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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) 12Bid book (final selection) 13Selection panel report 1Ex-post evaluation 7Strategy 1Action plan 1Research 2Other 4
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.

41 documents for “Health”

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

Found inside the documents

  • the_missing_pillar.pdf

…health (Target 3.4) and addiction (Target 3.5). By recognising the role that accidents and pollution can play in deaths, as well as the importance of education and information for both consumers and healthcare professionals, there is an…

  • CultureNext_Culture-as-Care_AdvocacyThemeReport_June2026_FINAL.pdf
    London. Contributed by London and published to everyone.

    …on cultural partic ipation and youth, hosted in Leeuwarden and Friesland (The Netherlands), the 15th Culture Next Conference on culture, health and well being, hosted in Bielsko Biała (Poland), and a thematic process coordinated by Leuven…

  • Three Sisters 2020 — Pre-selection
    Three Sisters · 2020

    Contract for culture-led development, health and wellbeing programme which will set out our ambition to have the most integrated, innovative and radical offer for a non-metropolitan, rural region in Ireland (by 2019) and Europe (by 2021).

  • Galway 2020 — Evaluation Report
    Galway · 2020

    Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021 (Act No. 24 of 2021) continuation of public health act amendment into 2021. 21 Jan – Apr 2021 May 2021 Disapplication of certain restrictions over the Christmas Period (18 December 2020 to 6 January…

  • Tartu 2024
    Tartu · 2024

    …and munici- pality level Better access to culture for disadvan- taged groups People of Tartu/region are aware of and active in their health and lifestyle choices LONG-TERM SOCIAL IMPACTS Enhanced participation in arts for all major social…

  • Bourges 2028 — Final selection
    Bourges · 2028

    THE JOURNEY TOWARDS HEALTH Mental Health and Community The Centre-Val de Loire and Cher regions have a suicide rate higher than the national average.

  • Three Sisters 2020 — Final selection
    Three Sisters · 2020

    …Greenways and Blueways throughout the Three Sisters 59 60 60 RE-IMAGINING OUR REGION RE-IMAGINING OUR REGION s t r e a m s i x Arts, Health & Wellbeing Sláinte 61 In the Three Sisters, we have been a pathfinder region for positioning…

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

    Therefore, we will also focus on im- aginative, artistic and inclusive educational events promoting creativity, analytical skills, and healthy critical thinking. A creative person can be much harder to manipulate.

  • An analysis of the cultural sector in the aftermath of Cork 2005
    Cork · 2005

    Some respondentswere disbanded at the close of the year, the Project Manager for the Culture and Health strand of the argued that their organization’s existing resources could have been put to better use by what was,program assumed a new…

  • Siena 2019 — Final selection
    Siena · 2019

    With Veliko Tarnovo, cooperation focuses on culture, health, and happiness; conservation strategies for tangible and intangible heritage; culture, social innovation, and sustainable urban development, closely related to the Siena2019…

  • Kortrijk 2030 — Pre-selection
    Kortrijk · 2030

    The contemporary (R)evolutions within society, health, industry, power, etc. lead to new barriers for a growing number of people to fully participate in society.

  • Maribor 2012 — Final Report
    Maribor · 2012

    Health problems, old age, not suitable for pensioners. Lack of money. Lack of information, poor promotion, no invitation. No opportunity, no reason to go. 7.1 6.6 6.6 14.4 18.3 3.1 Other obligations. 2.9 Work obligations.

  • Liverpool 2008 — Impact Assessment
    Liverpool · 2008

    Membership included senior officers from the local health trusts, police force, neighbourhood management, housing, as well as faith and voluntary networks and the media.

  • Ravenna 2019 — Final selection
    Ravenna · 2019

    Health and well-being indicators eg increasing life expectancy and decreasing obesity levels. Happiness and well- being surveys. Perception surveys.

  • Srebrenica 2024 — Pre-selection
    Srebrenica · 2024

    Health and Nature Cluster: Research shows that the mineral springs of „Crni Gru- ber“ spa in their composition represent a unique set of minerals in an optimal ratio, which equally impact anemic conditions and after 10 days of drinking…

  • Selection panel report — Belgium ECoC 2030 (pre-selection)
    2030

    However, the panel missed integration of European organisations with a focus on culture, wellbeing, and health. It is also not very clear how the programme will tackle European issues beyond the immediate cross-border context.

  • 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

    In collaboration with the association Vize tance, z. s., we also organised the conference Art in Health, Health in Art and this year, on 11 June 2026, in collaboration with the Jiří Mahen Library, the international conference Culture as a…

  • Herceg Novi 2021 — Pre-selection
    Herceg Novi · 2021

    Also at Igalo is the renowned Institute of Health which is still used, often by Scandinavian visitors but could also be a long term project in terms of a modern facility to provide an outstanding public private model of culture and health…

  • Leuven 2030 — Pre-selection
    Leuven · 2030

    Today, nearly one thousand years after that first hospital, the city is a mainstay of medical and health sciences. With three major health care institutions, not only physical but also mental health care are tremendously impor- tant in and…

