About Cluj-Napoca

About Us

Cluj Cultural Centre is a non-governmental organization for culture and sustainable development.

Legacy of the city’s bid for the European Capital of Culture 2021, the Centre implements an interdisciplinary programme to address strategic challenges of the society.

The Centre has 104 members: cultural organizations and institutions, universities, business clubs and clusters, associations of the civil society and the local and regional administration.

Our Vision We believe that culture makes cities present and human.

Our Mission We mobilize culture for social transformation and sustainable development.

Our Values

Building Trust We build trust in a world of empowered citizens, for a common good.

Inspiring Worldviews We foster creativity and innovation to resignify our present and imagine our future.

Being Contemporary We use the intrinsic power of culture to engage with today’s most relevant topics.

Valuing Everyone We contribute to building social equity, with arts and culture open for all.

Better for All We work together for individual and collective well-being and for a sustainable society.

www.cccluj.ro 104 Member Organizations

68 Cultural Organizations

14 Institutions - Create.Act.Enjoy - Creative Ways (TEDxEroilor) - Art Museum - Daisler - British Council - De-a Arhitectura - Deutsches Kulturzentrum - European Foundation for Urban Culture - Hungarian State Opera - Fabrica de Pensule - Hungarian State Theatre - Fapte (Jazz in the Park) - History Museum of Transylvania - Fascinația Meșteșugului - Institut Français - Fotopia - National Theatre - Groundfloor Group - Octavian Goga County Library - Lateral ArtSpace - Puck Puppet Theatre - Magic Puppet - Romanian National Opera - Matca - Students’ Culture House - Notes & Ties - Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography - Photo Romania - Transylvania State Philharmonic - Perennis (Transylvania Opera Academy) - Plai (ZAIN Festival) - Plan B - Pro Transilvania - Quadro Gallery 54 NGOs - Romanian Film Promotion (TIFF) - Reactor de Creație și Experiment - AltArt - Romanian Writers League - Apostrof - Romanian Writers Union - Cluj Branch - Arta Capoeira (Cercul Întreg ) - Scena Urbană - Arta în Dialog (Cinema Arta) - Scientifica - Art Image - Support Your Local Artist - Avram Iancu Patriotic Society - Transylvania Cultural Development - Boiler (Electric Castle) (Smida Jazz) - Carpatica - Transylvania Trust - Caolin - Union of Visual Artists - Cluj Branch - Cealaltă (Cluj Design Days) - Union of Visual Artists Cluj-Bistrița - Centrul de Interes - Urbannect - Circus Fairies - Victoria Film - Clujul Cultural - Why Not Us (Street Food Festival) - Colectiv A - Young Actions and Abstractions - Compania de Tango Cluj (Aici Acolo Pop Up Gallery) - Cortina Kids Events - Zestrea - Culture and Emancipation of Women Association - ZUG Zone 8 Academic Organizations

- Babeș-Bolyai University - Gheorghe Dima Music Academy 2 Private Universities - University of Agricultural Sciences and - Bogdan Vodă University Veterinary Medicine - Sapientia University - University of Art and Design - University of Medicine and Pharmacy - Technical University 6 State Universities 4 Business Clusters

- Creative Industries Cluster - Cluj IT Cluster - Transylvania Furniture Cluster 12 Business Organizations - Transilvania IT Cluster

- Business Women Association - Cluj Hotels Association - Cluj Hub - Genesis Lions Club - Cluj Startups - Rotary Club Cluj-Napoca - Employers and Craftsmen Association - Transilvania Lions Club 5 Business Organizations 3 Business Clubs

12 Civil Society Associations

- Asociația Cinegetică pentru Cercetarea - PONT Group Habitatelor „Valori Superioare” - Pro Vobis - ASUAD (Students of Art and Design University) - Romanian Chamber of Architects - - Cluj Guided Tours Transylvania Branch - Cluj Youth Federation - Romanian Health Observatory - Local Development Group - Social Circle - Noi Orizonturi - Transylvania College

4 Local and Regional Administration Bodies

- Cluj County Council - Cluj-Napoca Municipality - Cluj Metropolitan Area Development Association - North-West Regional Development Agency Our Way

In our effort to understand and perform change through culture, we designed WEAST, our five-step theory of change.

WEAST covers five phases of transformation:

W from Wonder Describing the situation we are starting from;

E from Explore Imagining, seeking new horizons, new possibilities of change;

A from Activate Testing and performing change in small scale;

S from Share Publicly releasing the new;

T from Trust Mass-producing of the new, replicating and scaling up.

