The project Europe Readr aims to foster reading culture and critical thinking about the future of living. It also will further strengthen worldwide cultural cooperation between EUNIC members, EU representations and partners. A special call for proposals invites these partners to team up and apply for up to 10,000 EUR for their projects until 8 April.

Europe Readr is a project initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia on the occasion of the upcoming Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in July 2021 and realised in cooperation with EUNIC.

EUNIC is looking for a new Director. The post holder should be an employee of a EUNIC member organisation or have a strong affiliation with one. The post starts on 1 August 2021.

With the #CulturalDealEU campaign, launched by Culture Action Europe, European Cultural Foundation, and Europa Nostra, the European community of cultural, creative, heritage and philanthropic sectors calls to mainstream culture across all policy fields to fully realise its potential for the European project.

The Call for Ideas aims to find new innovative ideas for collaboration models between EUNIC members, EU Delegations and local partners in countries outside the EU. Project ideas can be submitted until 13 June 2021. The Call has a total envelope of EUR 500,000, project teams can apply for up to EUR 60,000, to be spent in different steps.

Cees de Graaff, director of DutchCulture, was voted in as the new President of EUNIC at the General Assembly in October. In this interview he talks about cultural relations in challenging times and the priorities and added value of his presidency.

27 projects were selected for co-financing under the EUNIC Cluster Fund 2020 with a total of 333,700.00 Euros. In reaction to the current COVID-19 crisis and the impact it has had on culture worldwide, this year’s call had a special focus on support to local cultural and creative scenes.

More Europe, together with 16 other cultural organisations including EUNIC, call on the European Commission and the European Parliament to give adequate consideration to strengthen international cultural relations within future policy frameworks

EUNIC is looking for a researcher or team of researchers to examine how taking a cultural relations approach to cultural programmes supports peace and stability in fragile contexts.

EUNIC members met in their first online General Assembly on 29 and 30 October 2020. They elected a new Board of Directors, exchanged on EUNIC’s partnership with the EU as well as on Associate Membership and approved the establishment of new EUNIC clusters. EUNIC now counts 125 clusters worldwide.