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    Brainstorming Report: ‘Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries driving Green Transition and facing the Energy Crisis’
    The European Green Deal highlights the importance of the cultural sector in the implementation of specific and systematic efforts towards carbon neutrality and climate resilience across Europe by 2050.
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    Posted 1 December 2023
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    Voices of Culture: Brainstorming Meeting on the Green Transition and Energy Crisis (Estonia)
    Voices of Culture, the platform for dialogue offered to civil society by the European Commission, is inviting interested organisations from EU member states to apply to participate in the upcoming topic on Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries driving Green Transition and facing the Energy Crisis. Successful applicants will be invited to a brainstorming meeting in the European Capital of Culture 2024, Tartu in Estonia, on 15 and 16 June 2023.
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    Posted 12 April 2023
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    International Cultural Relations
    This document represents a collection of topics, recommendations, tangible steps and project ideas drawn from the Voices of Culture Structured Dialogue on international cultural relations in February 2022.
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    Posted 28 June 2022
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    Voices of Culture: Brainstorming Meeting on Youth, Mental Health and Culture (Belgium)
    The third topic of Voices of Culture 2021 – 2023 will generate project ideas and policy recommendations for the cultural and creative sectors and decision-makers on the topic of the role of the cultural and creative sectors in improving mental health of young people. A brainstorm meeting will be held in Brussels 4-5 October 2022. Organisations applying must be based in one of the 27 EU Member States.
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    Posted 23 June 2022
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  • A silhouette of a person talking outdoors on a phone. They are blurry and indistinct. Layered onto the photo, a Jackson Pollock riot of orange and yellow paint - a firestorm.
    Status and Working Conditions for Artists, Cultural and Creative Professionals
    The Status and Working Conditions for Artists, Cultural and Creative Professionals report is the result of a brainstorming meeting organised by Voices of Culture on 27-28 April 2021. It was presented to the European Commission in a Dialogue Meeting on 29 June 2021. Among chapters on the legal status of artists, their financial situations (encompassing fair pay, collective bargaining, intellectual property, etc.), and research and lifelong learning, there is also a chapter dedicated to mobility.
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    Posted 7 July 2021
  • Voices of Culture: Status and Working Conditions of Artists and Cultural and Creative Professionals
    The fourth topic of Voices of Culture 2019 – 2021 will ask questions about the challenges and opportunities for the status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals. Individuals and organisations from the sector are invited to take part in a digital Brainstorming Meeting on 27 & 28 April 2021 and a Dialogue Meeting in Brussels on the 29 June 2021 (digital if necessary) to contribute to discussion with the European Commission.
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    Posted 26 January 2021
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  • Voices of Culture > Culture and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities
    Voices of Culture provides a framework for discussions between cultural stakeholders and the European Commission. The third topic of Voices of Culture 2019 – 2021 will ask questions about the challenges and opportunities for culture and the sustainable development goals. How can new priorities, policies, actions and funding streams better address this issue?
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    Posted 18 October 2020
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