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European Funds
for Culture & Education
David Röthler
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Overview
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Basics
Culture 2000
SOKRATES
Other Action Programmes
Structural Funds
Excursus: Other sources of funding
Guidelines for successful applications
Internet-Links
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Legal Basis
• Treaty of Maastricht, Art. 151 - Culture
1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States,
while respecting their national and regional diversity and at the same time bringing the
common cultural heritage to the fore.
2. Action by the Community shall be aimed at encouraging cooperation between Member
States and, if necessary, supporting and supplementing their action in the following
areas:
— improvement of the knowledge and dissemination of the culture and history of the
European peoples,
— conservation and safeguarding of cultural heritage of European significance,
— non-commercial cultural exchanges,
— artistic and literary creation, including in the audiovisual sector.
3. The Community and the Member States shall foster cooperation with third countries
and the competent international organisations in the sphere of culture, in particular the
Council of Europe.
4. The Community shall take cultural aspects into account in its action under other
provisions of this Treaty, in particular in order to respect and to promote the diversity
of its cultures.
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Legal Basis
• Treaty of Maastricht, Art. 149, 150 EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL TRAINING
AND YOUTH
• 1. The Community shall contribute to the
development of quality education by
encouraging cooperation between Member
States and, if necessary, by supporting and
supplementing their action, while fully
respecting the responsibility of the Member
States for the content of teaching and the
organisation of education systems and
their cultural and linguistic diversity. […]
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Culture & EU-Funding
• There are many different programmes
which allow the funding of cultural
activities.
• But: Most programmes require a
project focus on other objectives like
education, development of tourism,
social aims, employment…
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Basics: EU-Funding
Programmes
Basically two types of programmes:
• Trans-national funds (Action
Programmes), operated by different
departments of the EU aimed to many
different issues (culture, education, youth,
health, environment, research…)
• Structural Funds, aimed to address
economic imbalances in disadvantaged
areas of the European Union
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Culture 2000
• Promotes cultural diversity
• Encourages co-operation between Member States
and participating countries
• Supports artistic creation preserving the common
cultural heritage.
• Innovation & creativity
• European added value
• Addresses the citizen
• Use of new technology (Internet, Media)
• Tradition and innovation; linking the past and the
future
• Dissemination (reach the general public by
innovative means of communication)
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Culture 2000 Calls & Deadlines
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Calls are announced in summer
Deadlines in autumn
Project duration: 1 to 3 years
Call often specifies one focus (2002:
Visual Arts; 2003: Performing Arts;
2004: Heritage)
• This year (2005) no specific focus
• Call will be published in early summer
2004, deadline in October/November
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Requirements & Funding
• 1-year-projects: Co-organisers
required from at least three eligible
countries, contribution € 50-150,000
up to 50% of the budget
• Multiannual projects (24-36 months):
Minimum of five participating
countries, contribution up to
€ 300,000 /year up to 60% of the
budget
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Schedule for Culture 2000
• Call expected in June 2004
• Deadline October/November 2004
• Decision of the Commission May
2005
• Projects will start some months later
(summer 2005) after contract with the
Commission was signed
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Information
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/culture/
www.culture2000.info
National “Cultural Contact Points”
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Future of Culture 2000
• Programme was already extended until
2006
• Beyond 2006: focus on European
citizenship as a main priority.
• Shared values freedom, fairness,
tolerance, solidarity
• Participation & dialogue, mobility, youth
and exchange of citizens
• Co-operation between artists, cultural
institutions. Audiovisual media, intercultural
dialogue. Reflection of reality.
