EUNIC members met in their first hybrid General Assembly on 10 and 11 June 2021. The network adopted joint statements with EEAS and RIDCULT, welcomed two new members and approved the establishment of seven new EUNIC clusters. The network now counts 132 clusters in more than 100 countries.

The study looks at the rapid digital shift that EUNIC members undertook in response to the Covid-19 crisis. It shares insights and good practices and provides recommendations on how to continue develop organisational capacities with digital tools, from working together to providing online content.

In a high-level conference on 1 June 2021, EUNIC gathered more than 400 policymakers, representatives from the six European Spaces of Culture project teams, cultural relations experts and practitioners from all over the world to discuss the future of EU cultural relations.

EUNIC is creating a variety of practical and comprehensive tools to facilitate fair practices of colleagues working in EUNIC members worldwide. To ensure that the final outcomes will be user-centered and relevant, it is your turn now - feed the creation of EUNIC's toolkit on fair collaboration by participating in one of our roundtables or by answering to our survey.

With an Open Call for projects NDPC, in partnership with NDPHS, EUNIC and Arts Promotion Centre Finland, is launching the project “The Art of Staying Healthy”. In the project, we aim to develop collaboration between the arts and health sectors and to pilot arts interventions on the health and well-being of people and communities in the Northern Dimension area.

Among 28 applications from around the globe, a variety of projects under the special call for proposals Europe Readr has been selected. Europe Reader invites EUNIC members, EU representations and local partners to team up in order to propose projects to foster the reading culture and critical thinking about the future of living.

What innovative models of cultural collaboration have the pilot projects of European Spaces of Culture identified? How does the project contribute to delivering the EU’s strategy for international cultural relations?

EUNIC members adopted new statutes and procedures concerning membership at the global level of EUNIC at their meeting on 17 March 2021.

EU National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) and Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC) are launching a call for proposals for a mapping study on mobility and collaboration funding for the cultural and creative industries sector in the Northern Dimension countries. Deadline April 15, 2021.

In a new letter sent as part of the Cultural Deal for Europe campaing, more than 110 pan-European networks - including EUNIC - reiterate their call to national governments and the European Commission to make culture a pillar of the recovery of Europe.