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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) 19Bid book (final selection) 11Ex-post evaluation 23Strategy 2Action plan 1Research 3Other 6 Any type

19 documents of type bid book (pre-selection) for “Education”

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

Several experts from education in the working groups have already helped to give our bidbook its concrete form, from a specialist in impact measurement to a researcher in decolonisation, a futurologist to an educational policy coordinator.

  • The Hague 2018 — Pre-selection
    The Hague · 2018

    The Hague is building on a tradition of substantial investments in the past and, from 2013, will sys- tematically expand cultural education as an element of formal educational frameworks.

  • Nitra 2026 — Pre-selection
    Nitra · 2026

    …projects and participative productions, for example the project How to understand Theatre (organised since 2008) provides non-formal education for secondary schools and university departments.

  • Lecce 2019 — Pre-selection
    Lecce · 2019

    EDUtopia EDUtopia is necessary as a tool to reinvent education, as political ideologies have inhibited both progress and the ability of the education system to react to the fast paced communication revolution of the 21st century.

  • Trnava 2026 — Pre-selection
    Trnava · 2026

    Hence, we see education as the basis. We will stimulate experimentation and acceptance of failure, we will cultivate respect and basics such as patience, listening and registering skills, learning to say no, and acceptance of different…

  • Hlohovec 2026 — Pre-selection
    Hlohovec · 2026

    Examples of flagship projects Childhood Institute Aim: The aim is to implement art education and art education more effectively in the learning process in the town.

  • Gent 2030 — Pre-selection
    Gent · 2030

    Several experts from education in the working groups have already helped to give our bidbook its concrete form, from a specialist in impact measurement to a researcher in decolonisation, a futurologist to an educational policy coordinator.

  • Ioannina 2021 — Pre-selection
    Ioannina · 2021

    …in Greece and Europe, in order to connect residents with activities of high artistic quality, so as to upgrade their cultural familiarity and education, as a trigger for set off creative cultural and artistic processes.

  • Banská Bystrica 2026 — Pre-selection
    Banská Bystrica · 2026

    SHAPING THE NEW GENERATION THROUGH EDUCATION We want increase the interest in culture through the education of new generations in the field of arts. Public theatre rehearsals and discussions.

  • Ljubljana 2025 — Pre-selection
    Ljubljana · 2025

    For instance, culture and art education helps improve a number of skills and competencies of children. However, according to preschool teachers and educators, the emotional, moral, personal and social development of children is precisely…

  • Utrecht 2018 — Pre-selection
    Utrecht · 2018

    The current population of just over 300,000 includes no fewer than 137,000 children and young people in education. The city’s primary schools have 27,000 pupils, secondary schools have 10,000 students, with a further 28,000 in intermediate…

  • Messolonghi 2021 — Pre-selection
    Messolonghi · 2021

    In addition, collaboration in actions concerning En- vironmental Education, Health Education and Cultural issues, under the initiative of the Centre for the Envi- ronmental Education of Messolonghi, the Messolonghi – Aetoliko Lagoon…

  • Rokiškis 2022 — Pre-selection
    Rokiškis · 2022

    Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences will also organise interdisciplinary art specialists to work in culture, education and social institutions and communities.

  • Kiruna 2029 — Pre-selection
    Kiruna · 2029

    …also stu- dent councils and student unions at the municipal high school and at the Space High School (a pri- vate school specialising in space education) - and those are the two secondary schools we have, one municipal and one private…

  • Gabrovo 2019 — Pre-selection
    Gabrovo · 2019

    We are a city full of potential, developing into a new centre of production, business and solidly, based on the role of education we see as one of the most eminent instruments to create an (cid:25)#!(cid:30)(cid:3)(cid:26)(cid:3)…

  • Žilina 2026 — Pre-selection
    Žilina · 2026

    4.3 Explain your overall strategy for audience development, and in particular the link with education and the participation of schools. [A] AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT According to the EU Study on audience development (2017, A. Bollo, C.

  • Corfu 2021 — Pre-selection
    Corfu · 2021

    …we engage participants in ways that are educational, creative and fun. One of the aims of Corfu2021 is to facilitate learning, par- ticipation and job creation in the shaping of the future for Corfu by its young citizens.

  • Volos 2021 — Pre-selection
    Volos · 2021

    Since all of the above involve planning and strat- egy, education has an important role to play, through the ECoC. Ongoing actions through the UTH, involving students and teachers, who will re- late to projects of architecture, but also…

  • Leuven 2030 — Pre-selection
    Leuven · 2030

    As part of this network, in April 2024 LOV2030 set up the Culture x Education Lab, in which 50 educational institutions and cultural organizations participate.