EUNIC – EU National Institutes for Culture – in partnership with the European Capitals of Culture 2023: Timișoara (Romania), Elefsina/Eleusis (Greece), and Veszprém-Balaton (Hungary) is pleased to announce an Open Call for participation in the 7th Cultural Management Academy programme.
About Cultural Management Academy
CMA is a professional programme designed to improve capacity building and to support the cultural operators in the region to develop an environment of sustainability in the cultural field, encouraging the resilience of the sector by supporting the development of co-created transversal and transnational projects. Furthermore, the programme generates cross-sectorial innovation, connecting culture with a heterogenous landscape of related fields like creative industries, digital technologies, humanities, sciences etc. CMA will focus on bringing together cultural operators from the independent and public sector in order to find the best solutions for sustainability of the cultural field.
Continuity and transformation of cultural practices beyond the European Capital of Culture year - Resource awareness and networked-creativity as Legacy generators.
In this year's edition of the CMA, we aim to explore different types of practices and their support for creation, their sustainability and their ability to self-perpetuate with the prospect of diminished funding, after the Title year, but with continued dialogue, learning, and network design. We are looking for existing communities of sustainable practices and networks that develop such approaches and focus on working with them on these subjects. In addition, we plan on asking the following questions:
- What is common between the ECOCs in terms of sustainability?
- How to generate alternative funding and material / human capabilities?
- How to connect networks? Who knows who… and what is, really, a partnership?
- What are the ECOCs introducing for community engagement and participatory process?
- How to sustain and develop decentralized cultural practices that proved optimal in terms of results and resources, and are developed by small local and independent operators, after ECOC?
Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own practice and refer to other existing practices in the ECoC cities to have a critical approach and to identify strategies, methods, tools and resources that can be sustained via innovative cultural management practices, whatever future context might be.
CMA 2023 offers the opportunity to learn from international trainers and develop new skills, to share ideas that will contribute to the development of the cultural sector through a continuous process of reflection on the ECoC journey and the road ahead.
The programme is curated by a representative from each ECoC 2023 implementation team:
- Angeliki Lampiri / ECoC 2023 Eleusis
- Krisztina Forro / ECoC 2023 Veszprém-Balaton
- Alex Boca / ECoC 2023 Timișoara
In 2023, the Academy will be structured for the first time in 3 working sessions, each hosted by a European Capital of Culture in 2023 according to the following timeline:
Session 1: 10-16.07.2023, Timișoara, România
Session 2: 06.-10.09.2023, Veszprém, Ungaria
Session 3: 11.-15.11.2023, Elefsina, Grecia
Selected participants will attend all 3 sessions, and it is essential to be available on the dates listed above. A total of 15 participants will be selected for the CMA 2023: 5 participants from each of the 3 ECoC cities (or the region).
Open Call for cultural managers living and working in one of the ECoC cities or the region: Timișoara (Romania), Elefsina/Eleusis (Greece), and Veszprém-Balaton (Hungary).
Please submit your application until 11.06.2023.