Culture plays a key role in advancing the EU's geopolitical priorities. It fosters intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding, safeguards and promotes cultural heritage, and contributes to economic growth and job creation through vibrant cultural and creative industries.
In EU external relations, work on culture is guided by co-creation, people-to-people exchanges, and mutual respect. These principles shape the way partnerships and programmes are created, ensuring they are inclusive and collaborative.
Culture in the external action is guided by the EU Strategy for International Cultural Relations, which identifies three main axes:
The New European Consensus on Development, the New Agenda for Culture, the European Framework of Action on Cultural Heritage, and the EU Council Resolution on the Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Development develop this approach further.
The approach to culture in international partnerships also reflects the EU Global Gateway strategy, which promotes sustainable and trusted connections among peoples. Building people-to-people relations within and between countries and continents is essential for creating lasting partnerships based on shared values.
The contents from Culture and Development - Action and Impact are being merged and updated to this Group
The Mobility Grant Call for Artists & Cultural Professionals under Create and Connect Sub-Saharan Africa have been launched! Create & Connect falls under the Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture (AEPC), a 30 Mio EUR initiative...
Under the EU funded Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture: Sub-Saharan Africa, the Goethe Institut is launching the Individual Mobility Grant. The grants are to enable artists from sub-Saharan Africa to tour the continents and to...
Under the Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture programme, the Southern Africa Component’s first calls for proposals will grant heritage organisation that manage heritage sites or are closely connected to heritage practices up to...
Connect & Create Component of the Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture Programme Call for Mobility Grants for Artists and Culture Professionals Rolling Call - Opens 28 August 2025 | Quarterly Cut-off Dates Launch Date: 28 August...
How to achieve positive impact during exceptional times? In the light of recent global developments, the importance of fact-based, balanced and non-discriminate media coverage, education and forward-taking dialogue on migration...
International Partnerships InfoPoint
In 2015, world leaders pledged to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. They also promised to eradicate poverty and hunger, to secure peace and prosperity, to protect the planet, and to leave no...
New Publication English edition Gijs de Vries (2020), Culture in the Sustainable Development Goals: the Role of the European Union (Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen); https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/69719...
Inscription des Cultures créoles au Patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’UNESCO, Cette initiative fait partie du processus impliquant les États qui se proposent d’inscrire des éléments de leur patrimoine sur la Liste du patrimoine...
Are you an artist in Sub Saharan Africa and your work is in danger because of the COVID-19 crisis? Africalia offers 50 grants with a contribution of €1,500 per artist, in its countries of intervention (namely: Burkina Faso...
