Anita Pollack
European Consultant
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EU REPORT for EAC and EAA NOVEMBER2015
Luxembourg Presidency:
European Capitals of Culture 2015: Mons, Belgium
and Pizen, Czech Republic
EU Green City 2015: Bristol, UK
European Year of Development
This is the last EU briefing.
The European Commission has drastically cut back on the amount of legislation it is putting forward and there is nothing much forthcoming of interest to archaeology.
The next Presidency will be held by the Netherlands, January to June 2016.
EU Capitals of Culture 2016 are Donostia/San Sebastian and Wroclaw
EU Green City will be Ljubljana
FUNDING
Much of this information is not new; some is repeated if still valid.
CREATIVE EUROPE
Now is the time to be founding partnerships for any future possible bids. For all details see here:
Or contact national culture points. Deadlines are October so there is plenty of time to develop projects for 2016.
EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION - INTERREG
Interreg Europe
First call closed. A new website has been launched –
It is worth checking this from time to time to see when there are new calls.
North Sea Region
A Call 2 “interwork” event will be held in Amsterdam 9 – 10 December for advice and guidance on submitting an expression of interest for the second call. See details here: It may be difficult to find a possibility for archaeology in this region’s programmes.First call closed. Dates for second call not yet posted.
Here you can see a list of project ideas: Priority 3 on Sustainability is the most relevant one:
Baltic Sea Region
The Revised Action Plan has been agreed. Reports of the Berlin Development workshop are on the web site. First call closed.
No news yet of a second call. The web site has a project data base.
North West Europe Region
Nothing new. Second call deadline 30 November. For contact points in each member state go to the Contacts tab on the above website. The following link gives information about the application process and the manual.
The European Commission has launched an EU Strategy for the Alpine Region.
Central Europe Region
The second call will open in April 2016. The main website offers a link for those interested in posting project ideas or partner searches. There will be a launch conference for the EU strategy for the Alpine Region, 25-26 January in Brdo, Slovenia. See here:
Atlantic Area
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Priority 4 on environment protection and promotion of cultural identity(enhancing bio-diversity and the natural and cultural assets) will be the one to watch.
The European Commission has finally approved the Atlantic Area Progamme and the first call is expected in the first half of 2016. Check the web site to look for dates.
South East Europe Region
Nothing new. This programme has three separate sections: Adriatic-Ionian, Danube and Balkan-Mediterranean. The Danube Transnational Programme has approved a provision partnersearch platform which can be accessed from this web site.
Priority 2 for the Adriatic-Ionian Region is “to promote the sustainable valorisation and preservation of natural and cultural assets as growth assets in the Adriatic-Ionian region.” Ou can register for email alerts here:
Priority 2.2 for the Danube Region is “to foster sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage and resources.” First call closed. Its website is here:
Details of the first call are here:
For the Balkan-Mediterranean region, although there is an environment priority it is hard to see cultural heritage fitting in. There is a provisional website designed to help prepare for the first call, which has not yet officially been announced.
General website for this region is:
Interreg VB
There is a fourth priority of great interest – Protecting, promoting and developing cultural and natural heritagefor the northern periphery and arctic programme. Suggest contacting the person below for more detail.
The contact, in order to find out more about this fourth priority is
Third call opened on 30 September and closes on 30 November, for priorities three and four.
Also see here:
For the NW Europe Region of this programme, the second call closes on 30 November. The nearest relevant priority is priority 3: “Protecting the environment and promoting energy efficiency”. See here:
HORIZON 2020 (research programme)
Era-Net in Horizon 2020
I find this web site fairly impenetrable. You need to be registered properly with it for it to work, so it’s up to organizations directly to sort it out.
Heritage Portal
Nothing new.
To see information on several projects on archaeology, go direct to this link:
Listed below are several that may be of interest (some were listed last time and are being kept on because they have not yet happened).
Symposium in Amsterdam on material culture of cooking tools and techniques to be held on 15-16 January 2016. See here: However Registration details do not yet appear to be there.
What Does Heritage Change conference 6 – 10 June 2016, Canada. Call for papers deadline 1 November. See here:
Landscape Values: Place and Praxis conference 29 June – 2 July 2016, NUI Galway, Ireland. Registration will open on 1st December. For information see here:
To access the EraWatch web site go to:
You need to select a country on this site to progress to further information.
POLICY
CULTURE COUNCIL
The Education, Youth, Culture and Sports Council meeting was held on November 23 and 24 in Brussels. Here are links to two relevant declarations:
The Luxembourg Presidency pressed for a European Year of Cultural Heritage. No decision has yet been taken on this. Ministers also agreed that digitization of cultural heritage and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation are essential to highlight the importance of cultural heritage. For more, see here:
In the Netherlands Presidency to come during the first half of 2016, that government plans an EU2016 Creative Challenge Call. Here is the web site, which may be worth watching:
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