Our cultural interventions move from one phase to another, evolving towards upscaling if successful or returning to previous stages if more experimenting is needed.

Change is finally possible when culture has brought trust to the society.

We act as a platform for cooperation and innovation. Our role is to bring together stakeholders from culture and other sectors to explore, experiment and co-create new solutions for collective concerns. Through participatory processes and capacity building, we support cultural and community actors to become actors of change in the society. Our Programme

Our cultural programme includes interdisciplinary projects in contemporary art, cultural and artistic education, local development, social cohesion, well-being, cultural and creative sectors’ support, rural heritage, social and urban innovation, science education and communication, international cooperation, research and policies.

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rom ebruary 1 on Working June 1 Seven artworks selected to rom August 1 on Art’n’Play October 1 Launching the third edition of the April 1 One Cluj (Un Singur Cluj) with the LEAP and MESOC be co-produced in the framework of children participation at the New Cultural Voucher initiative co-founded together with international consortiums to the Art & well-being project Horizons creative summer camps December 3 Annual Cluj the major cultural festivals of the October 1-2 Second annual meeting of Culture implement our projects for children in the countryside uture of Work city, in support of the Cluj hospitals June Concentric meeting on the Next in Leeds conference ebruary 8-12 Participation at topic of measures for culture at August 6-13 Children from October 2 Launching of the Cities und for the World Urban orum in Abu April 2 Online proposals of creative local level December Pata-Rât at the Telciu Summer Culture within Culture Next Dhabi activities to be carried out at home Culturepreneurs first School by children and parents offered June 10 Culturepreneurs 2020-2021 October 6-8 Pre-texts training workshop for pitching session rom ebruary 10 on weekly by Art’n’Play artists open call for participation teachers in the framework of Art’n’Play Partnership development August 8- A day in Remarkable December 10 Launching meetings with private rom June 1 on Stakeholder October Gipsy Queen film premiere on the April Launching of our Cluj Romania in a second village of the new Remarkable companies and relevant local, consultations for policy Jivipen agenda Resilience Tracker, to monitor how Romania catalogue regional and national recommendations to improve the local organizations respond to the rom August 1 on Launching of October 12-13 Creative workshop for young government bodies quality of life of youth in Cluj, within rom December 10 on COVID-1 crisis new social media accounts of the Roma in the framework of Jivipen the LEAP project Annual evaluation with Centre on Twitter, Reddit and ebruary 13 Artists Alexandra October 1 Artworks exhibited in public spaces the participation of our April 1 Cluj Cultural Guide ready to Quora Pirici and Ciprian Mureșan join rom June 22 on Start of and museums in the framework of Inner Space members our residency programme as print, but postponed due to the collaborations with the local part of the international coronavirus pandemic museum to promote Roma history August 31 Policy proposals for rom October 1 on “On Public Display” December 1 ECCA cooperation project Studiotopia and culture the well-being of the youth as a exhibition of the ECCA Archive institutional planning April 16 irst survey on the impact result of LEAP project booklet October 1-16 orum of the Academy of Change ebruary 2 Open Projects Day on the COVID-1 crisis on cultural rom June 2 on Mid-year and New Members Info Session organisations completed evaluation and planning updates October 22-23 New edition of the Culture and December 18 End of the events for the local community Well-being orum year Members’ Assembly. 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Academy of Change is our platform for strengthening the cultural sector.

Activities on the Academy’s agenda include training and coaching for artists and cultural workers, a cultural mediation specialisation programme, an experimental programme for business and culture collaboration, an artist- in-residence scheme, and the cultural voucher - an initiative to increase access to culture.

The Academy facilitates connections and knowledge sharing among cultural practitioners through workshops, conferences, exchange programmes, and networking events such as the Concentric meetings, the annual Forum for cultural mediation and Culture 2030 - an international event dedicated to cultural policies.

www.academiaschimbarii.ro Project Highlights We launch the cultural July 2017 mediation programme with a training course on audience The cultural mediation engagement. programme organized around the Vision as Memory exhibition enables 200 children to engage November 2018 in learning activities around contemporary arts. We start Concentric - a series March 2019 of meetings dedicated to exchange and networking for our member organisations. We partner with the Romanian representation at the Venice Art April 2019 Biennale to select and train the art mediators of the exhibition. People from vulnerable groups and first year students receive The first edition of the Forum of October 2019 free attendance passes at the Academy of Change, bringing cultural venues and events in together over 100 professionals the city - the Cultural Voucher. from the cultural and educational sectors, around the topic of November 2019 audience development and cultural mediation.

