Culture Next

Culture Next is a network supporting cities to implement culture-led city development programmes and policies.

The network was founded in 2017 by current and former candidates for the European Capital of Culture title, and builds on the experiences, participatory processes and collaborations established during the candidacies.

The programme focuses on capacity building for members, organises conferences and annual meetings, and develops a platform for promoting member cities, as well as for facilitating collaborations amongst them. The network aims to become a voice in shaping European cultural policies.

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Objectives

2021

Network reorganization

Launch of the 2021 A Capital Year for Culture program

Launch of the Cities Fund for Culture

Organizing a network meeting in Cluj

Activity calendar

 
IAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAI IUN. IUL. AUG. SEP. OCT. NOI. DEC.
Network restructuring (enlarging the Secretariat, appointing a board, adopting an online calendar of events)
2021 A Capital Year for Culture Activities
Launch of the City Fund
Annual network meeting in Cluj-Napoca

Highlights

2020 2019 2018 2017 2015

October

Culture Next Restart Session, October 15 (online)

An online meeting where we presented the network vision for the following years, with the following three priorities: 1. Build the network's capacity to facilitate sharing of resources and knowledge, peer-to-peer and city-to-city collaboration and support between its member cities; 2. Develop network initiatives to strengthen member cities and turn them into models for capacity building in the cultural sector; 3. Become a relevant voice for cultural policies at the international level.

March

Culture Next # 6 Network Meeting – Oulu, Finland (rescheduled online)

Canceled at the last minute due to the pandemic, the sixth Culture Next meeting, prepared for Oulu, included online discussions about the network development, collaborations between member cities and workshops to prepare the jury's visit. The meeting was grouped in 4 half-day working sessions, around 20 participants each. The CN meeting special guest in Oulu was Steve Green, former president of the British Council and former president of the European ECoC jury.

September

Three Lithuanian cities: Klaipeda, Plunge and Neringa hosted the fifth meeting of the network.

The meeting laid the foundations for one-off collaborations between Culture Next member cities, but also for the network's first joint projects: a city fund to sustain hard-to-fund art projects and a good practice guide for culture and sustainable development in cities.

May

The fourth network meeting, focused on the relationship between culture and tourism, took place in Debrecen, Hungary. .

October

Aveiro is the host of the third network meeting.

It outlined the common principles that animate all the cities in the network. The meeting program included workshops for network members and invited experts, discussions and network activity planning sessions for the next 2 years. There was also a public discussion on "Cultural development of cities - sharing good practices."

May

The second meeting of the network is organized in Cluj-Napoca by the Cluj Cultural Center.

It included the conference "Impact through Culture: From Economic to Social Value Creation", with Pier Luigi Sacco, University Professor, researcher and former advisor to the European Commissioner for Culture and Education.

September

The first conference of the Cities Network took place in Cluj-Napoca, with the participation of 8 co-founding cities of the network.

The conference was attended by representatives from Eleusis (Greece), Aveiro, Braga and Guimaraes (Portugal), Košice (Slovakia), Debrecen (Hungary), Klaipeda and Plunge (Lithuania), Leeds (UK), as well as Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Târgu Mureș, Baia Mare, Alba Iulia and Sfântu Gheorghe. The event provided the framework for establishing the mission and way of working of the Cultural Cities Network initiated by Cluj.

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Șase orașe europene s-au întâlnit în Cluj-Napoca pentru a creiona un concept a ceea ce la început a purtat numele de Rețeaua Orașelor Candidate.

Șase orașe europene s-au întâlnit în Cluj-Napoca pentru a creiona un concept a ceea ce la început a purtat numele de Rețeaua Orașelor Candidate.
Rețeaua are scopul de a reuni orașele europene care pun cultura la baza strategiilor lor de dezvoltare locală.

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