In a context of competing policy priorities and limited public resources, oftentimes existing public funding mechanisms for culture are not able to properly support cultural actors in their local socio-cultural work and as players within the contemporary global creative scene. This is a challenge faced by the independent cultural scenes of many post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe, including Moldova. … Download our report: Rethinking the Institutional Design of Project-Based Public Funding for Culture in the Eastern Neighbourhood Region

The report, written by Violeta Simjanovska and Katerina Mojanchevska, provides an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in North Macedonia, and offers insights into the challenges and needs of the sector, as well as the mitigation measures implemented to address them. It has been developed based on data collected through a combination of surveys and … Download our report: Impact of Covid-19 on the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in North Macedonia

The war in Ukraine has affected all swaths of life, including the cultural sector in the country. In such exceptional circumstances, the Cultural Relations Platform (CRP) has been coordinating an activity in order to support the Ukrainian cultural sector. As its first step, the project experts Anna Karnaukh and Kateryna Kravchuk developed a document that presents a preliminary … Download our report “Ukrainian Cultural Actors Mapping and Needs Assessment”

This report offers an analysis of the value chains of three cultural subsectors in Palestine: crafts, product design, and music. In doing so, it sheds light on how to enhance employability and the promotion of CCI products in the West Bank & Gaza. This report serves as a pilot initiative for other cultural sub-sectors in the … Download our report: Value Chain Analysis of Music, Crafts and Product Design in Palestine

In 2022, the Cultural Relations Platform has been supporting the EU Delegation to Jamaica in developing a mapping showing the added value of creative industries existing in Kingston, Jamaica, fostering the dialogue between them and facilitating their linkages with Europe. In this context the two experts, Deborah Hickling Gordon and Stefanie Thomas Gilbert-Roberts, have implemented different actions: This work resulted … Download our report: Mapping Kingston’s Networks of Culture

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Cultural and Creative Sectors in the EU’s Partner Countries The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted economies, societies and political systems worldwide. Culture as a sector and international cultural relations have not been exempted either. Indeed, the social, political and economic characteristics of the pandemic have had deep implications for … Impact of COVID-19 on CCS in Partners Countries