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Forty years of European Capitals of Culture in their own words: what cities promised, what they did, and what the evaluations found.

documents
411

documents

cities
178

cities

evaluations
50

evaluations

bid books
180

bid books

1985–2030

title years covered

All shelvesEvaluations 50Monitoring and progress reports 1Bid books 180Panel reports 86Strategies and action plans 5Research, guides and frameworks 35Sent in by members 54Published by cities 11
TypeBid book (pre-selection) 15Bid book (final selection) 15Monitoring panel report 3Ex-post evaluation 19Strategy 2Research 3Other 1
What the document types mean
Bid book (pre-selection)
A city's first application for the title, judged by the selection panel to make the shortlist.
Evidence of intent: what a city promised, not what it delivered.
Bid book (final selection)
A shortlisted city's full, final application for the title, with its programme, budget and plans.
Evidence of intent: what a city promised, not what it delivered.
Selection panel report
The EU expert panel's assessment of the bids in one competition, with its reasons and its recommendation.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Monitoring panel report
The EU expert panel's report on a designated city's preparations before its title year, with its advice.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Ex-post evaluation
An assessment, written after the title year or a programme, of what it actually achieved, usually by independent evaluators.
Evidence of outcome: what actually happened.
Monitoring or progress report
A city's own report on how its programme is going, written while it runs, with the figures it has tracked.
Evidence of outcome: what actually happened.
Strategy
A city's long-term plan or policy for culture, including legacy strategies and council decisions.
A plan: how a city meant to deliver and keep going.
Action plan
A concrete plan of what a city or organisation will do, by when and with what resources.
A plan: how a city meant to deliver and keep going.
Guide or toolkit
Practical how-to material that others can reuse: guides, toolkits, handbooks and templates.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Research
Studies, frameworks and papers across one or more cities, written by researchers rather than by a city.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Other
Anything else: news, memos, programme brochures and documents that fit no type above.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.

58 documents for “Funding”

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

Found inside the documents

  • Sofia 2019 — Pre-selection
Sofia · 2019

…and transformation of the Munici- pal Cultural Institute “Sredets” into a centre for contemporary performing arts. 7,525,000 BGN 3,836,821 EUR Funding: JESSICA • Renovation and revitalization of The National Palace of Children and the…

  • Chemnitz 2025
    Chemnitz · 2025

    …2025 gGmbH: Contributing to the evaluation process City of Chemnitz/Department of Culture: Working documentation 46 47 6 OVERVIEW CULTURAL FUNDING 2019–2023 This chapter deals with selected data on the City of Chemnitz’s cultural funding…

  • Siracusa & South-East 2019 — Pre-selection
    Siracusa & South-East · 2019

    Istituto Archeologico Germanico di Roma Funding: € 75,000 Internazional Cinema Festival on Frontiers Descriotion: Frontier: not only a land on the margins, but as something tha is in front of us.

  • Culture and Creative Industries Strategy 2026–2035
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno · 2026

    …cooperation decentralisation of CCIs and thus stronger com munity building expats, diversity of cultures active associations multi-source funding, fundraising overall underfunding of CCIs limited funding from the Ministry of Culture of the…

  • Three Sisters 2020 — Final selection
    Three Sisters · 2020

    Support from State Agencies 2.0 6% 1.5 0.5 EU Funding 0.8 3% 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 Melina Mercouri Prize 1.5 5% 1.5 Total 31.0 0.4 2.8 4.0 8.1 14.2 2021 1.3 0.2 1.5 Total 15.0 7.5 3.0 1.2 2.0 0.8 1.5 31.0 It is assumed that the funding from…

  • f59881a3-596e-4ec5-9027-5b7cc8b20dd8-garciaetal-2010-creating_an_impact-impacts08.pdf
    London. Contributed by London and published to everyone.

    Reports available at www.impacts08.net Impacts 08 gratefully acknowledges the funding and commitment from Liverpool City Council in commissioning this research programme, and the engagement of many individuals from within the Council in…

  • Banja Luka 2024 — Final selection
    Banja Luka · 2024

    …are of great importance not only for the project it- self by the means of direct financing of the implementation, but the impact this type of funding is going to have on the city and the region itself.

