The ECoC evidence base
Forty years of European Capitals of Culture in their own words: what cities promised, what they did, and what the evaluations found.
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cities
evaluations
bid books
title years covered
Ex-post and independent evaluations: what actually happened.
Cities' own reports on how their programme was going, written while it ran.
What cities promised. Statements of intent, not outcome.
The EU expert panel's pre-selection and final selection (jury) reports, and its monitoring reports on designated cities' preparations. An outside view, not a city's own evidence; a city's own report to the panel is marked as such.
Legal framework, guides and calls, the Commission's evaluations, and reference studies written for the EU institutions.
How cities planned to deliver and to keep going.
Cross-city studies, frameworks, guides and conference papers.
Cities' own documents, offered to the Archive and checked by Culture Next. Each one credits the city that shared it.
Everything members have sent to Encore by email, searchable straight away.
Documents cities chose to make public.
