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A live music map for Birmingham in times of COVID-19 Republished by ECBN from: PEC / Text by: Patrycja Rozbicka, Adam Behr and Craig Hamilton Recent research from UK Music has highlighted the economic contribution that music tourism has made to the UK economy, with the headline figures showing that 29.8 million people attended live music [...]

Make cultural relations count Republished by ECBN from: EUNIC Global The Covid-19 pandemic has a crushing effect on the work of international cultural relations. Artists and organisations, including EUNIC members, are severely affected by the abrupt discontinuation of their activities, which rely so heavily on people coming together to collaborate across borders. At the Online [...]

International web conference: Middle-digital earth: Museums between digital and emergency. Data, stories and impact (29-30 June and 1st July) Republished by ECBN from: Museum Switch Museum institutions are seismographs particularly sensitive to changes in communities and relationships that define their identity through their relationship with cultural heritage. The global emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has [...]

Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy Republished by ECBN from: DISCE – Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies In the first DISCE Webinars Dr. Roberta Comunian, DISCE researcher, presented some of her work (with colleague Dr. Lauren England at King’s College London) on the impact of Covid-19 on creative and cultural [...]

Long-term EU budget: MEPs slam cuts to culture and education Republished by ECBN from: European Parliament In a debate on Monday in the Culture and Education Committee with the Commission, all MEPs referred to cuts in the revised MFF proposal (MFF: Multiannual Financial Framework) as “unacceptable” for EU culture and education, stressing that these sectors were particularly [...]

Interview with Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan on his role of promoting inclusive and environmental initiatives as part of the city’s recovery Republished by ECBN from: OECD “Before the COVID-19 pandemic one of the main inclusivity challenges Milan was facing was the significant differences in opportunities between citizens living in the centre and in the [...]

EU support for artists and the cultural and creative sector during the coronavirus crisis Republished by ECBN from: European Parliament Think Tank The EU's cultural and creative sectors (CCS) are a European Union economic and societal asset, providing an important contribution to GDP, and shaping identity and diversity. Despite the significant contribution of the CCS [...]

CreativesUnite online conference on “the future of the CCS” (26th June 2020 – 10:30am (CET) Republished by ECBN from: CreativesUnited For over one month, the CreativesUnite platform has been showcasing CCIs initiatives from Europe and beyond as a response to the Covid-19 crisis that hit the sector so badly. Following a virtual meeting of EU Ministers of Culture [...]

On behalf of the Erasmus+ project DeuS, we would like invite you to attend BRIGHT, an international online conference on creative industries education which is organised by our Danish partner Creative Business Network from 29 June to 3 July 2020. BRIGHT is a global gathering of creative industries and everyone with a passion for entrepreneurship [...]

NEW Webinar: “The Future of Tourism in Natural Areas: Impact, Governance, Financing” (3-07-2020) Republished by ECBN from: OECD The Covid-19 pandemic has heavily affected tourism worldwide and it is expected to continue doing so over the coming months. In such a changing context, there is a widespread acknowledgement that tourism will never be the same [...]