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🌐 Webinar recap: Cultural relations & sustainability In our recent webinar, we showcased how EUNIC Cluster Fund 2023 projects from around the world are addressing sustainability and the climate crisis through cultural relations. A big thank you to our speakers for sharing their insights and success stories: Cécile Hoorelbeke (Alliance Française de Kotte à Colombo) - Sri Lanka Wicher Slagter (Netherlands Embassy in India) - New Delhi Michael Schmeiser (Embassy of Austria Bangkok) - Thailand Zainab Mejja Adam (Alliance Française de Mombasa) - Kenya Zanete Eglite (Danish Cultural Institute in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) - Latvia Explore the Cluster Fund 2023 projects here: https://lnkd.in/eh6C3Pyy 📢 Interested in applying for the EUNIC Cluster Fund 2024? This year's call includes an optional focus on sustainability. Applications are open until 23:59 CET on 6 November. Learn more here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e2q4WP9W

🌱 Introducing the EUNIC Sustainability Toolkit! We’re excited to launch the EUNIC Sustainability Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Cultural Relations Institutes – a comprehensive set of resources designed to help cultural relations practitioners engage with climate action and sustainability. This toolkit, authored by Maria Elena De Matteo 🌱 (WE MOVE WAVES) and Eva Balaban, is the result of close collaboration with EUNIC members and builds on insights from our Climate Culture(s) Creative Lab held in Berlin last year. It's designed to help both individuals and organisations to engage more deeply with sustainability initiatives and climate action. Explore the five documents to gain practical guidance for every step of your sustainability journey. Discover the toolkit below - use it, share it, and together as a community of cultural relations practitioners, let’s accelerate integrating climate action into our work! 🙌 https://lnkd.in/en8vwCHb #Sustainability #ClimateAction #CulturalRelations

🚀 Join our team at EUNIC! We're excited to announce an internship opportunity at the EUNIC office here in Brussels! If you're passionate about cultural relations, eager to contribute to a global network and ready for a hands-on learning experience, we want to hear from you! - Position: Internship - Communications and Programme Support (full time) - Location: Brussels, Belgium - Duration: 6 months, starting 4 November 2024 - Remuneration: 1,200 EUR/month + lunch & transport As an intern, you'll support our communications and cluster work, gain insights into the world of European cultural relations and work alongside a dynamic team! 💡 Check out the full job description below and apply before 20 October at jobs@eunicglobal.eu. We're looking forward to hearing from you! https://lnkd.in/dhuM7vFB #BrusselsInternship #InternshipBrussels #CulturalRelations

⚡ This week, EUNIC participated in the annual CommUNIQUE meeting in Berlin, bringing together communications professionals from across European cultural networks. The event offered a valuable opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions on key communications topics such as storytelling, press relations, contact management, video strategies and social media. By sharing experiences and addressing common challenges, we explored new approaches to enhancing communication efforts across our networks! Thanks European Theatre Convention and NEMO - Network of European Museum Organisations for such a great programme. We look forward to continued collaboration and exchange with our CommUNIQUE partners: AEC - European Association of Conservatoires, European Dance Development Network, European Music Council, Pearle* Live Performance Europe, European Network of Cultural Centres, IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts, European Choral Association, Caravan Youth and Social Circus Network. Read, Perform Europe, European Festivals Association, Circostrada

We met with our board member, Johannes Ebert, Goethe-Institut e.V. colleagues from their Munich HQ and the management of their branches across Europe to discuss the role of the EUNIC network and the EU’s commitment to international #CulturalRelations. 🤝 Following their recent survey exploring engagement with EUNIC clusters around the world, our team sat down with Goethe colleagues to discuss how we can better support the cluster network. 🌍 A big thank you for the warm welcome and insightful discussions—conversations like these are essential to strengthen our global network!