March 26 2020 We launch Artists Together, a movement aimed to mobilise Romanian artists in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. July 20 We launch a training and mentorship programme focusing on capacity building for cultural organisations. September 1 We start off the Business to Culture pilot programme with ten pilot organizations September 3-4 from the two sectors. We prepare the first edition of the Culture 2030 conference. September 9 We organize two tandem residencies between artists and scientists, in the framework of the international cooperation October 1 project Studiotopia. We launch the third edition of the Cultural Voucher, facilitating access to culture for new audiences. October 15-16 We prepare the second edition of the Forum of the Academy of Change. Art’n’Play

Art’n’Play is our programme for cultural education in schools, aiming to equip young people with cultural competences, creativity, creative thinking and life skills.

With ten schools in Cluj-Napoca already active in the programme and five others in the metropolitan area ready to join, Art’n’Play establishes a network of schools where art and creativity are offered as resources for children’s social and cognitive development.

The Art’n’Play schools host an artist-in- residence who works with students, teachers and the community around the school to develop artistic projects meant to encourage innovation in the learning environment. Teachers and school managers are trained in the UNESCO-awarded Pre-texts methodology, so they can embed arts and culture in the generalist curriculum.

www.artainjoaca.ro Project Highlights

September 2018 First five schools and five artists join Art’n’Play.

The school network February 2019 doubles in size. In 2019, our cultural mediation sessions facilitated by artists June 2019 in schools and cultural spaces engage 2000 children and Artists-in-residence students. and children co-create musical pieces, visual November 2019 art exhibitions, short animation films. First 25 teachers and December 2019 mediators are trained in the Pre-Texts methodology.

2020 From July 15 on Artists and teachers start co-creating STEAM learning activities, using art to approach diverse scientific themes, in the From July 20 on framework of Studiotopia. A research to assess the impact of cultural education on students' well- being is conducted. From August 1 on Artists facilitate creative workshops for primary school children during summer camps in villages across Cluj county. September 15 The schools network expands with five schools from rural areas of Cluj November 20 county. The Art’n’Play cultural educational model is developed. European Centre for Contemporary Art (ECCA)

ECCA is the future European Centre for Contemporary Art in Cluj-Napoca. It builds on the potential of the vibrating local art scene and creates a framework for better valuing contemporary arts practice in Romania. The project redefines the relationship between institutions and audiences, committing to accompany all segments of the public in a journey dedicated to critically exploring and actively involving the contemporary art practice as a model of knowledge production. ECCA is dedicated to researching and promoting artistic processes and works in the fields of visual arts, performing arts and media arts.

ECCA is coordinated in collaboration with the main contemporary art actors in Cluj-Napoca and with several key European institutions. In preparation for the future art centre, ECCA and its partners co-organize the Autumn School of Curating and establish the ECCA Archive, a programme to document, preserve and valorise artworks created by recent generations of Cluj based artists.

www.ecca.ro Project Highlights

The artistic programme “Breaking Views. Memory in Progress | Future on October 2017 We organize the Hold" features exhibitions, international conference public space interventions “In Search for and public talks. Institutional Models. Showcasing, Studying November 2017 and Preserving We host “Memory as Contemporary Art”. Vision”, a programme of multimedia performances, October 2018 contemporary art In partnership with Art exhibitions, cine-concerts, Encounters Biennial we and a choreography organise the first edition workshop. of The Autumn School October 2019 of Curating: “Making Conversation Pieces”, in Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara.

2020

March 9 The Archive, a research program dedicated to the documentation, archiving and digitization of works and documents of contemporary art is initiated. May 18 We work on the institutional planning for the future ECCA. September 30 We organize “Revisiting the Art Institution”, an international workshop on curatorial models and institutional practices. From October 15 on “On Public Display”, a series of events to open access to and promote the artworks documented in The Archive, November 2-7 is organized. A new edition of the Autumn School of Curating, in partnership with Art Encounters, takes place in Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara. Inner Space

Inner Space is an interdisciplinary project exploring the relation between culture and well-being.

Artists, scientists, health and psychology experts work together to raise awareness on the dangers that today threaten our emotional, mental and physical health. We explore how art and cultural participation contribute to the well-being of the city’s inhabitants.

The project develops a Culture and Well-being Think Tank, hosts an annual international forum and pilots design and artistic interventions aimed at individual and community well-being.

