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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) 15Bid book (final selection) 19Ex-post evaluation 4Research 3Other 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.

43 documents for “Social inclusion”

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

Found inside the documents

  • Siracusa & South-East 2019 — Pre-selection
Siracusa & South-East · 2019

II.2) which include the concepts of Frontier as Urban Borders, and Social Inclusion - the Multicultural City and again as Borders of Europe - Marginality and Voices from the Borders, will start in cities with are already in our network.

  • the_missing_pillar.pdf

    Active participation in culture is an essential aspect of social inclusion and can boost employment and economic growth by increasing civic participation, enhancing minority voices, and growing mutual recognition and cooperation between…

  • Skopje 2028 — Final selection
    Skopje · 2028

    The City of Skopje maintains a proactive social welfare policy that includes systematic care for various marginal- ised and vulnerable groups: from persons with challenges and the homeless to people with mental health problems and elderly…

  • Three Sisters 2020 — Final selection
    Three Sisters · 2020

    Three Sisters will work with events professionals, socially engaged artists, local authority events and community departments in the region, delivery teams from ECoCs and WIT technology department to develop an open source event making…

  • Brno 2028
    Brno · 2028

    WE DON’T LOOK AWAY Social exclusion refers to perceived, combined inequalities in income, employment opportunities, education, and housing. In Europe, the relationship between culture and social exclusion has been promoted in recent years…

  • Mantova 2019 — Pre-selection
    Mantova · 2019

    THE GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION THE UNIQUE CITY Mantova2019 uses the Beautiful as a tool for building a venue for ‘good living’ through art and culture but also thanks to respect for the rights, dignity and equality of each…

  • Molenbeek 2030 — Final selection
    Molenbeek · 2030

    CHAPTER 4: OUTREACH66 social inclusion. The event will grow into a larger Creole conference with ULB and VUB. Volunteers Volunteers, the heartbeat of MB2030, include all target groups (people with disabilities, seniors, young people…

  • Bielsko-Biała 2029
    Bielsko-Biała · 2029

    The New European Bauhaus values of sustainability, aesthet- ics and inclusion will be critical in all processes and outcomes. The urban refuges will seamlessly integrate urban design with natural elements and digital technology.

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

    We are inspired by the European Social Inclusion Lab project and SHIFT - Shared Initiatives For Training. Our goal is to empower and promote the social, economic, and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation…

  • Esch-sur-Alzette 2022
    Esch-sur-Alzette · 2022

    Social inclusion > Public space > New sense of identity > Creative industries and capacity building at our society from the margins. And we will do this using the means of participation through cul- ture.

  • Namur 2030 — Final selection
    Namur · 2030

    To promote social inclusion, the city takes inspiration from best practices and European values in a continuous search for solutions to offer people deprived of access to culture, whether due to their geographical, social or economic…

  • Dublin 2020 — Pre-selection
    Dublin · 2020

    Widening those with the skills and expertise to utilise and develop new and existing media platforms for the common good Inclusion of Dublin in activities relating to European Heritage Day.

  • Galway 2020 — Evaluation Report
    Galway · 2020

    Creating Inclusion Produced with Galway City Council and Galway County Council Galway City, October 2018 Galway 2020 marked Social Inclusion Week 2018 by co-hosting the Creating Inclusion event with local authorities and a number of…

  • Varna 2019 — Pre-selection
    Varna · 2019

    …objective of our cultural programme concerning our citizens is to create an environment in which the broadest circle of genders, generations, social groups, ethnic groups and nationalities will be able to express themselves through the…

  • Kuressaare 2024 — Pre-selection
    Kuressaare · 2024

    Improving the quality of life of people who are excluded and socially vulnera- ble, avoiding their labelling and isolation, and promoting their inclusion in the society’s activities through improvement of the surrounding environment and…

  • Ptuj 2025 — Final selection
    Ptuj · 2025

    There have been some positive developments in Slovenia in the area of social inclusion in re- cent years, but much work remains to be done, including in the area of culture.

  • 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

    It is a cost- effective action leveraging public and private funding, and acting as a catalyst for social and economic development, especially when embedded in long-term local and regional strategies.

  • Tampere 2026 — Final selection
    Tampere · 2026

    In Open Minds we develop together with partners from Sweden, Portugal, Croatia and Albania a new educational path focusing on social inclusion, creativity, diversity and democratic think- ing.

  • Wrocław 2016 — Archipelagos of Culture
    Wrocław · 2016

    …culture offered in public spaces is an opportunity and occasion contributing to the realisation of certain practices that serve primarily social inclusion.

  • Ptuj 2025 — Pre-selection
    Ptuj · 2025

    There have been some positive developments in Slovenia in the area of social inclusion in re- cent years, but much work remains to be done, including in the area of culture.

