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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 Any type
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.

24 documents of type bid book (final selection) for “Environment”

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

Found inside the documents

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.