The ECoC evidence base
Forty years of European Capitals of Culture in their own words: what cities promised, what they did, and what the evaluations found.
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5 documents of type research for “Legacy”
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(Zeit-)Geschichte Entwicklung partizipativer Reflexionsformate und Förderung einer gelebten Erinnerungskultur durch Kunst- und Kulturprojekte. Dynamischer Umgang mit Tradition Auseinandersetzung mit volkskulturellen Traditionen in…

Since the title year, the Foundation “Novi Sad — European Capital of Culture” has transitioned from programme delivery to legacy stewardship. It operates with an annual budget of approximately €2.4 million, focused on legacy programming…

LEGACY Planning legacy at an early stage Sustainability needs to be considered at an early stage and ‘built-in’ from the outset. Whilst the year before the title-year and the title-year itself are inevitably very busy, legacy planning…

Problem n° 3: weak legacy planning It clearly emerged from the 25 year anniversary conference which focused on the legacy of ECoC that legacy is far from automatic simply because a city holds the title.

There are good examples of bidding legacy within the UK, where the 2008 competition process was followed by the creation of a UK ‘Cultural Cities Network’ in 2003, involving most of the other candidate cities, and this network laid the…