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Call for Applications: The Role of Culture in Non-Urban Areas of the European Union

Funding to Develop Innovative Tech Solution in South Africa and Kenya

Deadline: 10 November 2019

The second topic in Voices of Culture 2019 – 2021 will ask questions about the role of culture in spaces outside urban centres in Europe. How can new priorities, policies, actions and funding streams better support culture in non-urban areas?

The Brainstorming meeting for the topic will place on the 4th & 5th of February 2020 at Fagus-Werk in Alfeld, Germany. Travel, accommodation, food will be provided by Voices of Culture.

The Dialogue meeting for this topic will take on the 22nd of April 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Travel, accommodation and food during the meetings will be provided by Voices of Culture.

For many years, cultural policy-makers have been focusing their work on major cities and urban development. A relatively large proportion of the EU population, however, is not based in main metropolitan areas, but hail from rural areas, towns and suburbs. With the EU aiming at achieving a more balanced territorial development more attention has to be paid to non-urban, rural and peri-urban areas in the coming years.

Several cultural issues are salient in areas outside of urban centres such as:

How will they do it?

Successful applicants will be invited to a Brainstorming meeting and to a Dialogue meeting and share their input on several questions:

The discussion is of course not limited to these questions. Participants are encouraged to share their opinion on what other aspects they deem important.

Eligibility Criteria

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via given website.

Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

For more information, please visit https://voicesofculture.eu/2019/10/10/the-role-of-culture-in-non-urban-areas-of-the-european-union/

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