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| − | Ever since the year 2000 hundreds of cultural organisations from across Europe get to be annually united in a very curios set of discursive and administrative protocols and rituals. After adding the final touches to their respective, often painstakingly compiled project propositions, they then apply for funds from the European Union's cultural programme. As of 2014 this programme is known as ''Creative Europe'' | + | Ever since the year 2000 hundreds of cultural organisations from across Europe get to be annually united in a very curios set of discursive and administrative protocols and rituals. After adding the final touches to their respective, often painstakingly compiled project propositions, they then apply for funds from the European Union's cultural programme. As of 2014 this programme is known as ''Creative Europe''. |
| − | Worth about a billion and a half euros, Creative Europe is – to put it briefly – a means to support the creation of a shared European cultural space and identity. It is divided into two sub-programmes, the film focused MEDIA (up until 2014 a separate entity), and the more diverse CULTURE. This one is further partitioned into ''Literary Translations'', ''European Platforms'', ''European Networks'' and ''Cooperation Projects''. It is through this latter one that Slovene cultural producers have been managing to continuously excel with quite some ''panache''. In fact – in a stunning performance of their application-genius – Slovene cultural organisations managed to claim no less than 1,2 million of the roughly 35 million euros at stake for ''Cooperation Projects'' in 2017. | + | Worth about a billion and a half euros and covering the period of 2014–2020, Creative Europe is – to put it briefly – a means to support the creation of a shared European cultural space and identity. It is divided into two sub-programmes, the film focused MEDIA (up until 2014 a separate entity), and the more diverse CULTURE. This one is further partitioned into ''Literary Translations'', ''European Platforms'', ''European Networks'' and ''Cooperation Projects''. It is through this latter one that Slovene cultural producers have been managing to continuously excel with quite some ''panache''. In fact – in a stunning performance of their application-genius – Slovene cultural organisations managed to claim no less than 1,2 million of the roughly 35 million euros at stake for ''Cooperation Projects'' in 2017. |
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There is, however, one factor that seems to stand out fairly obviously as rather important. The [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]] (CED) is a small but dedicated and trusted NGO whose crew was, in a telling phrase from one of the grant winning producers, labelled as mothers. Helping out the applicants with advice, workshops and other matters of general support, they sport a systematic approach towards producing a community-based pool of skills, tricks, contacts, and the like. | There is, however, one factor that seems to stand out fairly obviously as rather important. The [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]] (CED) is a small but dedicated and trusted NGO whose crew was, in a telling phrase from one of the grant winning producers, labelled as mothers. Helping out the applicants with advice, workshops and other matters of general support, they sport a systematic approach towards producing a community-based pool of skills, tricks, contacts, and the like. | ||
| − | What CED also does is a data mining and interoperability project, undertaken together with our portal. The interactive infographic bellow represents the data related to the EU funding for culture as a whole, encompassing also the film and audiovisual media programmes. You can see the distribution of projects by art field, by the organisation's role in the project (leader/partner) and – interestingly – by the organisation's status as either a public or a private entity. Each square represents one participant, linking to his profile on our portal (the profile itself includes a complete list of one's European projects). | + | What CED also does is a data mining and interoperability project, undertaken together with our portal. The interactive infographic bellow represents the data related to the EU funding for culture as a whole, encompassing also the film and audiovisual media programmes*. You can see the distribution of projects by art field, by the organisation's role in the project (leader/partner) and – interestingly – by the organisation's status as either a public or a private entity. Each square represents one participant, linking to his profile on our portal (the profile itself includes a complete list of one's European projects). |
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===List of ''Cooperation Projects'' recipients in 2017=== | ===List of ''Cooperation Projects'' recipients in 2017=== | ||
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| + | + and continuing the relatively similar ''Culture 2007'' and ''Culture 2000'' schemes, further preceded by some smaller programmes from the late 1990s. All of them are based on the Treaty of Maastricht, which in 1992 first granted the EU its (still somewhat limited) legitimacy to act in the cultural domain. | ||
Revision as of 19:19, 20 June 2017
Ever since the year 2000 hundreds of cultural organisations from across Europe get to be annually united in a very curios set of discursive and administrative protocols and rituals. After adding the final touches to their respective, often painstakingly compiled project propositions, they then apply for funds from the European Union's cultural programme. As of 2014 this programme is known as Creative Europe.