A busy week of cultural connections in Norway! 🇳🇴 This week, we headed north for a packed few days of meetings with our members, partners and local cultural actors. A huge thanks to the Norwegian Embassy in Brussels for their support in making this happen! Here are some highlights: 🎨 LIAF - Lofoten International Art Festival We met with the Mayor of Bodø, the team behind Bodø2024 – #EuropeanCapitalOfCulture, and several passionate cultural actors and partners from the local area. They offered fascinating insights into the vital contributions that culture makes to life in the far north! 🤝 Connecting with EUNIC Norway cluster We discussed future collaboration with the dedicated and energised EUNIC Norway team, kindly hosted the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo, who hold the cluster presidency.  🇪🇺 EU Delegation to Norway visit We had a fruitful discussion on strengthening the EU’s commitment to #CulturalRelations - both in Norway and globally. A broad panorama of approaches to collaboration and network building at local, national, and international level!

September marks the start of a new EUNIC Mobility Scheme! 🚀 The EUNIC Mobility Scheme facilitates the exchange of knowledge and best practices among EUNIC colleagues, offering the chance to discover different approaches to common challenges and develop new ways of working. This edition will explore topics ranging from journalism and civil society to gender equality and youth engagement! Colleagues across the EUNIC network have now been matched with their host institutions and visits will soon begin. Over the next year, 70 colleagues working in #CulturalRelations will take part in the scheme, thanks to the 25 hosting offers from across Europe, North Africa and Asia. 🌍 Visits will be hosted at EUNIC members' headquarters, such as the Svenska institutet in Stockholm, or at local branches like the Goethe-Institut Bratislava. Some will also be hosted by EUNIC clusters, including the EUNIC Egypt cluster in Cairo. Stay tuned for more Mobility Scheme updates and learn more about the 2024-25 programme here: https://lnkd.in/esq3hi2q #EunicMobilityScheme #KnowledgeSharing #CulturalExchange

What is the relationship between culture and democracy? 🤝 This week, Budapest is hosting the ‘Access is Success’ conference - part of the culture programme of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU. #HU24EU This morning, Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, Director General of #DGEAC, underlined culture as a right shared by everyone and discussed a new European Commission study exploring the link between cultural participation and democratic outcomes, raising concerns around confidence and trust in civic processes. At EUNIC, we believe that culture is central to building trust and understanding between Europe and the wider world, and strengthening democratic participation and civil society. 🌏 Explore these three examples of EUNIC projects where we see these principles in action: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: ‘Dybys. Female Voices Aloud’ This project aims to create a crucial space for public discourse on women’s roles in contemporary society. By amplifying unheard female voices, it explores their influence on societal and political transformations. Supported by #EuropeanSpacesofCulture 2024-25. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/djJW6PGa 🇰🇪 Kenya: Cartooning for Peace and Democracy EUNIC Kenya, with partners, led a series of educational and advocacy activities promoting peaceful, democratic elections. Through press cartoons and satire, the project encouraged dialogue on political processes, countering hate speech and misinformation. #EUNICClusterFund project 2022. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dBaW8sSE 🇸🇰 Slovakia: Art as Evidence This project in Slovakia focused on countering misinformation, propaganda, and fake news. By creating an open space for learning, it promoted critical thinking, fact-checking and media literacy. #EUNICClusterFund project 2023. Discover more here: https://lnkd.in/dmvE-bKa

📢 Welcome to the EUNIC Global Team!   We’re excited to welcome Warren O'Donnell to our team as Communications Manager. Warren brings valuable experience from his previous roles at the Creative Europe programme and at an international network in the media and audiovisual sector.    With a background in languages and cultural studies, and a passion for cultural relations and international cooperation, Warren is ready to dive into his new role - welcome aboard!

It’s always a pleasure to connect with our members face-to-face. 🇵🇹 Today, we're in Lisbon to meet with Ambassador Florbela Paraíba, the newly appointed president of Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. As the former Portuguese ambassador to Senegal, Paraíba is no stranger to EUNIC collaboration projects, both in Western Africa and elsewhere. We discussed approaches to more forward-facing cultural relations and share a commitment to cultural cooperation that goes beyond purely government-to-government relations. We must encourage civil society-led initiatives, working closely with European colleagues and local actors through EUNIC's global network. Let’s continue exploring how we can work together to make the EU’s vision for #TeamEurope a reality. 🤝