2nd: Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 2018
The Conference
On May 4 and May 5 Liberty Technology Park in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca hosted Culture Next, the European Capital of Culture Candidates Cities Network.
The special guest of the conference was Pier Luigi Sacco, Professor of Cultural Economics at IULM University in Milan, Senior Researcher and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University, and Special Adviser to the European Commissioner for Culture and Education. Professor Sacco delivered a key note speech on: Making an Impact through Culture – from Economic to Social Value Creation.
15 cultural managers from Aveiro (PT), Cluj-Napoca (RO), Debrecen (HU), Eleusis 2021 (GR), Klaipeda (LT), Leeds (UK) and Plunge (LT) and 100 cultural experts and business people from Cluj-Napoca took part in the meeting.
Culture Next
Culture Next is an informal, friendly and relaxed network dedicated to mutual support and collaboration between European cities which are current or former candidates for the European Capital of Culture title, awarded or not.
Seven years after its founding în Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Culture Next involves around 40 cities on the continent. În 2021 the network received a grant from the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission to scale-up Culture Next and improve its capacity to work with more European cities.
Interested to become a member?
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Our members are cities or organizations representing various cities: former and future title holders, cities which continued their cultural programmes even without being selected aș ECoCs and cities which intend to do this.
Many of our members represent cities which are current candidates, interested în developing European connection and sustainable cultural programmes which can be implemented independently of the jury decision.
Registrations Closed
Meeting Agenda
4TH – 5TH OF MAY, 2018 | CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
CONFERENCE VENUE
Liberty Technology Park – Gării Street 21, Cluj-Napoca
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
– To become more familiar with each other and with each other’s activities
– To define priority topics for the network for the next 3 years
– To identify and define first common projects (in clusters of interests)
– To design the networked capacity building programme
FACILITATOR
András Farkas, Co-Founder of PONT Group, Executive Director of the Network of European Youth Capitals