  • Ljubljana 2025 — Pre-selection
    Ljubljana · 2025

    This segment of diverse projects of citizen engagement and inclusion in the decision-making processes pertaining to the development of the local environment, both in terms of programmes and spatial planning, will not shirk from COLLISIONS…

  • Programme Book of the Cultural Programme (2024, Bilingual) (Bad Ischl 2024)
    Bad Ischl · 2024

    EN LAKE 2.0 is a choreographic project which crea- tes an intercultural dialogue between art and inclusion. Ar- tists and laypeople from three countries (Austria, France, Greece) come together with their respective experiences with…

  • Córdoba 2016 — Final selection
    Córdoba · 2016

    The geographical target will be the citizens, in the wid- est and most inclusive sense of the term, paying special attention to social minorities.

  • Veliko Tarnovo 2019 — Pre-selection
    Veliko Tarnovo · 2019

    A meeting is scheduled to all of them here in 2019.  A new opportunity of social inclusion through art. Because in Veliko Turnovo tourism, services, and culture account for the largest share in the revenue in recent years, nearly 60%.

  • Nitra 2026 — Pre-selection
    Nitra · 2026

    …by the city, cultural centre Hidepark and Slovak University of Agriculture (in cooperation with local institutions, schools, SMEs, NGOs, and social and health services).

  • Évora 2027 — Pre-selection
    Évora · 2027

    Évora 2027 therefore believes in promoting inclusion and respect for diversity through art, and this is how we will set about ensuring everyone can participate.

  • Rokiškis 2022 — Pre-selection
    Rokiškis · 2022

    …the disabled, the elderly, different social and cultural exclusion groups: different races, religions, and cultural traditions, different sexual identity and orientation, other groups.

  • Pula 2020 — Final selection
    Pula · 2020

    From visibility to better exposure, we foster social and economical inclusion of minorities and make concrete, long-term cultural changes. In the Open Fortress project and LaCom we show the richness of minority cultures precisely through…

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

    …ethics community format Massive march timeline June 2016 location The entire territory specific net Works European Trans-regional Network for Social Inclusion / Korrika / Herri Urrats / AEK / Club Fortuna / Gentle Actions (Noruega) buDget…

  • Urban anxieties and creative tensions in the European Capital of Culture 2005 (Cork)
    Cork · 2005

    …reposition cities in a major way, will not dramatically alter the demographic profile of cultural audi- ences and will not create a legacy of social inclusion.

  • Bad Ischl / Salzkammergut 2024
    Bad Ischl / Salzkammergut · 2024

    …and streamed live on the radio. the potentials of We discussed counter culture, of Hallstatt as tourism QUESTION 15 Audience Development and socially inclusive programming OUR VISION for the cultural family – our Salty Family – is…

  • Lublin 2029
    Lublin · 2029
  • Chemnitz 2025
    Chemnitz · 2025

    …age groups or financially marginalised people from participating in our culture of making, we will ask different partners, such as the inclusion officer in city administration, and affected citizens for recommendations.

  • Klaipėda 2022 — Final selection
    Klaipėda · 2022

    Participation in cultural activities maintains those people’s human dignity and prevents social exclusion. We want the inclusion and interac- tion of all the segments of the community to ensure the positive snowball effect in culture…

  • Osijek 2020 — Final selection
    Osijek · 2020

    …the local government, international partners and the private sector, with the strength- ening of the partnership network, will allow for the inclusion of a greater number of participants, which will in turn directly contribute to the…

  • Broumov 2028 — Pre-selection
    Broumov · 2028

    Socially excluded groups In Broumovsko, we are facing many social issues (e. g. uproot- ing, unemployment, low level of education), which are the main barrier preventing people from participation in public and cultural life, leading to…

  • Brugge 2030 — Pre-selection
    Brugge · 2030

    People with disabilities “The art world is very adept at talking about inclusion, but as yet, it doesn’t always put it into practice. In the care sector, there is less theoretical knowledge, but inclusion is the norm.

  • Nürnberg 2025 — Pre-selection
    Nürnberg · 2025

    This project deals with topics that affect every part of the city, irrespective of its social or economic structure, and we are confident it will bring us new insights and knowledge.

  • Bourges 2028 — Final selection
    Bourges · 2028

    The City of Bourges has made an office available at the Val d’Auron social centre. To go further, the Municipal Council of the City of Bourges voted unanimously on June 22, 2023, a motion declaring Bourges an LGBTQIA+ freedom zone…

  • Osijek 2020 — Pre-selection
    Osijek · 2020

    Developing and strengthening partnership with the local government, international partners and the private sector will allow inclusion of a greater number of participants, which will in turn directly contribute to the diversification of…

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