Europe Readr, the flagship project of the Slovenian EU Council Presidency, was officially launched and inaugurated by David Sassoli, the President of the European Parliament, Gitte Zschoch, the Director of EUNIC, and Anže Logar, the Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

A jury of experts has selected fourteen project ideas for the second phase of European Spaces of Culture to be developed into concrete projects for 2022. "There is a lot of dynamic and energy being put together as part of this initiative. I appreciate being involved in all of these different steps in quite a complex time where of course we have more questions than answers." says Natasha Ginwala about choosing new project ideas at the selection meeting which was held online via Zoom on 8 July.

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.

What is a EUNIC cluster, how is it related to EUNIC’s vision and objectives, and how to establish and run a cluster? An updated version of the EUNIC Cluster Guidelines including the latest developments of EUNIC is now available, compiling all relevant key information regarding the EUNIC network and its clusters.

What does fair collaboration in cultural relations mean? And what could it look like for EUNIC members working with local partners worldwide? To find answers to these pressing and often sensitive questions, EUNIC has commissioned a team of six experts to develop a set of user-centered tools for colleagues working in EUNIC members and in the field of cultural relations.

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.

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.