  • Banja Luka 2024 — Pre-selection
    Banja Luka · 2024
  • Strategy in Practice in Brno: Grants Powering Cultural and Creative Fields

    Brno

    Plan

    Strategy in Practice in Brno: Grants Powering Cultural and Creative Fields
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno

    When it comes to supporting culture and the creative fields, funding is one of the hottest topics around. The City of Brno supports artists, creative professionals and cultural organisations it doesn’t directly run – chiefly through its…

  • EC Ex-Post Evaluation — Umeå, Riga
    Umeå & Riga · 2014

    No direct funding was provided to Sigulda from the Rīga2014 programme meaning it was the ‘badge and brand’ of ECoC that the city used to stimulate funding from their own City Council as well as visitors to the city more generally.

  • Utrecht 2018 — Pre-selection
    Utrecht · 2018

    The contri- bution of the city and province sums up to (just over) € 28 milllion; this is new,€ 28 milllion; this is new,€ additional funding specifically for Utrecht 2018.

  • Esch-sur-Alzette 2022
    Esch-sur-Alzette · 2022

    According to the stipulations of many EU funding programmes, newly established organisations or institutions are usually only eligible for funding after existing for a number of years.

  • St. Pölten 2024 — Pre-selection
    St. Pölten · 2024

    …of Austria. ** No serious figure can be given here at present, as the EU has yet to decide on the budgets/financial framework and the (new) funding programmes for the period of 2021 to 2027.

  • Plovdiv 2019
    Plovdiv · 2019

    The funding that is raised by the community foundation from different donation activities will be matched with the same amount by the WCIF. The local foundation will manage resources provided by a number of donators (large companies…

  • Bodø 2024
    Bodø · 2024

    …and The Regional Development Company BRUS support the European Capital of Culture and the possibility of finding a solution for the private funding of this status”.

  • St. Pölten 2024 — Final selection
    St. Pölten · 2024

    …between the Lower Austrian Government and the Federal Govern- ment/BKA, the Offi ce of the Federal Chancel- lor, in spring 2019 regarding the funding of two projects of the cultural infrastructure list (Chil- dren.Art.Lab and the Former St.

  • Évora 2027 — Pre-selection
    Évora · 2027

    Negotiations are still underway with the funding authorities on the investment amounts presented here; so far there have been no final decisions. The entry into force of the financing framework 2021-2027 - Portugal 2030 should allow most…

  • Limerick 2020 — Pre-selection
    Limerick · 2020

    Initial funding will come from Limerick City and County Council, thus allowing time to further implement our fundraising strategy. 67 | 6.2.3 Have the public finance authorities (City, Region, State) already voted on or made financial…

  • Tartu 2024
    Tartu · 2024

    …was received from the Tartu City Council already in 2018 with the passing of the City of Tartu Budget Strategy 2019–2022, indicating the funding of a potential Tartu 2024 ECoC operating expenditure for these years.

  • OK Analyza brnenske kulturni sceny ENG 2025_WEB.pdf
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.

    …of the Plug&Play project – reducing the bureaucracy involved in renting public spaces. 73 Finance Of all the defined needs of the CCI, funding is the first.

  • OK Analyza brnenske kulturni sceny ENG 2025_WEB
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno

    74 Finance Of all the defined needs of the CCI, funding is the first. Brno is the national leader in terms of per capita funding for culture, see Comparative Analysis of Funding for Culture in Regional Cities .

  • Dornbirn 2024 — Final selection
    Dornbirn · 2024

    …including the Melina Mercouri Prize If we win the title, the federal state of Vorarlberg is willing to hon- our its commitment to tripartite funding.

  • Bielsko-Biała 2029
    Bielsko-Biała · 2029
  • EC Ex-Post Evaluation — Aarhus, Pafos
    Aarhus & Pafos · 2017

    Likewise, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Culture have been actively involved. 2.4.2 Funding The budget for Aarhus 2017, as proposed in the application, was 500m DKK (€66.7m). This was proposed to be expended as follows.

