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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) 10Bid book (final selection) 24Ex-post evaluation 4Strategy 2
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.

40 documents for “Environment”

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

Found inside the documents

  • Kranj 2025 — Pre-selection
Kranj · 2025

…changes is a necessary part of our daily routine, given that not only are social fabrics being changed at a lighting pace, but also natural environments around them.

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

    …(CZ) ► Milan Binder (CZ) PROGRAMME PROJECT DESCRIPTION CURATOR NAMELEADING PARTNER 42 CREATORS The only possible future is the better one! #ENVIRONMENT ARS BIOLOGICA 2024 – 2029 University of South Bohemia, Biology Centre of the CAS, Ars…

  • Cultural Development Plan „Cultural Vision 2030“ (English) (Bad Ischl 2024)
    Bad Ischl · 2024

    …experts warn of impending climate collapse. 55 Thirst for retreat © Rocky Cody So how can the Salzkammergut be encouraged to facilitate a more environmentally friendly lifestyle?

  • Banja Luka 2024 — Final selection
    Banja Luka · 2024

    Anoth- er legacy is the created and accumulated capacity to creatively engage different environment-related issues - either currently present, or those looming in the future.

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

    Vertical Gardens and Share the Light focus mainly on building the spacial environment, whereas the "Neighbourhood Cutlural Councils" focus on building the local communities capacities in cultural management, audience development, curating…

  • Liverpool 2008 — Baseline Report
    Liverpool · 2008

    The Use of the Heritage Environment This sub-theme will explore the way in which Liverpool‟s World Heritage Site and other heritage buildings are incorporated within the cultural city.

  • Plovdiv 2019
    Plovdiv · 2019

    The Environment Action Programme for the EU, newly proposed by the DG Environment called “Living well, within the limits of our planet” has its priorities in the reduction of threats to human health and wellbeing linked to pollution…

  • Liverpool 2008 — Baseline Report
    Liverpool · 2008

    The Use of the Heritage Environment This sub-theme will explore the way in which Liverpool‟s World Heritage Site and other heritage buildings are incorporated within the cultural city.

  • Žilina 2026 — Pre-selection
    Žilina · 2026
  • Kuressaare 2024 — Pre-selection
    Kuressaare · 2024

    The living environment that has been pre- served over centuries, unique traditions, and our hard-working and humorous people have been especially acknowledged because we have managed to live in harmony with the nature.

  • Piran 2025 — Final selection
    Piran · 2025

    RE:CREATE to The environmental problems involves seeing audiences as stakeholders, co-designers, and fellow designers of spaces and processes. Where audiences want to co-create, co- design, co-generate we will have an offer ready.

  • Paphos 2017
    Paphos · 2017

    Tourism and Environment Tourism in Pafos is a mixed blessing. It is economically vital but a strain on some other areas. The three main influences of tourism are on the environment, on the segregation of the city and on the social…

  • Volos 2021 — Pre-selection
    Volos · 2021

    ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN LANDSCAPE Development of EU’s green directive on the protection of nature, on ensuring health and quality of life, environmental education and eco- tourism. Indicative actions.

  • Mons 2015
    Mons · 2015

    Ainsi, nous attendons des traiteurs de nous faire des propositions de menus équilibrés, respectant les règles de base d’une alimentation saine (principe des cinq fruits et légumes par jour, etc.), réalisés à base de produits Bio et…

  • Tampere 2026 — Final selection
    Tampere · 2026

    Creative workshops on upcycling plastic objects, the recycling event Plastic Market and the environmental friendly waste cleaning games with a Russian partner work all spark environmental action – amounting to three strands of the project…

  • Rouen 2028 — Final selection
    Rouen · 2028

    …from non- Western culture on connecting to the earth and the soil. — PARTNERS: The FRENE (French network for education in nature and the environment), the GRAINE (regional network of actors in Education for the Environment and Sustainable…

  • Liepāja 2027 — Final selection
    Liepāja · 2027

    The development of the coastal ecosystem management model is an initiative of the Liepāja Municipality Environment Department, based on the assessment of ecosystem services, highlighting the benefits and trade-offs between different land…

  • Oulu 2026
    Oulu · 2026

    This shift affects every aspect of our cul- tural, political, environmental and technological landscape. In 2026 we propose to cooperate with artists who work within a similarly shifting paradigm, where technological innovation and…

  • Ioannina 2021 — Pre-selection
    Ioannina · 2021

    Other aspects of culture: natural environment and sports In a region with sizeable areas of wilderness and areas of particular natural beauty, where people lived and worked in close alignment with nature, the cultural connection between…

  • Nova Gorica 2025
    Nova Gorica · 2025

    With the accessibility of contemporary environmental sens- ing and recording instruments, be it on biological, chemical, physical or visual levels, the human ability to understand the components of what we deem “nature” has expanded…

  • Bodø 2024
    Bodø · 2024

    Our vision is to become the most environmentally sustainable ECoC ever. There will be no plastic products for single use and recycling facilities will of course be provided for all events.

