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40 documents for “Crisis response”

Ask Encore: “Crisis response”An answer from across the Archive, every claim cited to its document.

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Frameworks & research

…2.3 Key thematic discussions Culture as preventive care A central theme was the idea of culture as preventive care , rather than merely a response to crisis.

Kaunas 2022 — 2nd monitoring reportMonitoring & progress reports · Kaunas · 2022The “Culture to the Courtyards” project is a good example of such a creative and timely response to the crisis, with a strong involvement of both artists and local people.

Ljubljana 2025 — Final selectionBid books · Ljubljana · 2025Preparedness and capability for a quick response to unforeseeable circumstances and just as important for the success of LJ 2025 as long-term strategy, a thoughtful programme and an effective organizational structure.

Bielsko-Biała 2029Bid books · Bielsko-Biała · 2029TO RESPOND TO POLYCRISIS: by addressing chal- lenges such as climate change, global conflicts, migration crises, mental health conditions, disin- formation and rapid digital transformation and in- viting audiences to participate in finding…

the_missing_pillar.pdfSent in by membersUNESCO, October 2016. 113 “UN Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to the COVID 19 crisis”. Website accessed on 8 July 2020.

Siena 2019 — Final selectionBid books · Siena · 2019…Siena is that, after a long period of negative attention from the me- dia at the national level, the Sienese community would judge a negative response on the bid as a further sign of distrust in the city’s capacity to stand back up, and…

Kranj 2025 — Pre-selectionBid books · Kranj · 2025…Slovenia, elementary and secondary schools of Gorenjska, museums of the region, Kovačnica, Open Lab 38 THE PIONEER AWARD - The Pajer Award for Crisis Zone Photography Our development of a program for documenting crisis zones turns…

Lublin 2029Bid books · Lublin · 2029

Kalamata 2021 — Final selectionBid books · Kalamata · 2021We aim to turn the crisis of a centralised Greece (over 40% of the population resides in Attica) into a chance to transform a small peripheral city into a new vibrant cultural hotspot with a high quality of life.

Esch-sur-Alzette 2022 — 2nd monitoring reportMonitoring & progress reports · Esch-sur-Alzette · 2022…communication, the Panel questioned how the new challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic were addressed, in particular the impact the crisis might have on the tourism industry in 2022.

Three Sisters 2020 — Pre-selectionBid books · Three Sisters · 2020…Royal and Wexford Arts Centre, in collaboration with the German art collective ‘Centre for Political Beauty’, which is pioneering the creative response to Europe’s migrant crisis and the existential crisis that foregrounds it.

Skopje 2028 — Final selectionBid books · Skopje · 2028

Galway 2020 — Evaluation ReportEvaluations · Galway · 2020Galway Web Mirror Pavilion Mirror Pavilion by John Gerrard is a response to the escalating climate crisis and pushes the boundaries of digital art using simulation.

Évora 2027 — Pre-selectionBid books · Évora · 2027But today there are also new issues that have come to anchor the bid's approach – issues generated and amplified by the pandemic crisis, as well as by collective responses being developed at the European level, where new challenges are…

Eindhoven 2018 — Final selectionBid books · Eindhoven · 2018…35.50 Figures in millions of euros NB: The reduction in the total annual budget is the result of local and central government cutbacks in response to the financial crisis.

Riga 2014Bid books · Riga · 2014Potential threats and crisis communication The project Management group must be prepared for several po- tential sources of risk: 1. The potential change of political power on local and national level, and a potentially poor interest in…

Nürnberg 2025 — Pre-selectionBid books · Nürnberg · 2025The aim was formulated in response to the expe- rience of war and displacement that Europe had undergone – a history which the city of Nürnberg had played a pivotal role in shaping, with disastrous conse- quences.

Cultural Development Plan „Cultural Vision 2030“ (English) (Bad Ischl 2024)Strategies & action plans · 2024Photo: © Private Building in the crisis In times of crisis, the economical use of material resources is essential. Climate change requires the development of simple, resilient, and above all, economical construction techniques, building…

Bad Ischl 2024 — 1st monitoring reportMonitoring & progress reports · Bad Ischl · 2024The region feels it has to counter the crisis; the ECOC is considered an essential element of their recovery plan. The two most affected sectors (i.e. tourism and culture) are at the core of the ECOC bid.

Plovdiv 2019Bid books · Plovdiv · 2019…especially in the field of education and social innovation such as the projects The Мobile Educational Centres in Stolipinovo and is a complex response to the complexity of challenges in urban, social and cultural contexts.

Bourges 2028 — Final selectionBid books · Bourges · 2028Find a response to the crisis of representation in France and in Europe by integrating local and European citizens into the governance of Bourges 2028 and exploring cultural rights.

