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European Funds for Culture Education

• David Röthler
• www.interart.at

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Overview

• 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.
• 5. .

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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

• 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

• 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.netAdvancing 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 TrainingLeonardo da Vinci

• Leonardo da VinciVocational 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/e
  ducation/programmes/leonardo/leonardo_en.html

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Education TrainingSocrates

• 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

• 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 co-operation, 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/tempus/
• 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

• 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/interreg
  3/

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INTERREG IIIB

• Trans-national co-operation 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
  cross-border 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
  LÉconomie 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
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/rur/leaderpl
  us/www.leader-austria.atwww.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

• Foundationswww.stiftungsindex.dewww.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.infoInternational network,
  information on funding for culture
• http//www.europa-foerdert-kultur.infoGerman
  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 RöthlerMaria-Cebotari-Str. 69, A-5020
  Salzburg, AustriaTel 43-662-650986, Fax
  -30Mobile [phone]david_at_interart.atwww.i
  nterart.athttp//weblog.interart.at
• Main fields of interestConsulting for EU-funded
  projects, project management