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Project example
• APAP: www.apap.net
Advancing Performing Arts Project
• International network of co-operation to
support young artists in the field of
dance/performance/ new theatre
• Activities: joint workshops, performances,
co-operation with local artists, many project
meetings with the aim to foster links
between partner institutions
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Education & Training
Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci
Vocational training action programme
Supports
• Lifelong training policies
• Physical & Virtual mobility
• Innovative pilot projects
• Promotion of language skills
• Further information at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/progra
mmes/leonardo/leonardo_en.html
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Education & Training
Socrates
• Many different actions:
8 main actions and 49 sub-actions
• Comenius: school education
• Erasmus: higher education, exchange
programmes
• Grundtvig: adult education, lifelong learning
• Lingua: leaning European languages
• Minerva: ICT in education
• Observation and innovation
• Joint actions with other programmes
• Supplementary measures
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Eligibility
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Schools
Universities
Adult education institutions
Associations, federations
Authorities
SMEs
Research institutions
Museums, libraries, prisons
• 25 Member States, EFTA-States (Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway), Bulgaria, Romania,
Turkey
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Procedures
• Some actions have two selection
procedures (pre-proposal, full proposal)
• Pre-Proposal: November 1st, 2004
• Full Proposal: March 1st, 2005
• Decision July 2005
• Project starts autumn 2005
• Preparatory visits funded
• Project duration up to two years, funding
up to € 100,000 per year and 60% of
eligible costs
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Project example, Grundtvig
• “Contemporary Serious Music as a
Method and Way of Education and
Guidance of Adults”
This project is about finding new ways
of creativity for unemployed people
through dealing with contemporary
music.
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Youth-Programme
• Addresses young people between 13
and 30 years
• Promotes a greater sense of
solidarity, active involvement in the
European ideal, encouragement of
spirit of initiative
• Different actions from individual
mobility (European Voluntary Service)
to large co-operation projects
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Tempus
• Development of the higher education
systems through
• Co-operation with institutions from the
Member States
• Designed to help in the transition and
reform processes
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Eligible Institutions
• Higher education institutions
(universities)
• non-governmental organisations,
business companies
• industries and public authorities.
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Tempus – Eligible Countries
• 25 Member states
• Western Balkan Countries: Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslavian Republic of
Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
• Eastern European and Central Asian: Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan;
• Mediterranean Partners: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel,
Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, and Tunisia
• On a self-financing basis:
Candidate Countries Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey and
Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Norway,
New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States of America
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What does Tempus do?
• Helping to establish new courses or
reforming old ones
• Helping educational institutions to
restructure
• Encouraging institutions (academic
and non-academic) to work together
in a particular discipline
• Tempus Programme is not
designed to support research
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How does Tempus work?
• By co-financing, by encouraging cooperation, by encouraging exchanges of
individuals and of know-how
Three sorts of grants:
• Joint European Projects (2-3 years)
• Structural and Complementary Measures
(short term, small budget, easy application)
• Individual Mobility Grants
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Tempus – Further Information
• http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/t
empus/
• http://www.etf.eu.int/tempus
• National Contact Points
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Other Programmes
• IST – Information Society
Technologies Programmes (part of
the 6th Framework Programme)
• E-content Programme: (commercial
exploitation of European digital
content)
• LIFE: Protection of the environment
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Enlargement
• PHARE: Support for new member
countries and former Soviet Union. New
projects only for remaining candidate
countries (Bulgaria, Romania) Aim is to
support economic restructuring and
political change. Few cultural projects
supported.
• TACIS: Support of the transition process
(democratization) in CEE and Asia
• SAPARD: Support for agriculture in new
member countries
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Co-operation with non-member
countries
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MEDA: Mediterranean countries
ACP: Africa, Caribbean, Pacific
ALA: Asia
ALA: Latin America
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Structural Funds
• Aimed to close the gap between advanced
and less developed regions
• Three distinct mechanisms
- regional allocations (Objective 1 and 2
areas)
- Community initiatives
- “Innovative Actions”
• Structural Funds are the most important
EU-funding instrument for culture in terms
of budget.
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Regional Allocations
• Objective 1: Eligible areas are those
that have less than 90% of EU
average GDP (gross domestic
product). A wide variety of projects is
being funded. Top priority: protection
of the population threatened by
unemployment
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Regional Allocations
• Objective 2: assists specific regions which
aim at economic and social reorientation.
• Objective 3: operates anywhere outside
Objective 1 areas. Focus is innovative
vocational training activities and
employment initiatives. Funding (ESF) is
available, for people with difficulties in
obtaining access to the job market.
