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Since 1997 hundreds of cultural organisations from across Europe join in for a very special set of administrative and discursive protocols. New projects are painstakingly compiled and proposed each year as artists and producers aim for co-funding from one of the European Union's programm's for the cultural and creative sectors. Today these programmes are united under the name Creative Europe.

Slovene cultural producers have been consistently successful in these programmes. In fact, through an impressive performance of their application-genius, in 2018 the 5 project leaders have managed to claim no less than 2.8 million euros, while 17 Slovene producers are engaged as partners in granted Cooperation Projects of the Culture sub-programme. 

You can mingle with the producers on 28 August 2018 at the open meeting with discussion and coctails, hosted by [[Bunker Institute]] and [[Motovila Institute]]/[[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]] in the framework of [[Mladi levi Festival]] .
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[[Culture.si]] | ''Editorial''
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Since 1997 hundreds of cultural organisations from across Europe join in for a very special set of administrative and discursive protocols. New projects are painstakingly compiled and proposed each year as artists and producers aim for co-funding from one of the European Union's cultural programmes. Today these programmes are united under the name Creative Europe.

Worth about a billion and a half euros and covering the period between 2014 and 2020, Creative Europe is &ndash; to put it briefly &ndash; an instrument to support the creation of a shared European cultural space and identity. It is divided into two subprogrammes, the film-focused MEDIA, and the more diverse CULTURE, further partitioned into Literary Translations, European Platforms, European Networks and Cooperation Projects. It is the latter one the Slovene cultural producers have consistently been excelling in with considerable ''panache''. In 2018, 20 Slovene organizations are participating in the 20 supported Cooperation Projects of the Culture sub-programme. 

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===EU funding illustrated===

The infographic above is based on an interoperability project carried out by [[Culture.si]] and [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia|CED Slovenia]]. It features data that relates to EU funding for culture as a whole, encompassing the film and audiovisual media programmes (up until 2014 led under a separate entity known as MEDIA) as well as the two seven year schemes for culture (these were preceded by some smaller sector-related programmes from the late 1990s, for which Slovenia was not eligible yet).

Each square represents one participant organisation and clicking on them will take you to the more in-depth project descriptions. The infographic itself shows the distribution of projects by art field, by the organisation's role in the project and &ndash; interestingly &ndash; by the organisation's status as either a public or a private entity. 

Note that the 2018 project line on this infographic is incomplete at the time of the writing of this article as we are in August 2018.

===Natural born cultural managers? ===

When analysing the results of the previous years (2007&ndash;2011 and 2014&ndash;2015), Peter Inkei of the ''Budapest Observatory'' already stated in 2016 that "Slovenia is the incontestable east-central European champion in the Creative Europe programme". Thus his recent statement is merely a reiteration, as he wrote in May 2017, that "the champion is again Slovenia with a 35% success rate".  

What he is referring to with the success rate in 2017 is that out of 20 projects with a Slovene "project leader" (the projects are comprised of one lead organisation and several partner ones), 7 managed to be successful in obtaining funds. The other 74 endorsed projects &ndash; chosen out of the 548 submitted applications &ndash; featured 10 Slovene organisation as partners (which, between us, can often be the preferable position in terms of the funds/responsibility trade-off). With all this in mind, Inkei rhetorically wonders if Slovenes are "born cultural managers". They might be, but more probably it is the complex historic composition of the Slovene cultural landscape (especially the NGO scene) that should [https://www.culture.si/blog/2014/10/eu-funding-for-culture-4-observations-from-slovenia/ offer interesting clues] in this regard. 

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== Input of the Creative Europe Desk Slovenia (Motovila Institute) ==
 

There is, however, one factor that seems to stand out as rather important &ndash; the [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]]. This is the national information office for such matters, led by the small, but dedicated and trusted, NGO [[Motovila Institute]]. Recently, its crew, in a telling phrase that further elaborates Inkei's remark, has been labelled by one of the grant-winning producers as "our mothers". 

