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Trešnjevka Cultural Centre (CeKate) from Zagreb, Croatia (www.cekate.hr) , has announced a Call for Partners. There are two partnerships that can be joined by cultural and/or educational organisations from Europe.   Both partnerships will be applied at Erasmus+ programme in March 2019 and are focused on people with disability.   Educathe+ Expander partnership in focused […]

On June 4-5-6 2019, we’ll meet in Lisbon, Portugal and in the Convento da Arrabida to match partners for European Projects. Please pencil the dates in your calendar and start thinking about projects you would like to propose or join. Read more here.

Applications for our flagship BECC staff exchange, training and mentoring programme are now open. This year’s edition will take 15 selected participants to Pristina, Kosovo, in March 2019, for a 3-day kickoff seminar in preparation of staff exchanges of a week or more in another cultural organisation in Europe . BUILD YOUR LOCAL NETWORK (AND […]

Our meetings and our red thread topic for the year. This year our network is focusing on a new topic that we’re calling “From Hubs to Nodes – Developing Local Networks“. We’re looking at fluid types of cooperation that allow each local organization (or node) to contribute to a common strategy, mutualize competences and skills, reach out […]

Our newest publication, by Marie Le Sourd and Dagna Gmitrowicz, is now available online. This toolkit is designed to help cultural centres staff, as well as other cultural professionals, evaluate their project, programmes and/or organisation, especially when financial and human resources are limited. It offers an overview of questions, strategies and methods to consider, as […]

The programme for our 2018 Shortcut Europe conference, ‘Exploring Cultural Spaces’, is online.We’ll be looking at how cultural centres can create ‘cultural spaces’ and reconnect artists and social engagement. And highlighting methodologies and partnerships with a focus on the place and the role of artists in cultural centres’ activities. The full programme is available here (with more details to come). Link https://encc.eu/activities/events/shortcut-europe-2018-exploring-cultural-spaces

Discussion and negotiations are starting at the European level concerning the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). In the context of pressure from national governments to respond to the departure of Great Britain with budget cuts, we, the cultural sector, must act to ensure that funding for culture is not affected by those cuts. The European Alliance for […]

  Shortcut Europe 2018 meeting will be dedicated to ‘Exploring Cultural Spaces’– the new and unexpected spaces that cultural centres are creating by interacting with and transforming their environment. We propose two days filled with challenging speakers, study visits and presentations on the evolution of organisational and economic paradigms; with testimonies on the impact of going European or joining a network. Two days to […]

Registrations are now open for the conference “Culture for shared, smart, innovative territories: towards 2020 European Regional Development” which will be held in Community of Oleśnica, Poland on October 27th and 28th, 2016. What are the ongoing transformations within European regions? What reorganizations are to be imagined at a local, European or global scale, to […]

Call for BECC application will be published on this website in October 2016. You can find some other important dates here. BECC is a Europe-wide staff exchange programme. It aims at enabling locally based cultural workers from cultural centres to go abroad for a learning experience with a cultural centre in another country: to tackle […]