We aim that the city of Cluj-Napoca becomes one of the first cities from the region to include psychological well-being among the strategic factors for its sustainable development and an important centre of expertise in art and well-being.

www.innerspace.ro Project Highlights The first edition of Culture December 2018 & Well-being Forum is organized in Cluj-Napoca. The interdisciplinary Think-Tank is formed, gathering national and December 2018 international experts. The first artistic residence at the Emergency Hospital in Cluj enables artists to transform November 2018 the atmosphere of the space and improve the well-being of patients and health We pilot Unspeakable, a professionals. music composition workshop for teenagers, in partnership October 2019 with Notes & Ties. We extend our work at European level though Art & Well-being, October 2019 a Creative Europe funded cooperation project developed with Bozar (BE), UGM (SI) and Better Cities - a conversation Bruno Kessler Foundation (IT). between artists, scientists December 2019 and urban planners is hosted by the Culture and Well-being Think Tank.

2020 April 11 Artists from 19 countries submit 170 proposals for our international call for May 11 projects on art and well-being. We start a survey on art consumption during the covid-19 crisis and its impact on well-being. From September 15 on A programme of cultural prescriptions is piloted. October 15 Artworks exploring the relationship between arts and well-being are October 22-23 co-produced and exhibited in public spaces and museums. We organize a new edition of the Culture and Well-being Forum. November 11 Well-being experimental space is opened at the Emergency Hospital in Cluj. Remarkable Romania

Remarkable Romania is a network of towns and villages investing in culture and heritage as local sustainable development.

Inspired by the model of Sites et cités remarquables de France, the network supports its member settlements to give new added value to their culture and heritage, for the sustainability of the community and the region.

At the moment, the network gathers 11 small settlements, all in Transylvania, and offers them access to training, networking and partnerships, hands-on local heritage-led development planning, and participation in national and international programmes and fairs.

Remarkable Romania is developed in partnership with Sites et cités remarquables de France and the Cluj County Council, under the patronages of the Romanian and French Ministries of Culture. www.romaniaremarcabila.ro Project Highlights The first Remarkable Romania conference gathers 50 November 2017 representatives of rural settlements in First pilot activities take Transylvania. place in Sâncraiu, bringing together heritage, culture, October 2018 technology and tourism. First settlements join the network: Beliș, Bonțida, Bârsana, Bucium, Fundata, June 2019 Plopiș, Moldovenești, An interdisciplinary team Poieni, Ciurila, Vad and visits all the network Valea Viilor. villages and documents their historic, cultural September 2019 and social contexts. The Remarkable Romania The network is promoted catalogue is published. in the framework of the November 2019 International Heritage Fair in Paris and the National Tourism Fair in Bucharest.

2020 July 25 We run A day in Remarkable Romania, a programme of events and activities inviting inhabitants of Cluj-Napoca to spend a day in the network villages. September 7 We pilot Castles on the Someș Valley, a first route of the castles along the Someș river, to encourage sustainable September 20 local tourism. The annual assembly of the network members is hosted in Bonțida, in the framework of an Open Day programme of the village. November 25 We announce an open call for up to seven new settlements to join the network. December 10 The annual Remarkable Romania catalogue is launched. Jivipen

Jivipen, which means “life” in the Romani language, promotes Roma culture and supports contemporary expressions of the Roma life. The project uses culture to address topics such as Roma history and persisting inequalities, and facilitates new connections between the Roma and non-Roma communities of the city.

The project includes The Roma Culture Days, an annual event taking place in the framework of Cluj Days, and supports emerging Roma artists by commissioning their works. Jivipen also supports Cluj museums in their endeavour to establish collections and programmes dedicated to Roma culture.

Summer camps for Roma kids, a series of talks dedicated to intercultural topics and an international Think & Act Tank complete the Jivipen agenda.

www.cccluj.ro/jivipen Project Highlights

May 2017 For the first time, the Cluj Days includes a section dedicated to Roma Culture Days expands, Roma culture. featuring films on Roma life and culture, theatre May 2018 performances and public discussions. Access to events on the city cultural agenda is facilitated November 2019 for members of the Pata Rât communities through the Jivipen enables the Cultural Voucher. participation of 10 children from the Pata-Rât area to the August 2019 intercultural Telciu Summer School.

From June 20 on 2020 Collaborations with the Museum of Art and the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography to promote Roma history and culture are established. From July 12 on Jivipen Meetings, a series of online talks, offer a platform for audiences August 6-13 to engage in conversations with A group of 20 children from Pata-Rât Roma artists and activists. attend the Telciu Summer School, together with teachers and artists who facilitate a creative and safe space for them to play and learn. September 1-22 “Know the Roma”, an exhibition on Roma history and personalities, September 18 tackling less known aspects of our A creative writing workshop for Roma youth collective history is organised. is organised in cooperation with Giuvlipen. Cluj-Napoca Urban Innovation Unit

The Cluj-Napoca Urban Innovation Unit is a research and development programme, bringing together ideas, knowledge and resources from the civil society, the academic sector, the cultural sector, the business sector and the public administration to propose alternative solutions to the city’s strategic challenges.

