The ECoC evidence base

The Archive

Forty years of European Capitals of Culture in their own words: what cities promised, what they did, and what the evaluations found.

documents: 472
cities: 190
evaluations: 53
bid books: 182; 1985–2031

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.

11 documents of type bid book (pre-selection) 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

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.