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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.

documents
472

documents

cities
190

cities

evaluations
53

evaluations

bid books
182

bid books

1985–2031

title years covered

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) 11Bid book (final selection) 25Monitoring panel report 1Ex-post evaluation 11Other 1
What the document types mean
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.

49 documents for “Digital”

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Ask Encore: “Digital”An answer from across the Archive, every claim cited to its document.

Found inside the documents

  • Nitra 2026 — Pre-selection
Nitra · 2026
  • the_missing_pillar.pdf

    Digital technologies provide new ways for creativity and innovation to be unlocked. The creative economy is one of the most rapidly growing sectors worldwide, creating opportunities for job creation and international markets.

  • Plovdiv 2019
    Plovdiv · 2019

    Digital Communication Strategy “The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow”, says Bill Gates. Considering that Plovdiv is one of the best connected cities in Europe with cheap, fast and reliable access to…

  • Galway 2020
    Galway · 2020

    …for the European Capital of Culture Year? 6.27.1 EXPERIENCE ANYTHING ANYWHERE In a little over 12 months Galway has become the largest ever ‘Digital Capital of Culture’ building an online community of over 70,000 people and reaching…

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

    DIGITAL STRATEGY: SHARING IS CARING The digital layer is integrated into each and every Budweis 2028 aspect - with no exception of marketing. Further- more, in cultural marketing, the product often becomes the message of marketing…

  • Rijeka 2020
    Rijeka · 2020

    Digital Possibly the most intense part of our commu- nications work will be in the self-produced digital contents. Our digital newsroom will be fully servicing the above mentioned media relations ( when/where needed ) and will be covering…

  • Kalamata 2021 — Final selection
    Kalamata · 2021

    digitAl stRAtegy In our modern era, image and sound can travel faster than any transport vehicle! Digital solutions and technology are the tools that we need in order to make our programme more accessible to broader audiences and reach as…

  • Dublin 2020 — Pre-selection
    Dublin · 2020

    Digital Dublin will foster and develop an Interna- tional and European Innovation system through city to city collaboration, working with Government, Business, Higher Education and Citizens.

  • Veliko Tarnovo 2019 — Final selection
    Veliko Tarnovo · 2019

    A review of the relationship between art, digital media and technologies will answer the ques- tion in a 2019 conference devoted to this issue. Participants will debate and explore the subject of digital media and its applications in the…

  • Donostia-San Sebastián 2016
    Donostia-San Sebastián · 2016
  • Ljubljana 2025 — Final selection
    Ljubljana · 2025

    MADE IN DIGITAL Although Slovenian new media and intermedia artists are globally renowned (Marko Peljhan, Dragan Živadinov, Maja Smrekar), we have heretofore lacked a serious overview of their work that would shine a light on their…

  • Venezia & Nordest 2019 — Pre-selection
    Venezia & Nordest · 2019

    The Digital Capital. The cultural playbill will be staged via the Digital ECoC (see Question IV.3), which will bring full broadband and ultra-broadband coverage to Venice and the Northeast, supplement the content of the ECoC Bid (through…

  • Nova Gorica 2025
    Nova Gorica · 2025
  • Mons 2015
    Mons · 2015

    Tournée vers les TIC (Technologies de l’Information et de la Com- munication) et les médias numériques, la Digital Innovation Valley regroupe des entreprises de la région de Mons et des environs (Tour- nai, le Brabant wallon, Charleroi).

  • Timișoara 2021
    Timișoara · 2021

    Digital strategy The digital existence of the TM2021 Cultural Programme leads the marketing and communication strategy because the digital component is the key mechanism to implementing the engagement, participation and outreach of TM2021…

  • Herceg Novi 2021 — Pre-selection
    Herceg Novi · 2021

    5) Digital experience. This is an area where we recognise a key need and is a current gap in the programme. Though we have a solution which will make a significant difference to our knowledge and effectiveness in this area.

  • Liepāja 2027 — Final selection
    Liepāja · 2027

    And leaflets, flyers will be both physical and available in digital versions, on platforms, on social networks. In communication, digital is the new natural.

  • Zagreb 2020 — Pre-selection
    Zagreb · 2020

    …CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TRADITIONAL ART FORMS WITH NEW, INNOVATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS? traditional/contemporary and analogue/digital are two main reconciliation processes we will employ in our approach to innovative…

  • Hildesheim 2025 — Final selection
    Hildesheim · 2025

    DIGITAL MEDIA The digital media content will provide exciting insight into the programme, practices and mindset of Hildesheim 2025, inspired by the notion of care.