Developed in partnership with the Centre for Innovation and Civic Imagination of the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, the Urban Innovation Unit is focused on R&D projects in urban mobility, future of work and urban resilience. In 2022, the Urban Innovation Unit will be fully transferred to the Cluj-Napoca City Hall.

www.diviziadeinovare.ro Project Highlights

We launch the first call for October 2017 groups of citizens interested in experimenting with redesigning The three winning of common spaces, to projects of the Innovation encourage sustainable mobility Fund introduce new behaviors. scenarios for the use of May 2018 these common spaces to the community. The Unit brings together an March 2018 interdisciplinary working group to develop the Mobility Pact, The establishment of and provides recommendations the Urban Innovation for improving the traffic Unit in Cluj-Napoca conditions in the city. is announced as a November 2018 partnership between Cluj Cultural Centre and Cluj-Napoca Cluj Future of Work, the first Municipality. May 2019 project in Eastern Europe financed by Urban Innovative Actions of the EU, is launched.

March 1 2020 Following the recommendations resulting from the Mobility Pact, the Local Council approves the first improvements to the April 5 system of public transport Cluj Resilience Tracker, an approach passes for students. to understanding how organizations in Cluj have responded to the Covid-19 crisis, is launched. November 12-13 A new edition of our Urban Dialogues discusses the tensions between drive for innovation and long term aspirations of behavioral Ongoing change. Co-managing with the Cluj-Napoca Municipality a 10-organization consortium in order to implement the Cluj Future of Work UIA-funded project. Culturepreneurs

Culturepreneurs is an entrepreneurial education programme dedicated to professionals in the cultural and creative sectors.

The project supports the creation and development of businesses and social businesses in design, film, music, crafts, publishing and other creative sectors by providing access to coworking spaces and labs, training and consulting in management, technology and societal challenges, as well as by organising meeting and networking opportunities with relevant stakeholders.

The Culturepreneurs programme is a key component of our Cluj Future of Work research and development project, co- funded by the European Commission through Urban Innovative Actions.

www.culturepreneurs.ro Project Highlights

The first edition of Culturepreneurs is launched, providing training and October 2018 mentoring for the development of 13 project ideas. Four projects are awarded at the completion of the first December 2018 edition: Art to Go, Circus 60 ideas enter the second Fairies, Gaming and Fotopia edition of the programme, Collective Festival. TimOrientalism, Art Crawl, Culturescu, Cultural May 2019 Productions for Education, and Support Your Local Artist Culturepreneurs joins the being selected as finalists. Cluj Future of Work UIA- November 2019 funded project, and tests new ways in which working in the cultural and creative sectors can be more sustainable.

2020 June 10 The call for participation for the 2020-2021 Culturepreneurs cohort is opened, aiming to select 80 project ideas. September 21 We launch the new programme of nine learning modules: From November 30 on Business Essentials (4), Artistic We design the Culturepreneurs co-working thinking, Digitalization, Innovative space, hosted at the Regional Centre for Audio-Visual Content, Custom Excellence in Creative Industries. Design, Gamification.

December 7 The first stage of the current programme closes with a pitching session and the presentation of ideas developed. Quantum

Quantum is a city-wide STEAM education programme (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) inspired by the need for a first science centre in Romania. Quantum’s role is to cultivate the appetite for science and innovation in the local community and to develop capacity in four major groups (teachers, museums, artists and industry) to engage in participatory activities and inquiry-based education.

We organize workshops and mediation programmes for educators and early career researchers, we run STEAM activities, including the Quantum Questions festival, and we promote citizen science through novel engagement formats.

www.cccluj.ro/quantum Project Highlights

Re-Think Plastic, a STEAM project encouraging recycling and repurposing of plastic December 2018 waste, is piloted under the Quantum initiative. A science communication April 2019 training programme is delivered in collaboration with Hackathon Heroes is Universcience Paris. organised together with the University of Agricultural Sciences and May 2019 Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca and Cité des sciences et de l'Industrie - The first edition of Quantum Universcience Paris. June 2019 Questions STEAM Festival mobilises artists, scientists and an audience of 500 people.

