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Digital journey to Tromsø 2020 Republished by ECBN from: IETM Lockdown measures taken by governments across the globe to contain the spread of COVID-19 forced IETM to cancel its Spring Plenary meeting in Tromsø, initially planned from 30 April to 3 May 2020. However, the network invited both members and the wider performing arts community to join in [...]

KEA takes part in Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes’ “Check-in Cultural and Creative Industries #7” round table Republished by ECBN from: KEA European Affairs KEA European Affairs has taken part in the “Check-in Cultural and Creative Industries #7”  round table discussions, organised by Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes and focusing on Europe's Cultural [...]

Live arts in the virtualising world Republished by ECBN from: IETM Global lockdown measures have generated a wave of digitalisation, and the performing arts have undoubtedly been pulled in with it. As it is not that obvious for the live arts to jump from the real life domain to the Internet, we need to ask [...]

Common Ground: the European Cultural Foundation’s new annual maganize Republished by ECBN from: European Cultural Foundation Just as the foundation’s five-year strategy, this magazine Common Ground sits awkwardly but intentionally, between a seemingly distant past and a rather uncertain future. This moment softly echoes Robert Schuman’s appeal of May 9, 1950: “Europe will not be [...]

Cultural Diversity and COVID-19: The Road to Recovery (14/05/20) Republished by ECBN from: International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (FCCD) On May 14th 2020 (2-4pm, Paris time), the ResiliArt Debate -in partnership with IFCCD and CISAC- will take place. ResiliArt is a global movement launched by UNESCO and CISAC that consists of a series [...]

Policy making in the Netherlands[i] From 2003 onwards, creative industries slowly gained attention of politicians and policy makers in the Netherlands: creative industries as a sector was recognized as one of the key areas of the Dutch economy. First support and policy experiments started in 2005. In the years after from 2007 first national initiatives [...]

A new economy for the arts – Webinar available online Republished by ECBN from: IETM Building on the discussion held during our previous Advocate for the future of the arts webinar,  the network reflected on how the current COVID-19 crisis might be an opportunity to rethink the economy of the sector and shift paradigms. After this period [...]

Culture Lab Europe: Spaces for Solidarity Republished by ECBN from: European Cultural Foundation On Europe Day the European Cultural Foundation kicks off the online version of Culture Lab Europe – Spaces for Solidarity. The event was planned to take place in April in Rijeka, Croatia, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis. Fifty cultural [...]

Mu.SA final event: “The future of museum professionals in the digital era” Republished by ECBN from: Museum Sector Alliance (Mu.SA) The final conference, “The future of museum professionals in the digital era", of Mu.SA is now available online. NEMO Secretary General Julia Pagel delivered a keynote speech on the network’s survey, mapping the impact of [...]

COVID-19: Save European culture and values, MEPs tell Commission Republished by ECBN from: European Parliament In their discussion with Commissioners Mariya Gabriel and Thierry Breton, Culture and Education Committee MEPs stressed that the damage to the cultural and creative sector – especially for small businesses and individual actors – meant “more than just jobs being [...]