Be that as it may, helping out the applicants with advice, conducting informative workshops and carrying out other matters of general support, Motovila team sports a systematic approach towards producing a community-based pool of skills, tricks, contacts, and the like.

Anyway, the year 2018 has brought excellent results again.

===Recent Culture Cooperation Project recipients===

The chosen propositions from Slovenia are of course very diverse. One would be hard pressed to find a common theme even as the wordings of project descriptions tend to be somewhat generic, their authors striving to align them with the supposed affinities of Brussels.

The composition of successful organisations is similarly miscellaneous, ranging from small organisations to big and venerated art producers. While 6 of the participating organisations haven't had any prior experience in EU's cultural programmes, the 14 of them are veterans with at least one project under their belts. If in 2017 the public institutions have significantly boosted their Creative Europe profile, and have almost caught up with the previously much more industrious NGO sector, also in 2018 out of 18 organisations there are 8 successful public institutions.

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== 2018 recipients ==

* [[Bunker Institute]] (lead and partner))
* [[Imago Sloveniae]] (lead)
* [[Projekt Atol Institute]] (lead)
* [[Slovene Association of Historic Towns]] (lead)
* [[Slovene Writers’ Association]] (lead and partner)
* [[Dance Theatre Ljubljana]] (partner)
* [[Glej Theatre]] (partner)
* [[City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture]] (partner)
* [[Druga godba Ljubljana]] (partner)
* [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]] (partner)
* [[Kersnikova Institute]] (partner)
* [[Ljubljana Puppet Theatre]] (partner)
* [[Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova]] (partner)
* [[Municipality of Piran-Pirano]] (partner)
* [[Museum of Architecture and Design]] (partner)
* [[Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia]] (partner)
* [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor]] (partner)
* [[Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica]] (partner)
* [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]] (partner)
* [[Walk of Peace in the Soča Region Foundation]] (partner)

== 2017 recipients ==

* [[Aksioma Institute]] (lead)
* [[Goga Publishing House]] (lead)
* [[House! Society for People and Spaces]] (lead)
* [[Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova]] (lead)
* [[MoTA Museum of Transitory Art]] (lead)
* [[Pionirski dom Youth Culture Centre]] (lead)
* [[Sodobnost International Cultural Society]] (lead)

* [[City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture]] 
* [[Federacija Institute]]
* [[Gallus Foundation]]
* [[Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia]]
* [[Department of Art History, University of Ljubljana]]
* [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]]
* [[Ljubljana Puppet Theatre]]
* [[Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory]]
* [[Maribor Art Gallery]]
* [[Technical Museum of Slovenia]]

European platforms:
* [[Museum of Architecture and Design]]
* [[Beletrina Publishing Institute]]

Literary translation scheme:
* [[Sodobnost International Cultural Society]]
* [[Slovene Writers’ Association]]

==See also==

* [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]]
* [[:Category:EU_funding_of_Slovene_organisations_(Culture_and_MEDIA_Programmes)|A list of ALL Slovene organisations ever funded by the Culture and MEDIA Programmes]]

==External links==

* [http://www.budobs.org/component/content/article/14-memo/462-memo-april-2017.html April 2017 news from the Budapest Observatory, commenting on the Creative Europe Collaboration Projects 2017 results]
* [http://www.budobs.org/narchive/14-memo/449-memo-may-2016.html#b%C3%ADcycles May 2016 news from the Budapest Observatory, also commenting on the Creative Europe Collaboration Projects 2016 results]
* [http://www.budobs.org/files/creative_bicycles_15.pdf "The Story of 751 Bonds", a research paper on partnerships in EU-financed cultural projects, 2007-2011 and 2014-2015]
* [http://www.culture.si/blog/2014/10/eu-funding-for-culture-4-observations-from-slovenia/ EU funding for culture? 4 observations from Slovenia], a blog post by Culture.si and [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]]

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