  • Leuven 2030
    Leuven · 2030

    …Leuven MindGate, Lubbeek, SOM, Tienen, UCLL, UZ Leuven, Vesalius Museum INT Art & Science Days Leiden (NL), Bielsko-Biała2026 (PL), CultureAndHealth Platform – Culture Action Europe (EU), EFA European Festivals Association (EU) CLTS 1, 2…

  • Valletta 2018 — Final Report
    Valletta · 2018

    …Correlation analysis In 2016, we found that respondents with higher levels of education tended to report higher level of perceived overall health, visited more EU countries, earned higher income levels, met socially more frequently with…

  • Galway 2020
    Galway · 2020

    Support the development of creative hubs and enterprises such as GMIT and Portershed. 2016–2025 Aim 6 Culture Health & Wellbeing Example Actions Support emerging youth and creativity focused initiatives, programmes organizations with new…

  • Hildesheim 2025 — Final selection
    Hildesheim · 2025

    …centre of our societies. budget 1.8 million € (including flagship project) La Bella Vita (flagship project) A Bike Tour on Wellness, Self-Care, Health, Laziness, Spas, Meditation, and the New Human, With Artistic Interventions Around Bad…

  • Samos 2021 — Pre-selection
    Samos · 2021

    Urban planning and regeneration according to new standards stipulated in EU directives, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Habitat Agenda.

  • Bielsko-Biała 2029
    Bielsko-Biała · 2029

    We are all living together longer on this planet, and with that comes a desire to live longer in good health. This ini- tiative explores six interrelated themes – belonging, self-perception, creativity, embodiment, affective response and…

  • Veliko Tarnovo 2019 — Final selection
    Veliko Tarnovo · 2019

    …open space, schools, hospitals, chitalishta, cultural institutions Creativity and Wellbeing Week is an initiative developed by London Arts in Health Forum and the National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbe- ing.

  • Liverpool 2008 — Baseline Report
    Liverpool · 2008

    …Employment levels;  Material Well-being | Benefit dependency, income, Housing type/ownership, Access to credit  Physical Well-being | Health  Safety | Safer communities, Feeling safer  Social Cohesion | Relationships with friends and…

  • Turku 2011
    Turku · 2011

    Turku belongs to the European Healthy Cities Network of the World Health Organisation in which well-being is seen as a central part of the development of cities.

  • Liverpool 2008 — Baseline Report
    Liverpool · 2008

    …Employment levels;  Material Well-being | Benefit dependency, income, Housing type/ownership, Access to credit  Physical Well-being | Health  Safety | Safer communities, Feeling safer  Social Cohesion | Relationships with friends and…

  • Perugia 2019 — Pre-selection
    Perugia · 2019

    On the basis of the region’s experience and organisa- tion in terms of public health, a space dedicated to the promotion of health education, organised by the Centre for Experimental Health Education at the University of Perugia, in…

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

    …Poor accessibility of venues Possible Critical - Conduct accessibility analyses and remedy problems Crisis in data infrastructure, climate, health, mobility, etc.

  • Banja Luka 2024 — Pre-selection
    Banja Luka · 2024

    Mental health is a hot topic for us because of the trau- matic events that took place in the early 1990s, because there is a strong social stigma attached to mental dis- orders, and psychiatric institutions across the country face many…

  • Leeds 2023 — Pre-selection
    Leeds · 2023

    Leeds has a relatively high level of working-age adults not in employment due to mental ill health. We will collaborate with the National Health Service (NHS) on a public engagement programme and an international conference on health and…

  • Nova Gorica 2025
    Nova Gorica · 2025
  • DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL renewing a Union action for the European Capitals of Culture for the years 2034 to 2047 and repealing Decision No 445/2014/EU
    Cluj-Napoca. Contributed by Cluj-Napoca and published to everyone.Cluj-Napoca · 2026

    EN 22 EN (a) an initial interim report by 31 December 2038; (b) a second interim report by 31 December 2043; (c) an ex post report by 31 December 2048. Article 18 Exercise of the delegation 1.

  • Action Plan No. 1: Culture and Creative Industries Strategy 2026–2027
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno · 2026

    …strategic docu- ments of the SWD and HD, such as the Strategy for the Integration of Foreign Nationals in the City of Brno, the City of Brno Health Plan and the Strategic Plan for the Gradual Removal of Barriers.

  • 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…

  • Herceg Novi 2021 — Final selection
    Herceg Novi · 2021

    Also at Igalo is the renowned Institute of Health which is still used, often by Scandinavian visitors but could also be a long term project in terms of a modern facility to provide an outstand- ing public private model of culture and…

  • OK Analyza brnenske kulturni sceny ENG 2025_WEB
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno

    …STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES THREATS genre diversity and a wide range of dance events and activities the positive impact of dance on the health and social cohesion of the city’s inhabitants the dance sector knows how to work with…

  • Grant Programmes in the Field of Culture (2026)
    Brno. Contributed by Brno and published to everyone.Brno · 2026

    …The grant can cover a maximum of: expenditure of up to 70% of the grant provided to cover wages, other personnel costs and social security and health insurance contributions of the beneficiary and the ben- eficiary’s staff; expenditure up…

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    Turku 2011 — Final Report

    Turku · 2011