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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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472

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1985–2031

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All shelvesEvaluations 53Monitoring and progress reports 1Bid books 182Selection and monitoring reports 111EU framework and official documents 27Strategies and action plans 5Research, guides and frameworks 33Shared by cities 1Sent in by members 59Published by cities 12
TypeBid book (pre-selection) 8Bid book (final selection) 17Selection panel report 3Ex-post evaluation 6Monitoring or progress report 2Guide or toolkit 1Research 2Other

40 documents for “Capacity building of cultural sector”

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Bid book (pre-selection)
A city's first application for the title, judged by the selection panel to make the shortlist.
Evidence of intent: what a city promised, not what it delivered.
Bid book (final selection)
A shortlisted city's full, final application for the title, with its programme, budget and plans.
Evidence of intent: what a city promised, not what it delivered.
Selection panel report
The EU expert panel's assessment of the bids in one competition, with its reasons and its recommendation.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Monitoring panel report
The EU expert panel's report on a designated city's preparations before its title year, with its advice.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Ex-post evaluation
An assessment, written after the title year or a programme, of what it actually achieved, usually by independent evaluators.
Evidence of outcome: what actually happened.
Monitoring or progress report
A city's own report on how its programme is going, written while it runs, with the figures it has tracked.
Evidence of outcome: what actually happened.
Strategy
A city's long-term plan or policy for culture, including legacy strategies and council decisions.
A plan: how a city meant to deliver and keep going.
Action plan
A concrete plan of what a city or organisation will do, by when and with what resources.
A plan: how a city meant to deliver and keep going.
Guide or toolkit
Practical how-to material that others can reuse: guides, toolkits, handbooks and templates.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Research
Studies, frameworks and papers across one or more cities, written by researchers rather than by a city.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Other
Anything else: news, memos, programme brochures and documents that fit no type above.
Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Bodø · 2024

Capacity Building Programme Another of our key priorities is capacity building across the cultural sector, both in the city of Bodø and across the county of Nordland.

  • České Budějovice (Budweis) 2028
    České Budějovice (Budweis) · 2028

    …Y B U ACCESSIBLE HERITAGE ILDING YEAR OF GROWING 2025 Budweis 2028 is growing robustly, with projects blossoming to ensure we harvest as many cultural fruits as possible by 2028.

  • Galway 2020 — Monitoring Report
    Galway · 2020

    ECoC objective: Develop the skills, capacity and governance of the cultural sector ECoC objective: Stimulate partnership and co-operation with other sectors ECoC objective: Improve cultural infrastructure Galway 2020 aimed to build the…

  • Bielsko-Biała 2029
    Bielsko-Biała · 2029

    SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE The ECoC process is a major capacity-building accelerator for the cultural and creative sector in our city. In BB there are seven cultural institutions managed by the city, two by the region, and one by the state…

  • Debrecen 2023
    Debrecen · 2023

    Democratic culture – ensuring a wide range of access and availability in the field of cultural goods and services • Decentralised culture – providing equal opportunity for access to culture everywhere in the city Building the image of the…

  • Katowice 2029
    Katowice · 2029

    METROPOLIS OF CULTURE Who can play along: employees of the cultural sector Why do we play: capacity building, networking With whom do we play: culture institutions from Metropolis GZM and Poland, partner institutions from other ECoC cities…

  • Tartu 2024
    Tartu · 2024

    Residencies for artists with disabilities boost inclusion on an European scale. 42 Cultural and artistic content CAPACITY BUILDING: Kultuurikompass The goal of the capacity building programme Kultuurikompass (Culture Compass) is to…

  • Rijeka 2020 — Evaluation Report
    Rijeka · 2020

    For the implementation of the Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture project, it was crucially important to develop capacities within the cultural sector in order to enable the implementation of a rather comprehensive project, but also…

  • Limerick 2020 — Final selection
    Limerick · 2020

    Those programme strands are Home, Quest and Interface 3) Inviting citizens of Europe to participate and belong Building Capacity Capacity-Building is a key objective for us and our Cultural Strategy.

  • Cluj-Napoca 2021
    Cluj-Napoca · 2021

    We have a dynamic cultural life, with a large number of events, yet very few producers have strategies for audience development; the interested people come mainly from the same social segment, and opportunities for cultural education are…

  • Guidelines for the cities' own evaluations of the results of each European Capital of Culture
    2014

    …their ECOC 11 Objectives Type of indicator Indicative indicators Possible sources of data collection Specific objective 3: To strengthen the capacity of the cultural sector and its links with other sectors Result Strategy for long-term…

  • An analysis of the cultural sector in the aftermath of Cork 2005
    Cork · 2005

    233), “boost to the cre- ation of cultural infrastructure” (Luxembourg, 1995,capacity building, community empowerment, im- age enhancement, confidence boosting, and rela- p.

  • GarciaEtAl(2025)FINAL-Monitor2024_Assessing-Bodo2024-European-Capital-of-Culture_small.pdf

    Increased skills and professionalism within the cultural sector. 2. Enhanced collaboration between amateurs and professionals. 3. Expanded international partnerships and cultural exchanges. 4.

  • Piran 2025 — Pre-selection
    Piran · 2025

    …of the European Capital of Culture, and the 5-year process of preparing and delivering the proposed programme, will create the setting for the cultural integration of the four cities involved in this effort.

  • Dubrovnik 2020 — Final selection
    Dubrovnik · 2020
  • Bodø 2024
    Bodø · 2024

    “Bodø2024 was for tourists and the cultural elite, not for us.” Sami Culture Week 2023 | Photo: Fredrik Stenbro | | 7 3 Sami National Day 2023 | Photo: Fredrik Stenbro 74 | | 4.3.

