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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) 9Bid book (final selection) 9Selection panel report 1Monitoring panel report 3Ex-post evaluation 21Strategy 3Action plan 1Research

7 documents of type strategy or research for “Funding”

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

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

    …cooperation decentralisation of CCIs and thus stronger com munity building expats, diversity of cultures active associations multi-source funding, fundraising overall underfunding of CCIs limited funding from the Ministry of Culture of the…

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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.
  • Strategy in Practice in Brno: Grants Powering Cultural and Creative Fields

    Brno

    Plan

    Strategy in Practice in Brno: Grants Powering Cultural and Creative Fields
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno

    When it comes to supporting culture and the creative fields, funding is one of the hottest topics around. The City of Brno supports artists, creative professionals and cultural organisations it doesn’t directly run – chiefly through its…

  • Strategy in Practice in Brno: Culture Accessible to All

    Brno

    Plan

    Strategy in Practice in Brno: Culture Accessible to All
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno

    The same effort is continued through our collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology. As part of the course Architecture Without Barriers , students have been mapping selected Brno municipal cultural…

  • Commission Staff Working Document — interim evaluation of the ECoC action, SWD(2025) 284
    2025

    This includes on average about 30% from national funding, 25% from local funding and 17% from regional funding. Private funding accounts for about 11% of the total budget across the 2013-2022 timeframe.

  • European Capitals of Culture: success strategies and long-term effects (Garcia and Cox, European Parliament, 2013)
    2013

    For example, Copenhagen 1996 saw funding after the year maintained by the majority of local authorities, with a small number reducing funding, but a larger number increasing it.

  • Also matching the title, city or themes

    Palmer/Rae Associates — European Cities and Capitals of Culture 1995–2004, Part II (city reports)

    Cross-city (Palmer Report Pt II) · 2004

    European Cities of Culture. Oct 1994

    Cross-city (Network of Cultural Cities of Europe) · 1994