Worth about a billion and a half euros and covering the period of 2014–2020, Creative Europe is – to put it briefly – a means to support the creation of a shared European cultural space and identity. It is divided into two sub-programmes, the film focused MEDIA (up until 2014 a separate entity), and the more diverse CULTURE. This one is further partitioned into Literary Translations, European Platforms, European Networks and Cooperation Projects. It is through this latter one that Slovene cultural producers have been managing to continuously excel with quite some panache. In fact – in a stunning performance of their application-genius – Slovene cultural organisations managed to claim no less than 1,2 million of the roughly 35 million euros at stake for Cooperation Projects in 2017.
Natural born cultural managers?
Nevertheless, even such a performance was really only a minor surprise. When analysing the results of the previous years, Peter Inkei from the Budapest observatory stated in 2016 that »Slovenia is the incontestable east-central European champion in the Creative Europe programme«. He thus only reiterated himself when he recently, in May 2017, wrote that »the champion is again Slovenia with a 35% success rate«.
Sports metaphors aside, what he is referring to is that out of 20 projects with a Slovene 'leader' (the projects are comprised of one leading organisation and several partner ones), 7 managed to be successful. The other 74 endorsed projects (chosen out of the 548 sent in) feature further 10 Slovene organisation as partners (which, between us, is often 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 offer rather interesting clues in this regard.
There is, however, one factor that seems to stand out fairly obviously as rather important. The Creative Europe Desk Slovenia (CED) is a small but dedicated and trusted NGO whose crew was, in a telling phrase from one of the grant winning producers, labelled as mothers. Helping out the applicants with advice, workshops and other matters of general support, they sport a systematic approach towards producing a community-based pool of skills, tricks, contacts, and the like.
What CED also does is a data mining and interoperability project, undertaken together with our portal. The interactive infographic bellow represents the data related to the EU funding for culture as a whole, encompassing also the film and audiovisual media programmes*. You can see the distribution of projects by art field, by the organisation's role in the project (leader/partner) and – interestingly – by the organisation's status as either a public or a private entity. Each square represents one participant, linking to his profile on our portal (the profile itself includes a complete list of one's European projects).
- Organisations by status
- Public
- Private
- Projects by field
- film and audiovisual projects
- interdisciplinary projects
- multimedia and new technologies
- books and reading / literary translation
- cultural heritage
- architecture, design and applied arts
- performing arts (theatre, dance, music)
- visual arts
- Organisation's role in the project
- beneficiary
- co-beneficiary
List of Cooperation Projects recipients in 2017
At the moment only the results of the Cooperation Projects call are known for 2017. However, what is somewhat striking and can already be discerned is that public institutions have significantly boosted their Creative Europe profile, and have almost caught up with the previously much more industrious NGO sector. What are the reasons for this and if the still reigning policies of public austerity can be of any guide here is a speculation better left to others.
Here bellow is a list of the organisations that were successful in the Creative Europe Cooperation Projects call, as unveiled in May 2017.
- Aksioma Institute
- City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture
- Department of Art History, University of Ljubljana
- Federacija Institute
- Gallus Foundation
- Goga Publishing House
- House! Society for People and Spaces
- Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Maribor Regional Office
- Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
- Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
- Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory
- Maribor Art Gallery
- Moderna galerija (MG)
- MoTA Museum of Transitory Art
- Pionirski dom Youth Culture Centre
- Sodobnost International Cultural Society
- Technical Museum of Slovenia
See also
- Creative Europe Desk Slovenia
- A list of ALL Slovene organisations ever funded by the Culture and MEDIA Programmes
- Culture.si infographics
External links
- April 2017 news from the Budapest Observatory, commenting on the CEP results
- May 2017 news from the Budapest Observatory, also commenting on the CEP results
- Research paper by the Budapest Observatory
- EU funding for culture? 4 observations from Slovenia, a blog post by Culture.si and Creative Europe Desk Slovenia
+ and continuing the relatively similar Culture 2007 and Culture 2000 schemes, further preceded by some smaller programmes from the late 1990s. All of them are based on the Treaty of Maastricht, which in 1992 first granted the EU its (still somewhat limited) legitimacy to act in the cultural domain.
<small class="imgdesc">The infographic featuring the international impact of 18 successful producers from Slovenia who have received the Creative Europe funds in 2020 for cooperation with 94 partners from 24 countries!ration with 94 partners from 24 countries! +