2020 From November 1 on Science is everywhere, a set of thought-provoking activations and installations November 9-19 are exhibited across the Art and Science Pop-Up Labs, an city, as an invitation towards interdisciplinary educational programme public engagement with co-created with teachers, pupils, artists and science. science communicators is organised in the framework of Studiotopia.

From December 5 on Learning Qub, taking the form of a community hub and a resource centre on a mission to research and design innovative STEAM education solutions, seeds a novel approach for STEAM education in Cluj. Culture Next

Culture Next is a network supporting cities to implement culture-led city development programmes and policies.

The network was founded in 2017 by current and former candidates for the European Capital of Culture title, and builds on the experiences, participatory processes and collaborations established during the candidacies.

The programme focuses on capacity building for members, organises conferences and annual meetings, and develops a platform for promoting member cities, as well as for facilitating collaborations amongst them. The network aims to become a voice in shaping European cultural policies.

www.culturenext.eu Project Highlights

Six European cities meet in Cluj-Napoca to draft the concept of the future network, May 2015 at the time named the Candidate Cities Network. The first conference of the network takes place September 2017 in Cluj-Napoca, where eight co-founding cities are present. Aveiro hosts the third meeting of the network, October 2018 now called Culture Next. The fourth network meeting is hosted by Debrecen, Hungary, May 2019 and focuses on the relation between culture and tourism. Three cities in Lithuania: Klaipeda, Plunge and Neringa, host the fifth September 2019 meeting of the network.

2020 March 12 - 14 Due to the coronavirus outbreak, our first meeting of the year scheduled to be hosted by Oulu, Finland is moved online. September 15 The ECoC library, a comprehensive archive of documents and reports throughout the history of the ECoC, October 1 is developed and published online. The network reaches 25 members, cities from various countries in Europe October 1-2 Second annual meeting is to be October 2 hosted by Leeds, UK. The Cities Fund for Culture, a cooperation between cities in the network aimed to support international cultural collaboration in Europe, is launched. Research

We conduct studies and surveys on the status of the cultural and creative sector and on the impact of culture in society.

For establishing a statistical cultural observatory in Cluj-Napoca, we make an updated diagnosis of the cultural sector and develop a methodology and a series of researches on cultural participation.

In order to develop actions and to propose mechanisms and policies, we also carry out research on different themes covered by the Centre’s projects (well-being, urban mobility, social participation, urban development, etc.).

www.cccluj.ro/research Study on the needs and Research Reports perceptions of students in Cluj, May 2019 in collaboration with the Faculty Work in culture and the culture of Sociology and Social Work, of work. The changing trends Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB). in how work is organized. Case studies with regard to the work in culture and informal work, August 2019 Culturepreneurs. The Faculty of Sociology and Social competitiveness of cultural and Work (FSAS), UBB, for the Cluj creative industries in Cluj-Napoca Future of Work project. and its metropolitan area within August 2019 the European context, Faculty of Political, Administrative and The impact of automation Communication Sciences (FSPAC), and digitalization on the labor UBB, for the Cluj Future of Work project. and capital in Cluj-Napoca August 2019 and the metropolitan area, Study on the well-being of Interdisciplinary Centre for Data in training physicians, in Science (CISD), UBB, for the Cluj collaboration with the Cluj Future of Work project. October 2019 County Emergency Hospital and the Public Health Department of FSPAC, UBB, within the Inner The audience of independent Space project. performing arts spaces in November 2019 Cluj-Napoca.

January 2020 We join LEAP, an interdisciplinary study on young people's needs and opportunities assessment in Cluj-Napoca, carried out in partnership with the PONT Group and January the departments of Public Health and of We become part of a Horizon 2020 Political Sciences, FSPAC, UBB. international consortium for inDICEs - Measuring the impact of digital culture research project. February We join a Horizon 2020 research and innovation action MESOC - Measuring the May social dimension of culture. We set up Cluj Cultural Observatory, a repository of data and research studies on the local cultural sector. June We carry out a study on the impact of arts consumption on well-being during September Covid 19 pandemic. A new series of Cluj Future of Work 2020 reports provide an updated outline of the labor landscape in Cluj-Napoca. Advocacy and Policy Development

Cluj Cultural Centre advocates for culture as a strategic factor in social transformation and sustainable development. We draft strategies, monitor the implementation of public policies, and carry out advocacy campaigns. We participate in local, national and European working groups, alongside experts in culture and policy makers.

