European Cultural Policy

The Ruhr Area is responding to the high demands set by the EU.More ...

Back in 2007 the European Parliament launched the Lux – a film prize awarded every year - and since then the European filmmaking scene has moved more and more into the limelight.More ...

The EU’s Erasmus exchange program for student and academic mobility is a huge success all round.More ...

An interview with the director of the 1954 founded European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Gottfried Wagner.More ...

Since 1991 a support program called MEDIA has been sponsoring European film production by paying for the distribution costs. Many a filmmaker or producer would have given up a long time ago, if this program had not enabled his or her film to get off to a flying start in Europe.More ...

What are the major cities doing in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue? What new concepts have they developed? How are they dealing with the ethnic diversity that characterises their populations? – The Dortmund congress entitled “Diversity unites” held at the start of September 2008 presented concepts, models and projects from different European cities.More ...

The European Union Commission decided in 1989 to create one „common European audiovisual region“ (Directive „Television without Frontiers“). Yet European television is still national television. Only the TV station “Euronews” can claim to broadcast a truly European centred programme.More ...

Chinese-European cooperation is currently experiencing a boom. The mutual interest at the level of trade and economic relations is common knowledge – lesser known to date is the growing interest among Chinese political and social scientists in the "European Union model". The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, for example, has been working closely together with the Institute of European Studies in Beijing for ten years now.More ...

The Maecenata Institute is committed to an ideal that originated with Maecenas, a member of the Roman aristocracy and patron of contemporary poets: supporting and promoting culture and society on a voluntary basis. The aim is to strengthen civil society as well as the state and the market.More ...

They put issues of cultural policy on the agenda. They see themselves more as a “think tank” than as a lobby. As is the way with artists and intellectuals, they regard themselves as an independent association of many individuals. And the topic of Europe has been on their agenda from the beginning. Introducing the „Association for Cultural Policy.“More ...

It is Jean Monnet to whom the phrase is ascribed that he would start from culture and not from the economy if he could seize a fresh opportunity for the political integration of Europe. This thought is repeatedly and readily quoted in the field of cultural policy since it gives expression to the great relevance of culture, thus in complete contrast to the European Union's shockingly low culture budget.More ...

Interview with photographer Peter Liedtke on Essen and the Ruhrgebiet as the 2010 European Capital of CultureMore ...