  • Évora 2027 — Final selection
    Évora · 2027

    …in the Alentejo will create the conditions for a series of meetings of European artists and experts working in the field of climate and the environment. It is a rare example of trees conquering space.

  • Riga 2014
    Riga · 2014

    CoopERATIon pARTnERS: Riga’s partner towns. 70 71 environment unites The surrounding environment is one of the components forming a person’s personality.

  • Hlohovec 2026 — Pre-selection
    Hlohovec · 2026

    Four areas of interest, four areas of response to 4Ds 1/Safe Environment vs. Destabilization Our dreamer faces the process of destabilization, uncertainty, and unveiling of our known world by defining and creating a safe environment.

  • Lecce 2019 — Final selection
    Lecce · 2019

    …Ykon, Helsinki Underwater and Sky Perception- An open, live and virtual natural museum Within the cultural heritage of the geographical/environmental Salento, there is a rich history of life forged by the environment.

  • Évora 2027 — Pre-selection
    Évora · 2027

    …idyllic landscape, leading to a lack of water and a loss of biodiversity – all issues that will merit the attention of artists known for their environmental activism and critical stance on the exploitation of the land.

  • Matera 2019
    Matera · 2019

    We share a common environment. It must, however, go hand-in-hand with a deep-rooted sensitivity to the surrounding environment. For all the differences of language, song, climate and tradition, Europe- ans everywhere face the same…

  • Perugia 2019 — Pre-selection
    Perugia · 2019

    …creation and policies - Employment relationships - Workplace conditions and social protection - Health and safety precautions in the workplace environment - Human development, training in the workplace and skills development - Fundamental…

  • Timișoara 2023 — Annual report 2023 (Centre for Projects)
    Timișoara · 2023

    From the local budget of the city, we fund projects in culture, education, youth, civic involvement, sports, and the environment, and we manage spaces of the Municipality of Timișoara, offering them to the local community.

  • Donostia-San Sebastián 2016
    Donostia-San Sebastián · 2016

    …ultimately aim at generating less CO2, compensating for generated CO2 and launching a coherent message of commitment and coexistence with the environment.

  • Bourges 2028 — Final selection
    Bourges · 2028

    …together the ambassadors of indigenous peoples from the fi ve continents, celebrities from the world of current musics and specialists in environmental causes.

  • Hildesheim 2025 — Pre-selection
    Hildesheim · 2025

    How can works of art add to the solution of funda- mental environmental questions? With Hi2025, we aim at contributing to a new responsibility for preserving nature and environment.

  • Leuven 2030
    Leuven · 2030

    A live arts programme with unplugged outdoor performances shaped entirely by their environments Imagine a ballet among the trees, an opera echoing across the fields, or a symphonic orchestra gently swaying to the rhythm of the wind above a…

  • Osijek 2020 — Final selection
    Osijek · 2020

    All the events planned for 2020 and for preparatory years are planned with the awareness of their impact on the environment through CO₂ emissions.

  • Sofia 2019 — Final selection
    Sofia · 2019

    …His- tory Museum, 10 venues throughout Kyustendil Indicative budget: € 1,100,000 Panagiya fest, Kyustendil 2012 SHARING GREEN Sofia’s environmental record has often been less than exemplary and the city still faces numerous environmental…

  • Varna 2019 — Pre-selection
    Varna · 2019

    …main entrance “Urban Texture: Rings and Paths” Project for Integrated City Transport and Sustainable Mobility Confirmed Projects Total Urban Environment – Zone of social impact (Mladost, Vladislav Varnenchik Neighbourhoods) Urban…

  • Narva 2024 — Final selection
    Narva · 2024

    …and international festivals such as De- sign Manchester, we will learn to have fun with our built environment by in- viting our community as well as artists and spatial practitioners from around the world to “Put some colour on!” Narva.

  • Culture and Creative Industries Strategy 2026–2035
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno · 2026

    …priorities of this strategy is sustainability in CCIs, as it is key to maintaining their long-term benefits to the economy, society and the environment.

  • Hildesheim 2025 — Final selection
    Hildesheim · 2025

    The participatory concert installation will deal with pausing and reversion, and plans on developing alternative attitudes towards our environment. By reducing in an attractive way, we will ex- plore a different, more meaningful setting.

  • Also matching the title, city or themes

    Galway 2020 — Evaluation Report

    Galway · 2020