  • Broumov 2028 — Final selection
    Broumov · 2028

    We reach these Europeans in person, through market- ing activities and digital platforms. By active listening and choosing topics closest to the specific group, we create space for self-identification with the Creative Pilgrimage and…

  • Molenbeek 2030 — Final selection
    Molenbeek · 2030

    The four seasons are complemented by a season of Digital Sadaka which runs through the whole year, and by Creative Sadaka in action in the other Brussels municipalities and in the Flemish and Walloon partner cities Mechelen and Charleroi.

  • Trnava 2026 — Pre-selection
    Trnava · 2026

    This awareness leads to a new attitude towards the (digital) overflow that is overwhelming for so many of us. Rather than being washed away by it, people who have experienced our ECoC programme will feel firmly rooted, trusting themselves…

  • Rhodes 2021 — Final selection
    Rhodes · 2021

    Digit:Isle will host exhibitions of local and international emerging digital artists, workshops on technology and arts, master classes, contemporary screenings, new media performances, smaller scale music concerts and other immersive…

  • Rouen 2028 — Final selection
    Rouen · 2028

    The 11TH Port of Call is entirely digital, linking Rouen and the Seine Normande to all those who will not be travel- ling but who will be experiencing part of RSN28 online.

  • Split 2020 — Pre-selection
    Split · 2020

    Our digital communication strategy transcends time and place. It offers us a broad possibility to approach many targets with a small budget, investing, however, a lot of work, creativity, passion, and out of the box thinking.

  • Nürnberg 2025 — Final selection
    Nürnberg · 2025

    Podcasts about Nürnberg2025’s arts and cultural programme Playground TV: Nürnberg2025’s digital television channel Media Library: providing access to all formats, including previously broadcast programmes Our Media House Partners include…

  • Banja Luka 2024 — Final selection
    Banja Luka · 2024

    Digital Partisans will invite its audience to actively par-ticipate in the creation process and to contribute to the future life of the exhibition.

  • Dubrovnik 2020 — Final selection
    Dubrovnik · 2020

    The team fully acknowledges the complexity of the digital field and will further develop its dig- ital strategy with already committed partners. This will be achieved in close cooperation with worldwide leaders in innovative hardware as…

  • Évora 2027 — Final selection
    Évora · 2027

    PLACES(channels) We are living through an unprecedented digital transfor- mation. The ways in which information is created and con- sumed are constantly evolving.

  • Siena 2019 — Pre-selection
    Siena · 2019

    Date: 2015-2019 (training and archive de- velopment); 2019-onwards: Dissemination Place: Digital web, private homes, public spaces, Contradas. Project partners: metaLAB Harvard Uni- versity; Ahref Foundation, Trento; Magis- trato delle…

  • Tampere 2026 — Final selection
    Tampere · 2026

    First, we have in- itiatives making our saunas more accessible for inter- national visitors: DIGITAL PLATFORMS: we provide a mobile app point- ing out saunas in many sizes, forms and tastes, and answering Frequently Asked Questions in…

  • Bourges 2028 — Pre-selection
    Bourges · 2028

    …Chapelle Euroverse and Miniverse exhibition This project reconstructs Bourges’ Sainte Chapelle that was destroyed in 1775 as an immersive digital space – an exceptional monument completed in 1397, modelled on the Sainte Chapelle of Paris.

  • Chemnitz 2025
    Chemnitz · 2025

    We also learned that, in the digital sphere, we have to do more than to just contact people — to make the step to real-life participation, active involvement and even (co-)ownership of the projects are required.

  • Tartu 2024 — 1st monitoring report
    Tartu · 2024

    …recommendations concerning the need for a more provocative and experimental programme, the Panel wanted to know what would change in the digital strategy and in the aims of the programme after COVID-19.

  • Zadar 2020 — Pre-selection
    Zadar · 2020

    Urban Reloading tackles accessibility and participa- tion challenges, firstly by giving the special atten- tion to access to culture via digital means.

  • Esch-sur-Alzette 2022
    Esch-sur-Alzette · 2022

    Digitalisation This is not just the pivotal point and fulcrum of the programme; it is a criterion that will be incorporated into the planning of the pro- gramme right from the very start, now and of course in the future.

  • Lecce 2019 — Final selection
    Lecce · 2019
  • Zittau 2025 — Pre-selection
    Zittau · 2025

    …is a project by the inhabitants of this region, so it is they who should be the protagonists of our external and internal communication. #digital&original: In future we will increasingly be using digital met- hods of communication.

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    Galway · 2020

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

    Matera & Plovdiv · 2019

    Valletta 2018 — Final Report

    Valletta · 2018

    Aarhus 2017

    Aarhus · 2017

    EC Ex-Post Evaluation — 2015 (Mons & Plzeň)

    Mons & Plzeň · 2015

    EC Ex-Post Evaluation — Guimarães, Maribor

    Guimarães & Maribor · 2012

    Maribor 2012 — Final Report

    Maribor · 2012

    Liverpool 2008 — Impact Assessment

    Liverpool · 2008