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Culture Action Europe (CAE) is a European network of cultural organisations and individuals dedicated to promote culture as a necessary condition for sustainable development both at local and European scale. Culture Action Europe has been working in close collaboration with the Committee on Culture of UCLG since 2014, particularly bringing its experience and its expertise as main partner of the Pilot City programme in Europe.

The City of Gdańsk and the European Committee of the Regions organise every year the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award for courage and excellence in the promotion of freedom, solidarity and equality.

The Award represents a strong signal of hope for all elected representatives, officials and ordinary citizens who, despite the risks, live to make democracy work at a local level by supporting better and more open communities.

​The new edition of the award was launched at the CIVEX commission meeting in the European Committee of the Regions on the 20 June 2023.

Nominations will be open until the 31 October 2023. For full Nominations Criteria please check here. Click here

More information here.

The Committee on Culture of UCLG has a partership with IN SITU "Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas", a 4-year project that combines research and experimental actions to advance the innovation-related practices, capacities, and potential of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) based in non-urban areas of the EU countries.

IN SITU is currently exploring how cultural and creative practices can help tackle place-based issues in six non-urban areas representing the six IN SITU Labs: Azores, Portugal; Western coastal region, Ireland; Western region, Iceland; Rauma and Eurajoki municipalities, Finland; Valmiera County, Latvia; Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. As an outreach partner of this project, the Committee on Culture supports a survey on 'Mapping of cultural and creative projects & selection of case studies', which aims at mapping projects proposing cultural and creative responses to key place-based issues in the six IN SITU lab locations and at identifying the two most relevant, impactful and innovative projects in each Lab location. The survey is now closed. We will keep you updated about new developments soon.

At the beginning of June, the IN SITU researchers met in Finland to present their findings and reports -- D1.1. and D2.1. -- that can be accessed through this website link.

This fall, the In Situ initiative just launched a series of three webinars on Creative Viability in Non-urban Areas, which will address key themes that support the work of cultural and creative ecosystems in non-urban areas in Europe. The first webinar, entitled "What contributes to the viability of creative small-scale entreprises (CCIs) in non-urban areas?" took place online on 28 September 2023, and the second one, entitled "How can CCI innovation ecosystems be fostered in non-urban areas?" was organised on 30 November 2023. 

The last webinar took place on 5 December 2023 under the title "How does cultural and creative work contribute to place-based sustainability and resiliency?". The video recording is available here.

More info here!

The Cultural Development Network (CDN) advocates for the essential role of arts and cultural expression in the development of creative, healthy, engaged and sustainable communities and support local government cultural development staff and others to assist and resource local communities to make and express their own culture. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The UCLG Committee on culture has developed a joint partnership with the British Council since 2019 for the collection, identification and promotion of good practices on culture, sustainable development and the UN 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The British Council is the UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. It works with over 100 countries in the field of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Last year, it reached over 80 million people directly and 791 million people overall including online, broadcasts and publications. The British Council makes a positive contribution to the countries it works with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust. Founded in 1934, it is a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body. The Biritsh Council receives a 15 per cent core funding grand from the UK government.

The British Council's aims to explore the value of arts, culture and creativity for sustainable development. It facilitates creative responses to global challenges.

So far the collaboration with the British Council has resulted into the publication of various good practices on culture and sustainable development, including from the cities of Athens, Kathmandu, Karachi and soon Ramallah.

Increasingly, the world cannot afford divergent ‘sustainable development’ and ‘climate action’ agendas, but must be fully integrated. In line with Culture 21 Actions (which includes a dedicated Commitment to ‘cultural factors as accelerators in environmental responsibility’), the UCLG Committee on Culture promoted a report on ‘The role of culture in climate resilient development’.

The report ‘The role of culture in climate-resilient development’ aims to document initiatives of cities and local and regional governments around the world related to cultural policies, sustainable cities and climate-resilient development. It includes a diverse range of case studies from all continents related to all the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda (SDGs). This document received contributions until July 2021.

This report was commissioned by the UCLG Committee on Culture in collaboration with the Climate Heritage Network (Working Group 5). It was coordinated by Andrew Potts (Climate Heritage Network - CHN) and the Secretariat of the UCLG Committee on Culture.

A draft of the report was presented on 9 September 2021 during the UCLG Culture Summit in Izmir and virtually, on the occasion of the parallel session "Culture and the Climate Emergency. Local experiences towards COP26". The final version of the report was published on 5 November 2021.