  • Bodø 2024 — Pre-selection
    Bodø · 2024

    But the kind of society we want cannot succeed on gleaming new buildings alone. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES To reverse the image of Nordland – internally and externally To widen the production base for culture To connect with groups still not…

  • Sofia 2019 — Pre-selection
    Sofia · 2019

    Human sustainability will be achieved through massive efforts for capacity building and professionalization of the local cultural sector. Our recently initi- ated Regional Academy for Cultural Managers, the professional forums and…

  • Zadar 2020 — Pre-selection
    Zadar · 2020

    This is why ECoC will help us attract these industries while building the new creative community and new ecosystem. To one point, this process has already been started with a support of the EU funds through the projects such as COIN Zadar…

  • EC Ex-Post Evaluation — 2019 (Matera & Plovdiv)
    Matera & Plovdiv · 2019

    …also thanks to the use of specific calls, about 15,000 citizens participating in the implementation of the Cultural programme were above 55 years old.

  • Selection panel report — Poland ECoC 2029 (pre-selection)
    2029

    There is considerable literature and research available for cities to see the range of cultural, urban development and social benefits of an ECoC.

  • Trnava 2026 — Pre-selection
    Trnava · 2026

    Part of enhancing the cultural experience of the city, is the development of cultural infrastructure. This includes projects that range from the construc- tion of new cycle paths to the restoration of a com- munist building, or the reuse…

  • Kaunas 2022 — 1st monitoring report
    Kaunas · 2022

    Kaunas 2022 will hold an international conference on informal cultural training based on experience and knowledge gained through The Tempo Academy of Culture.

  • Žilina 2026 — Pre-selection
    Žilina · 2026

    …big events like ECoC create disruptions and it is important to manage them wisely in order to achieve a long-lasting positive impact on the cultural scene that would extend beyond the event as such.

  • Piran 2025 — Final selection
    Piran · 2025

    …key projects from the Kultura.PIKA Strategy initiate or participate in EU-projects · work on the climate policy for the cultural sector · develop a cultural network/platform of wider cross- border Istria build on sinergies · take over…

  • České Budějovice 2028 — monitoring report 2024 (city's report)
    České Budějovice · 2028

    …partners and with each other Key results: • A substantial part of the programme (64 activities, 27.4%) was dedicated to the culture sector, with most activities held in České Budějovice and over half being internal or invitation-based.

  • Namur 2030 — Final selection
    Namur · 2030

    LONG-TERM IMPACT: CULTURAL PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL COHESION 002.1 SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS : TENSIONS/ATTENTIONS Ensure that at least 70% of the city’s population has the opportunity to attend cultural events.002.2 Number and quality of…

  • Plovdiv 2019
    Plovdiv · 2019

    All of these public discussions made us realise, however, that it was crucial to start working on what we identified as problems in Plovdiv’s cultural sector right away, not through discussions, but by offering opportunities to the…

  • Elefsina (Eleusis) 2021
    Elefsina (Eleusis) · 2021

    sector (foundations, urban investors etc.) and local Eleusis key actors. In terms of geographical scope, the focus would be mostly on European countries with special emphasis on the Balkan region.

  • Leeuwarden 2018 — European Commission evaluation
    Leeuwarden · 2018

    Nonetheless, there were instances of very high quality and overall the cultural programme offered a diversity of activities of many different artistic disciplines.

  • Ghent2030: Toopen Together. Cultural recharge for a common future
    Gent. Contributed by Gent and published to everyone.Gent · 2024

    Structural consultation between the GKO and the social, care and welfare sectors, to increase dialogue between social needs and artistic planning and programming. 6.

  • Bad Ischl / Salzkammergut 2024
    Bad Ischl / Salzkammergut · 2024

    To establish long-term exchanges with other cities holding the ECoC title, we not only developed links in the cultural program for the title year 2024, but also long-term and capacity building projects.

  • European Capitals of Culture: success strategies and long-term effects (Garcia and Cox, European Parliament, 2013)
    2013

    For organisations involved in Pécs 2010, capacity-building through the undertaking of “more and bigger projects than in previous years” was felt to have been beneficial for the sector (ECORYS, 2011c: v), as was the sense that these…

  • Selection panel report — Lithuania ECoC 2022 (final selection)
    2022

    According to the panel, the proposed procedures do not fit the capacities of the cultural sector in the city and could therefore have counterproductive outcomes.

  • Galway 2020
    Galway · 2020

    …Actions Create intergenerational ICT learning platforms in Create introductory programmes to the culture of Galway for new migrants using cultural institutions.

  • Hildesheim 2025 — Final selection
    Hildesheim · 2025
  • Selection panel report — Lithuania ECoC 2022 (pre-selection)
    2022

    …if all partner cities have expressed the political support for the ECOC project as the latter has diverse needs and objectives comparing to cultural tourism development, which is politically supported.

  • the_missing_pillar.pdf

    Adopt the language of the SDGs One clear challenge for the arts and cultural sector is the need to integrate and adopt the language of the SDGs. There is a need for major institutions to become better at messaging the impact of their work…

  • Kranj 2025 — Pre-selection
    Kranj · 2025

    Imagine a program serving inspi- ration for spontaneous cultural and social projects launched by citizens, who, under the umbrella of the ECC, will more easily turn their ideas into tangible results that reach audiences.

  • Narva 2024 — Final selection
    Narva · 2024

    We will encourage innovation through collab- oration across sectors and industries: music with technology, art of the word with architecture, design and cleantech, performance and transportation, etc.