Contrary to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights: Confirmed conviction of Osman Kavala dismays European foundations and cultural mediators.

The final episodes of the Re:framing Migration in European media podcast have now been uploaded. They are a personal companion to and part of the Re:framing Migrants in European Media programme.

The Europe Challenge is an annual programme that brings together teams from libraries and communities across Europe to address social isolation, inequality, disinformation, climate crises and other local challenges by developing, sharing and implementing creative solutions with support from the European Cultural Foundation and its partners. This edition runs from January to September 2024.

New traineeship program focused on promoting and diversifying philanthropy with a European purpose, in close collaboration with Allianz Foundation.

Following on the success of last year’s edition, the Culture of Solidarity Fund is now launching another special call looking to promote the visibility and embeddedness of Ukrainian culture across Europe, in partnership with EUNIC (the network of EU National Institutes for Culture), with funding from the Government of Flanders and the European Cultural Foundation and additional contributions from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Czech Centres.

We are pleased to announce a brand new commissioning grant of up to 500.000 EUR as part of our European Pavilion programme. 

The 2023 edition of the European Sentiment Compass, subtitled 'Culture clash: Russia, Ukraine, and the fight for the European public', looks into how Russia’s war on Ukraine is a test of Europe’s values of openness, freedom, solidarity, and individual responsibility.

In their latest episode The Europeans Podcast interview Bojana Grujic of the Novi Sad City Library in Serbia and Myrto Tsilimpounidi from the Feminist Library at the Feminist Autonomous Centre in Athens, both participating in The Europe Challenge that offered them support, resources and funding.

As part of Re:framing Migrants in the European Media tandems between legacy media and migrant-led community media have started. The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza published the first outcomes.

A joint statement on supporting cultural relief work after the Türkiye & Syria earthquakes by Cultural Emergency Response (CER), Prince Claus Fund, DutchCulture, European Cultural Foundation. 

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!