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Community Initiatives
(Structural Funds)
• INTERREG III encourages cross border,
trans-national an interregional co-operation
• URBAN II funds projects in towns suffering
from economic and social difficulties
• LEADER+ funds rural development
projects
• EQUAL funds training and employability
projects to combat discrimination in the
labour market
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INTERREG III
• Most important Community Initiative
in terms of budget and strategically
• Aim: national borders should not be a
barrier…
• A: cross-border co-operation
• B: transnational co-operation
• C: interregional co-operation
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INTERREG IIIA
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INTERREG IIIA
• Cross-border co-operation
• Social inclusion, protection of the environment, cross-border
tourism
• http://europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/interreg3/
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INTERREG IIIB
• Transnational
cooperation
„Alpine
Space“
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INTERREG IIIB
• CADSES:
Central,
Adriatic,
Danubian and
South-East
Europe
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INTERREG IIIC
• Exchanges of experience and good
practice between Member States and
with third countries concerning crossborder and transnational co-operation
• All Member states, funding for third
countries with PHARE and other
programmes
• http://www.interreg3c.net
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LEADER+
• Liaison Entre Actions pour le
Développement de L´Économie Rurale
• Assists rural communities in improving the
quality of life and economic prosperity in
their local area.
• Applies only to the „old“ Members of the
EU
• Many innovative cultural projects in rural
areas funded
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/rur/leaderplus/
www.leader-austria.at
www.leaderplus.de
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EQUAL
• New means of combating all forms of
discrimination in the labour market
through transnational co-operation
• Funding through ESF (European
Social Fund)
• Cultural projects which fulfil
requirements can be funded
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Excursus: Other sources of
funding
• Foundations
www.stiftungsindex.de
www.eurocult.org
www.soros.org
• Sponsoring: „Social Corporate
Responsibility“
• Prizes
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How to Start – Steps towards
Success
• Identification of the appropriate
programme for your project idea:
many programmes are relevant to the
arts and cultural sector but the focus
is often different!
• Most programmes are “transnational”:
You need a minimum of three or four
partner organisations
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Steps towards Success
• It is an advantage if you know your
partners in advance and have worked
already together!
• Well developed partnerships are a
key factor for successful applications
and projects
• Identify similar projects
• Identify sources of co-financing your
project
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Steps towards Success
• Monitor calls for proposals
• Carefully read the application form
and supporting documentation (every
programme will differ more or less
from another!)
• Prepare application in consultation
with partners
• Inform your local contact point about
your application
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Why European Partners
• Apart from formal requirements
European partners give your project
an European dimension
• Choose partners from different
European regions
• What is the specific role of each
partner? Do they bring new and
different strengths to a project?
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European Dimension
• What is your project's approach to
Europe?
• Do you understand the goals of the
European Union?
• Does the project go beyond national
interests?
• Transfer of know-how Europe-wide?
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Partners
• Compatibility (similar values & goals)
• Communications (E-mail, quick
responses)
• Experience in carrying out EU-funded
projects is an asset
• Stability
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How to search partners
• Start early (even if you are not currently
thinking about a specific project)
• Contact potential partners via E-mail
• Use Google to identify them
• Use specific data-bases e.g. for Culture
2000 http://agora.mcu.es/pcc/index.htm
• Join international meetings organised by
national contact points
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Other points to consider
• Project must not be started before
official project lifetime
• How much money can your
organisation invest? EU-funding
covers almost never 100%. Usually
30-75%
• Co-financing: national/regional funds,
foundations, sponsoring…
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Other points to consider
• Duration of application procedures –
project starts sometimes more than one
year after submission of application.
• Is your project/idea innovative?
(partnership, sustainability, methodology,
ICT, type of co-operation)
• Dissemination: Make project results
accessible, many European citizens should
have an advantage of your project
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Links
• http://europa.eu.int/
The European Union web-site
• http://www.euclid.info
International network, information on funding for
culture
• http://www.europa-foerdert-kultur.info
German web-site
• http://www.dschungelbuch-nrw.de/
German web-site about funding of culture
• http://www.kulturrat.de/
Deutscher Kulturrat
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Contact
David Röthler
Maria-Cebotari-Str. 69, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Tel +43-662-650986, Fax -30
Mobile +43-676-7312088
[email protected]
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• Main fields of interest:
Consulting for EU-funded projects, project
management
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