Evidence Base
Forty years of European Capital of Culture material — bid books, evaluation reports, member submissions and policy frameworks — every piece mapped to the Culture Next Framework and the SDGs.
Ask the Evidence Base
Semantic search across every document in the Library — bid books, evaluations, frameworks, submissions, and news. Answers cite their sources; evaluation reports outrank bid books.
ECoC candidacy documents
What cities promised when they bid for the European Capital of Culture title. Bid books are statements of intent — invaluable for studying ambition, framing, and the rhetoric of candidacy, but they are not evidence of delivered outcomes. Every card carries that caveat.
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