes place on May 9.This year we grow our online platform EuropeDay.eu into a festival, with an events agenda prior to Europe Day, and an online (streaming) programme on May 9 itself. We want to bring thousands of Europeans together to experience and share these events. You join in?

Our Culture of Solidarity Fund Eunic Ukraine grantee Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden hosts the online panel discussion 'Decoloniality in Ukraine: Is there still a place for a ‘soviet soldier’ in historic memory?' The discussion addresses the possibilities of building a conversation about the uncomfortable past notwithstanding the resistance to the oppressor. It questions what artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners can do in terms of building complex, multi-layered and non-linear narratives?

The “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900 – 1930s” exhibition on 28 November at Madrid's TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary opens with two panel discussions.

In the garden of Istituto Svizzero in Rome, 𝗧𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀𝘁 & 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝗲𝗴 (co-founders of the Amsterdam-based architectural practice Studio Wild) are presenting The Forbidden Tempietto: a pavilion consisting of three wooden frames covered with paper sheets made from a selection of plants listed by the European Union as invasive.

Since 2019 the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the European Cultural Foundation present a selection of documentary films that encourages the public debate on Europe, in the pathway Life in Europe. Read about the 2022 selection.

We are delighted to invite you to The European Pavilion in Rome, a three-day artistic programme organized from 17 to 19 November 2022 in collaboration with Fondazione Studio Rizoma, and generously hosted by our partners Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Goethe-Institut, Villa Massimo, Villa Medici, Istituto Svizzero, Museo delle Civiltà.

Merged with CULTUROPOLIS: International Days on Cultural Rights, the 2022 edition of the Beyond the Obvious conference will take place in Barcelona, 16-19 November. Co-organised by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe (CAE) and in partnership with the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

Our first round Culture of Solidarity Fund grantee Teatr Powszechny invites you to the next edition of their Forum for the Future of Culture: "In the face of these crises and sudden changes in social and political reality, the definition of culture and the tasks and duties of institutions that create it have to be redefined." Join their festival this October 14 - 16.

'One day more' from 'A Wartime Diary' by Ukrainian artist Yevgenia Belorusets on show at the Citizens’ Garden in Brussels, from September 6 - October 29. Commmissioned by EUNIC Brussels and the Culture of Solidarity fund powered by European Cultural Foundation, the exhibition opens on September 6.

Decolonizing the Newsroom is a collaborative event taking place from 5-6-7-8 July in Madrid. The event gathers around 45 persons struggling for more inclusive representations of migrants and refugees in the European media sphere. The event takes place in the framework of 'Re:Framing Migrants in the European Media', a coalition of organisations coordinated by the European Cultural Foundation.

Europe Day '22 was filled with discussions on the importance of rethinking our European public space, the role of culture in building a resilient and solidary Europe and how the state of the European sentiment is evolving in different member states and much more!Watch an in-depth highlight of the day - including a highlight reel of the programme topics, the Europe speech by HRH Princess Laurentien and the launch of the European Sentiment compass.

Curious to know what The Europe Challenge offers? Join the Q&A hosted on Zoom on 19 May at 2 pm CET. To learn what the programme offers, work out how to apply and ask your question with Tim Leik, Deborah Wallers from the CentraL Berlin Library, Pandora Ellis from Demsoc and Nicola Mullenger, European Cultural Foundation, and talk about the Europe Challenge. 

In the context of the French Presidency of the EU, the Institut Français NL, in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation, de Balie and Arminius, launches a series of public programs drawing a different portrait of Europe to challenge its conventional representations.

Europe Day celebrates “peace and unity in Europe”, in commemoration of the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950. This year, peace and unity in Europe are at stake. Putin’s war on Ukraine has brutally reminded us how relevant the founding narrative of the European Union and of Europe Day is. For over six decades, the European Cultural Foundation has advocated for and invested in a European sentiment, a feeling of mutual comprehension and solidarity between the peoples of Europe. Today, there is no more urgent place to realise our European Culture of Solidarity than in Ukraine.The future of Europe is made right now in our response to the war on Ukraine. Therefore, our Europe Day 2022 is titled The Future is now! This year we present a hybrid off-line and online programme. We invite grantees, partners, friends and experts to join us.

The Democracy Pavilion for Europe seeks to re-energize democracy and tries to think it beyond its existing liberal model. It treats democracy as a desire and practical solution that contributes to the rethinking and potential revival of communal forms of decision making as vision and practice, with the arts playing a key role as an initiator of imaginative epistemologies and new ethics of living together within the limits of the planet. The Pavilion will start with an international conference in Ljubljana on March 9th and 11th, organized by the L’Internationale association in cooperation with ZRC SAZU and will unfold as an online pavilion from May 2022.

In the framework of the research on mobility in culture, implemented by Kultura Nova Foundation, European Cultural Foundation and MitOst within the i-Portunus Houses project, two online discussions will take place on the future of mobility dedicated to local hosts and artists and cultural professionals.

Online conversations, hosted by European Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with ACES and ARTES [UvA] and NewEuropeans, in the run up to Europe Day, May 9. Each third Thursday of the month, 16.00 – 17.30h CET.

Online conversations, hosted by European Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with ACES and ARTES [UvA] and NewEuropeans, in the run up to Europe Day, May 9. Each month at 16.00 – 17.30h CET.

Online conversations, hosted by European Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with ACES and ARTES [UvA] and NewEuropeans, in the run up to Europe Day, May 9. Each third Thursday of the month, 16.00 – 17.30h CET.

Online conversations, hosted by European Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with ACES and ARTES [UvA] and NewEuropeans, in the run up to Europe Day, May 9. Each third Thursday of the month, 16.00 – 17.30h CET.

What better way to kick off the new year than with this cultural event discussing how culture can contribute to Europe's recovery and to its green, sustainable & inclusive future? Do not miss the Annual Policy Conversation, A Cultural Deal for Europe, 1 February 2022 from 15.00-18.00 CET, this time fully online.

The Calvert Journal presents The Calvert Journal Film Festival - a journey across Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia through the lens of the region’s independent filmmakers. Taking place online from October 18 - 31 the festival brings you 35 films.

We opened the MediActivism European Hackcamp from a studio in East London. We used the methodology of Talkaoke – something in between Karaoke and a Talkshow – to present five cases in which activists and/or citizens claim their right to the city.

We invite you to share your photos European lieux de mémoire in your own surroundings on social media with the hashtag #EuropeDayWalks.