At the local level we facilitate the dialogue between the cultural sector and the public administration, coordinating the development of local strategies on culture and creative industries, and bringing a cultural perspective to other local policies.

www.cccluj.ro/advocacy We coordinate the development Highlights of the Cultural Strategy and the 2013 Strategy for Creative Industries within the 2014-2020 Cluj-Napoca Development Strategy. We provide qualitative input for the profile of Cluj-Napoca in the Cultural and Creative 2017 Cities Monitor. A taskforce for the monitoring of the implementation of the Cultural Strategy is created; a mid-term The Urban Innovation Unit, a 2017 implementation report is delivered. cooperation of the Cluj Cultural Centre and Cluj-Napoca Municipality is developed as 2018 a mechanism to pilot urban innovation. We contribute to the improvement of the guidelines for the local public funding 2018 scheme in Cluj-Napoca.

March 16 2020 An open letter signed by 50 members of the Centre invites the Ministry of Culture to establish a task force with May 2 representatives of the independent We coordinate and facilitate a dialogue cultural sector, to identify measures to between cultural organisations and the support the cultural sector in the context Cluj-Napoca Municipality to address the of the pandemic. need to resume local funding for cultural projects after the COVID-19 crisis. May 6 May 10 We set up a working group with One Cluj (Un Singur Cluj), an initiative representatives of the cultural sector we co-founded to support Cluj hospitals and the public administration to identify during the coronavirus pandemic, gathers and initiate policy measures to restart 4.000 donors, 1 million lei, 1.5 million and consolidate the local sector. protection equipment and 17 ventilators provided to the medical sector. May 15 A policy document on Culture, Leisure, June 15-18 Sport and Tourism is drafted in the Stakeholder consultations are carried out framework of the 2020-2030 Integrated and policy recommendations aiming at Strategy for Urban Development of the improving the quality of life of youth in Cluj Metropolitan Area. Cluj-Napoca and Metropolitan Area are formulated within the LEAP project. October 2 Cities Fund for Culture, a collaborative pilot November 15 granting mechanism of ten cities members The Cluj School Network is established to of Culture Next network, is piloted. facilitate a sustainable transformation of the local educational ecosystem. About Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca is Romania’s second largest city and the unofficial capital of Transylvania. With a population of over 320.000 in the city and 430.000 in the metropolitan area, Cluj- Napoca has the highest cultural vitality amongst Romanian cities outside the Capital. The city hosts two national theatres and two national operas, 12 museums, a philharmonic orchestra and a very young and active independent cultural sector, with approximately 3.000 organisations and initiatives, including two centres for contemporary arts, and tens of private galleries and performing arts spaces. There are over 100 festivals and 3000 cultural events annually in the city.

Cluj-Napoca is a major university centre with 12 universities and an estimated 80,000 students. Each year, around 2,000 students graduate from art and humanities. The city has the highest economic growth rate in Romania in the last decade, with eight business clusters and more than 4,500 IT and BPO businesses employing over 35,000 people.

A multicultural city with 16 ethnic minorities and seven religious communities, Cluj- Napoca is home to numerous grassroots movements working for the vulnerable, piloting models of sustainable living and helping the shaping of urban policies. History of the Cluj Cultural Centre 2020 Announced as a first year for consolidation in the history of the Centre, with 104 member organisations, an executive team of 25 and an annual turnover of The Centre’s membership reaches 2 million euro, 2020 starts under the threat of the 95 organisations, twice as much as COVID-10 pandemic. The organisation has to adapt during the candidacy in 2016. The its working style, but also its calendar and programme, executive team is strengthened to 21 and becomes one of the key players in policy making persons and organisational systems and advocacy for the cultural sector locally and and procedures are put in place. New nationally. Financial sustainability is ensured through funding is secured through European a diverse mix of European, private and local public 2019 funds and external relations with the sources, with the latest representing less than a Ministry of Culture and international organisations are developed. The quarter of the annual budget. Centre’s projects reach 3,000 direct beneficiaries for the first time. 2018

The executive team was created and the basic functional mechanisms for programme implementation were set in motion. Ten of the The Association changed its name projects within the programme were launched and to Cluj Cultural Centre. The projects European funds in amount of six million euro were within the bid book were piloted at raised from the very first year of operation. local level and their relevance was

2017 assessed again by the community in order to proceed to the general implementation stage.

After a double standoff between Cluj-Napoca and 2016 Timișoara, Timișoara was finally selected as the future European Capital of Culture, based on a After numerous open discussions special vote granted by the Chair of the European and work sessions involving Capital of Culture Selection Panel. Cluj-Napoca local and foreign experts, the announced its commitment to fully implement its Association completed the cultural candidacy programme.

