CULTURE IN MOTION The Culture Programme 2007-2013 Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008 ISBN 978-92-79-09513-9 © European Communities, 2008 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE -FREE P A P ER The Culture Programme • Culture in motion • 2007-2013 Foreword Culture in motion The European Union (EU) is often unfairly accused of only being concerned with the market and with economics. Unfortunately all too little is known about the many other things the EU does, including its contribution to making Europe a fairer, more equal and more creative place to live and work. Ján Figel' This is why we are presenting this brochure, which presents a snapshot of the Member of the Euro- projects funded by the EU’s Culture Programme. The Programme has a budget pean Commission in of 400 million euros for the 2007-2013 period. It will enable hundreds of cultural charge of education, operators and many thousands of individuals to take part in trans-national cultural training, culture and cooperation projects, and to reach people throughout Europe. youth You will find examples of projects promoting the mobility of artists and their works, increasing access to our common cultural heritage, promoting the creativity of young people through innovative cultural education initiatives, and developing the capacities of cultural professionals. You will also find initiatives promoting intercultural dialogue, a topic of key importance in our increasingly diverse socie- ties. It is one of the main objectives of the programme, and will help to ensure that it remains a priority beyond 2008, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. We are currently witnessing an exciting time, as in May 2007 the Commis- sion proposed its first real strategy for culture at the European level. This was endorsed by the Council and has resulted in the Commission, Member States and stakeholders in the cultural sector agreeing on a common set of objectives to be achieved in partnership. The projects showcased here have been selected with a view to showing how the Culture Programme contributes to this new European agenda. One of the priorities of the new Agenda is promoting creativity, now acknowledged to be the essential prerequisite of any knowledge-based, modern society. In recognition of this, 2009 will be the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Many of the projects shown here help foster this process. I believe that this is more than just another brochure. I hope that the projects presented here may have a long-lasting effect by inspiring you to work with others in projects opening up our cultural life to audiences beyond national borders. I hope you enjoy reading it. w 1 Contents Introduction 4 The Culture Programme 2007-2013 5 Enhanced danceWEB-Europe 9 DÉPARTS: Investing in a new dance generation 10 MAP XXL Creative mobility 11 European Jazz Orchestra—Swinging Europe 12 Chain of Dance events: keðja — dance encounters 2008-2010 13 The Chamber Orchestra of Europe 14 Cultural Intersections, Mobility, Education and Tradition (CIMET) 15 European Festivals Association — Giving festivals a voice! 16 Circostrada Network 17 Mobile Lab for Theatre and Communication 18 Dream Factories 19 Revealing culture between sound and silence: Cultural mobility of deaf artists of Europe 21 Small size, the net 22 Creative ways to Mozart 23 gau:di (Governance, Architecture and Urbanism: a Democratic Interaction) 24 The Great Dragons Parade — European Myths and Legends 25 Revitalising built heritage 27 Repairing Armenia’s musical instrument heritage 28 A syncretic heritage 29 Showing changes 30 Taking a look at Mediterranean Gothic architecture (GOTHICMED) 31 URME — Tracing Our Tracks 32 An oppoRtunity to lEArn by LivIng our past (REALITY) 33 Promotion of a Cultural Area Common to European Rural Communities 35 2 The Culture Programme • Culture in motion • 2007-2013 The International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation 36 History after the fall: The Indeterminacy of the Short Twentieth Century 37 Land of human rights: Artistic analyses and visions of the human rights situation in Europe 38 The power to elect: 100 years of women’s suffrage 39 Theatre reflecting world citizens 40 The future from a different perspective: Rencontres théâtres quartiers d’EUROPE 41 Cultural Diversity in Action-Banlieues d'Europe 43 TEMPS D’IMAGES 44 Inside installations: Preservation and presentation of installation art 45 European mobile lab for interactive media artists 46 European Network of Cultural Administration Training 47 Awarding excellence 48 European Capitals of Culture 52 Facts and figures 54 3 Introduction The Culture Programme has a valuable role to play in before the new policy agenda was conceived. However, as supporting Europe’s new policy agenda for the field of the objectives of the agenda were determined following culture. The aim of this brochure is therefore to present extensive consultation in order to reflect the priorities of some of the projects funded by the Programme which are the cultural sector, the majority of projects naturally have relevant to the priorities of this agenda. close affinities with the agenda. You will find examples of projects promoting the mobility In the space available here, it is of course only possible to of artists, the mobility of works, access by young people provide a very partial snapshot of the vast array of work to culture and synergies with education, access to our undertaken on the ground by cultural operators under common cultural heritage, digitisation, intercultural the Programme. Many other worthy projects are currently dialogue, and creativity and innovation. These themes under way, and we will fortunately have the opportunity are of course closely related and most of the projects are to highlight these in subsequent years. therefore multi-dimensional, addressing more than one of these topics. The projects cover a range of sub-sectors We hope that this brochure will help raise awareness of the and some adopt an inter-disciplinary approach. activities co-financed by the European Union in the field of culture across the Member States. We also trust that it will Some of the projects were co-funded by the previous provide ideas for project promoters as well as information programme, which ran from 2000 to 2006, and others are for policy-makers about concrete activities at grass-roots supported by the current programme running from 2007 to level which could contribute to their policy priorities. 2013. Some have already been completed, while others are still ongoing. Many of the projects were therefore designed Linking practice and policy: the European Agenda for Culture The projects and activities funded by the Culture Member States have endorsed the Agenda in the Council, Programme should be seen against the backdrop of the and in May 2008 agreed on a three-year work plan for European Commission’s ‘European Agenda for culture in 2008-2010 with five main priority areas: improving the a globalising world’ (May 2007). This policy document conditions for the mobility of artists and other profes- proposed three strategic objectives: the promotion of sionals in the field of culture; promoting access to culture cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue; culture as (the mobility of collections, synergies with education — a catalyst for creativity under the Lisbon strategy for especially art education, digitisation, multilingualism, growth and jobs; and culture as a vital element in inter- intercultural dialogue, cultural tourism/cultural heritage, national relations. The agenda proposes achieving these multilingualism, access of young people to culture); objectives through a partnership approach. New working developing data, statistics and methodologies; maxim- methods have therefore been developed with the Member ising the potential of cultural and creative industries, in States through a new ‘Open Method of Coordination’ and particular SMEs; and promoting and implementing the structured dialogue with cultural stakeholders. UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Policy meetings will be held in European cultural fora in mid-2009 and at the end of 2010, when the first 3-year cycle will be assessed. 4 The Culture Programme • Culture in motion • 2007-2013 The Culture Programme 2007-2013 The European Commission encourages cooperation Cultural operators, including cultural enterprises, can between cultural operators within Europe through both participate in the Programme as long as they are acting its policies and programmes. A total amount of 400 in a non-profit-making capacity. million euros is available for the Culture Programme over the period 2007-2013. Cultural projects can also Eligible applicants must: be funded by other Community programmes, including the Lifelong Learning, Youth-in-Action and Europe for •be a public or private organisation with legal Citizens programmes, and the MEDIA programme in personality, whose principal activity is in the cultural the audiovisual field. Funding for cultural projects is sphere (cultural and creative sectors); also possible through the structural funds, which are •have their registered legal seat in one of the eligible managed nationally. countries. What’s the general aim of the Programme? In spite of Europe’s diversity, Europeans nevertheless share a common cultural heritage and certain values. The general aim of the Programme is therefore to enhance this cultural area shared by Europe’s citizens through the development of cross-border cultural cooperation between creators, cultural players and cultural institutions of the countries taking part in the Programme, with a view to encouraging the emergence of European citizenship.