EC Ex-Post Evaluation — Guimarães, MariborEvaluations · Guimarães & Maribor · 2012(Each respondent could choose only ONE of the following responses.) Response Total % of responses 1 Much better image 18 2 Slightly better image 8 3 About the same 1 4 Worse image 0 5 Don't know 5 Total respondents: 32 0% 20% 40% 60% 80%…

Linz 2009 — Evaluation ReportEvaluations · Linz · 2009The ECOC also had the misfortune to be struck by a major external problem: the 2008 financial crisis which caused problems in government budgets and the collapse of the country's main airline.

Delphi 2021 — Pre-selectionBid books · Delphi · 2021The Memorandum is subject to change, without compromise to its clarity and usability. (http://del- phi2021.eu/emergency-response) The aim is to obtain specific and detailed answers to the questions: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY.

Nürnberg 2025 — Final selectionBid books · Nürnberg · 2025…have already es- tablished can actually be main- tained remains to be seen, and depends heavily on how the econ- omy fares in the wake of the crisis.

Rijeka 2020 — Evaluation ReportEvaluations · Rijeka · 2020The very next day, the Mayor, following the instructions of the Civil Protection Headquarters, a national crisis management body, informed the public about the postponement of all public events, and the company RIJEKA 2020 did the same for…

Siena 2019 — Pre-selectionBid books · Siena · 2019The city must be further solidified, to make the bid even more credible as a concrete, widely agreed response to the city’s main urgencies; • Finally, the same tendency to individual- istic isolation that exists at the people level also…

Faro 2027Bid books · Faro · 2027Europe, and in particular the cultural sector will feel the long-term effects of the crisis; thus, we need to pay much more attention to resilience.

Hildesheim 2025 — Final selectionBid books · Hildesheim · 2025Despite the pandemic crisis city, district and district municipalities remain fully committed to the project and their budgetary decisions. The Federal State of Lower Saxony as well as a number of sponsors already conﬁrmed their…

City marketing (Sibiu 2007)Frameworks & research · 2007…find themselves forced to redefine their identity, due to the decrease of other types of industries under the impact of the global economic crisis and the economic reset.

Cagliari 2019 — Final selectionBid books · Cagliari · 2019…has given the institutions and citizens a common objective that has led to the singling out of new models for socioeconomic development in response to the structural crisis of the old paradigms.

Larissa 2021 — Pre-selectionBid books · Larissa · 2021Crisis (from the Greek word krisis) as the turning point, the selection, the judgment, opening up opportunities, for talent (inclination, desire, will) to emerge and be integrated, to bring into being, produce, production, leading to…

Utrecht 2018 — Pre-selectionBid books · Utrecht · 2018Wise words, which take on even greater significance in times of crisis. On its way to 2018, Utrecht will throw all its windows and doors wide open.

Zadar 2020 — Pre-selectionBid books · Zadar · 2020DEPRESSED ECONOMY CREATES DEPRESSED PEOPLE3 Nowhere does the economic crisis last as long as in Croatia! Even the majority of European countries are officially out of recession a few years ago, the situation in this part of Europe is…

Perugia 2019 — Pre-selectionBid books · Perugia · 2019…Culture 2019 in order to mobilize all the resources of the city and the surrounding territory in such a way as to react to the anthropological crisis that is characterizing not only the local reality but, to some extent, all European…

Galway 2020 — Monitoring ReportEvaluations · Galway · 2020An increasing recognition of the nature of the pandemic made it clear that it was not a short-term crisis. A proposal was put to the Department by the Galway 2020 Board and Senior Management as to how Galway 2020 could continue.

Tampere 2026 — Pre-selectionBid books · Tampere · 2026…more important – and we’ve started to think how to use our toolkit (of which cultural sustainability is an integral part) to recover from the crisis.

Three Sisters 2020 — Final selectionBid books · Three Sisters · 2020Our response is to develop a multi-faceted festival to celebrate and interrogate its origins and manifesta- tions. The festival will be hosted across a range of platforms with partners including the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and their…

České Budějovice (Budweis) 2028Bid books · České Budějovice (Budweis) · 2028Unpredictable global crisis affecting the Budweis 2028 programme, inflation, escalation of the Russian war. MARKETING Public misunderstanding of ECOC and failure to identify with the project / negative perceptions of Budweis 2028.

Donostia-San Sebastián 2016Bid books · Donostia-San Sebastián · 2016With this aim, compared to the general pre- dicted crisis of minority languages, h(eizkuntza articulates itself is structured as a system that tries to open alternative and informal routes in addition to official language policies.