  • Magdeburg 2025 — Final selection
    Magdeburg · 2025

    It is a central part of our desired legacy to empower our local project partners to apply for EU funding. Espe- cially our independent scene needs support in terms of (wo)manpower and knowledge for this.

  • Marseille 2013
    Marseille-Provence · 2013

    4.4.2 Funding A budget of €98m was proposed at both the pre-selection and final selection phases.62 This made Marseille-Provence one of the best-funded ECoC to date and ensured that a critical mass of activity could be implemented across…

  • Novi Sad 2021
    Novi Sad · 2021

    FOR CULTURE TO FINANCE THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE PROJECT, PLEASE INDICATE THIS AMOUNT STARTING FROM THE YEAR OF SUBMISSION OF THE BID UN- TIL THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE YEAR.

  • Nürnberg 2025 — Final selection
    Nürnberg · 2025

    PROJECTS ELIGIBLE FOR EU FUNDING JUSTICE, RIGHTS AND VALUES FUND Projects Arena Europe Boule Europa Talk Forward EYP2025 Making connections (ENCC cooperation) CREATIVE EUROPE Projects Future is … A New Morning (PEN Congress) Big little…

  • Larissa 2021 — Pre-selection
    Larissa · 2021

    Until the submission of the present proposal, the Municipality of Larissa had funding from the implementation of co-funded programmes by the European Commission amounting to 393.000€.

  • Aosta 2019 — Pre-selection
    Aosta · 2019

    In terms of economic resources, some specific comments must be dedicated to EU funding. In this pre- selection phase, it has been decided to conservatively calculate only the amount of the “Melina Mercouri” prize.

  • Ruse 2019 — Pre-selection
    Ruse · 2019

    …the estimated amounts are based on the experience we have gained during the now ending 2007-2013 programming period, nearly 2/3 of the public funding is expected to come from the EU funds; the remaining 1/3 will be formed by equally shared…

  • Leeds 2023 — Pre-selection
    Leeds · 2023

    Whilst 2023 is outside of the budgetary planning period for Arts Council England we have discussed potential funding with its senior officers in order to make a realistic estimate.

  • Dubrovnik 2020 — Final selection
    Dubrovnik · 2020

    Recognizing the fact that the Dubrovnik cultur- al sector has used relatively small amounts from EU funding, the City of Dubrovnik’s Strategy of the Cultural Development for 2015 – 2025 high- lighted the importance of the cultural sector’s…

  • Rouen 2028 — Final selection
    Rouen · 2028

    …authorities Q19 In November 2022, the City of Rouen and the Rouen Normandy Metropolis voted to approve their contribution of 49% of public funding to the overall European Capital of Culture operating budget.

  • Bodø 2024 — Pre-selection
    Bodø · 2024

    Our future challenge and the most important one is how we use that funding to drive our broader strategic vision. 445 . M A N A G E M E N T Q23 Please explain the overall operating budget (i.e.

  • Trenčín 2026
    Trenčín · 2026

    Currently the EU funds for city development are distributed via national ministries that manage the appropriate EU funding schemes. During ECoC bid preparation the new EU funding period 2021—2027 is being negotiated between the Slovak…

  • EC Ex-Post Evaluation — Guimarães, Maribor
    Guimarães & Maribor · 2012

    The funding data shows that the budget planned for the cultural programme during the application phase was delivered in practice. The establishment of funding protocols with the main funders and having all funding sources identified during…

  • Ravenna 2019 — Pre-selection
    Ravenna · 2019

    …and branch offices in Faenza, Cesena, Forlì and Rimini Partners: Mar (Ravenna City Art Museum), Academy of Fine Arts - Ravenna, Isia - Faenza Funding: € 1.000.000 19.

  • Lendava 2025 — Pre-selection
    Lendava · 2025

    …current project by an amount equal to 15% of the entire funding (14% to be precise), which is the average co-financing level of EU projects. We expect a good 10 million EUR from the state and 1.5 million EUR from EU funds, mainly from…

  • Herceg Novi 2021 — Pre-selection
    Herceg Novi · 2021

    Novi anticipates funding 50% of the overall operating budget and the remainder is funded at National level (34%), Region (6,5%) and Private Sector (10%).

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