2015 programme and bid book, which qualified the city for the final phase of the national competition for the European Capital of Culture title. 2014 East of West, the concept defining the city’s bid for the European Capital of Culture title, emerged. This concept expresses the need of the local communities to come together and cooperate on common projects. At the end of a process involving over 60 local organisations, the

2013 Association developed and launched the Cultural Strategy of the city.

The working groups responsible for the preparation 2012 of the cultural strategy and the ECoC bid book were created and began their activity. More than 200 specialists from various cultural organisations and With the assistance received from institutions in Cluj-Napoca joined the activities. a commission of local experts, the Association made a preliminary

2011 analysis of the cultural sector in Cluj, highlighting the specificities of the different artistic disciplines The Association was founded under the name of 2010 . Cluj-Napoca 2020 (later 2021), with the purpose of preparing the city’s bid for the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) title. Board of Directors

Emil Boc Sorin Dan Daniel David Mayor Vice-president of French Rector of Cluj-Napoca Business Club Cluj of Babeș-Bolyai University

Vasile Jucan Radu Munteanu Irina Petraș Rector of ”Gheorghe Dima” Honorary President President of the Union Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca Technical of Writers in Romania - University Cluj Branch

Mihai Pop Răzvan Rotta Tudor Sălăgean President Representative Director of Plan B Foundation of Lions Cluj-Napoca of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography

Ioan Sbârciu Florin Vasile Stamatian Szenkovics Dezső President of the Senate of Director Vice-Dean of the the University of of IMOGEN – Medical Faculty of Science and Arts, Arts and Design Research Institute Sapientia University

Florin Țala Vákár István Ionel Vitoc School Mediator, Vice-president President of Carpatica Traian Dârjan School of County Council Cluj Cultural Foundation Team

Ștefan Teișanu Rarița Zbranca Anamaria Vrabie Corina Bucea Executive Programme Director Project Manager Director Director of the Cluj-Napoca of Academy of Change Urban Innovation Unit & Culture Next

Cristina Rogoz Miruna Amza Georgiana Buț Mihai Giurgiu Claudia Cacovean Project Manager Project Manager Project Manager Project Manager Project Manager Art’n’Play Quantum ECCA Remarkable Romania Inner Space & Research

Andreea Bercan Adina Cristea Cristina Labo Alexandra Anghel Alexandru Boguș Project Manager Operations Manager Project Assistant Urban Innovation Project Manager Culturepreurs Cluj Future of Work Cluj Future of Work Officer Jivipen

Raluca Mășcășan Hanna Ugron Alexandru Jurcan Mihai Chendrean Paula Feșnic Operations Grants Project Finance Project Finance Office Manager Manager Manager Manager Manager

Mihaela Orosan Nyiri Dalma Adela Nicoară Septimiu Cioară Hunor Ferencz Marketing Art PR Events Corporate Engagement Manager Director Specialist Specialist Coordinator Partners

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• A Soul for Europe • L’Arboreto (IT) • Ariona (GR) • Laboral (ES) • Ars Electronica (AT) • Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (US) • Artemrede (PT) • Michael Culture (BE) • Balkan Express • Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NL) • BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts (BE) • Network of European Museum • Bruno Kessler Foundation (IT) Organisations (DE) • Bunker (SI) • Occitanie en Scène (FR) • Capital High Tech (FR) • Opium (PT) • Centrum Cyfrowe (PO) • PCAI Awareness Raising (GR) • Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Laznia (PL) • Pergine Spettacolo Aperto (IT) • City of Athens - DEAM (GR) • Platoniq (ES) • City of Rijeka (HR) • Pogon (HR) • Consorci Transversal Xarxa d’Activitats • Polo Universitario Città di Prato (IT) Culturals (ES) • Pro Progressione (HU) • Copernicus Science Centre (PL) • Relais Culture Europe (FR) • Cultural Agents (US) • Sites & Cités remarquables de France (FR) • DAStU - Politecnico di Milano (IT) • Teatro di Sardegna (IT) • eConcult (ES) • Technorama Swiss Science Centre (SW) • European Academy of Yuste Foundation (ES) • UGM Maribor City Gallery (SI) • European Fashion Heritage Association (IT) • University of Barcelona - School of Economics • Europeana Foundation (NL) and Business (ES) • GLUON (BE) • University of Belgrade (RS) • ICCU (IT) • University of Rijeka (HR) • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (PT) • Urban Scale Interventions (IE) • IULM University of Milan (IT) • VU (NL) • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE) • webLyzard technology gmbh (AU) • KEA European Affairs (BE) • Worldcunch (FR)

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