The 2022 Cyprus Culture Summit focused on Euro-Mediterranean collaborations in European education and culture. It discussed complex existing realities in the region related to geopolitics, identity, languages, globalization, and migration. Four priorities were identified: supporting artists and culture professionals, promoting culture for the public and planet, and fostering co-creative partnerships between different groups. EU funding programs like Creative Europe were highlighted as opportunities to collaborate across borders in areas like cultural heritage, human rights, and sustainable development through music and other artistic projects. Successful partnerships require meeting requirements, producing high-quality work, capacity building, outreach, and leveraging other funding sources.

1. 2022 Cyprus Culture Summit
Olga SISMANIDI, 09.12.2022
Euro – Mediterranean collaborations
European Education and Culture
Executive Agency
Photo: courtesy NASA, Wikimedia Commons

2. Global state of affairs
COVID-19
Globalisation
Emerging
Technologies
New consumer choices
and tendencies
Fit for purpose
Values
Euro – Mediterranean
Complex existing realities
 Geopolitical - Geosocial elements
 Identity and self-representation
 Mix of cultures and languages
 Globalisation
 North–South
 Flow of migrants
 Potential cultural resistance
Possible scenarios
 Geopolitical
 E.g. employment pressure,
increased Asian investment
 EU full integration

4. Four Priorities
(a) Artists and cultural
professionals
(b) Culture for the people
(c) Culture for the planet
(d) Culture for co-creative
partnerships
Three Actions for co-creative
partnerships
 Governance
 Cultural heritage / UA
 Human Rights and Democracy
Work Plan for Culture 2023 - 2026

5. EU Funding programmes
• Creative Europe: cultural - linguistic diversity and heritage,
competitiveness and economic potential of CCS
• Horizon Europe: democracy, cultural heritage, social and economic
transformations
• EIT – Culture and Creativity: education, business, innovation,
mainstream of the impacts and data
• Erasmus Plus: education, skills, youth, entrepreneurship
Collaboration, co-creation, co-production,
circulation, demonstration

6. “There is geometry
in the humming of
the strings, there is
music in the spacing
of the spheres”
Pythagoras
Courtecy: DALL-E OpenAI

7. Music cooperation projects*
A European
odyssey for young
artists
*examples

8. European Music
Networks
European Media Art Platform

9. European Networks’ synergies (1)
YOUROPE e.V. - European Festivals
Association
#ImpossibleWithoutYouth campaign
2022 European Year of Youth - Voice
Platform

10. European Networks’ synergies (2)
IMZ Network – Fedora Platform
Performing Arts
Documentary
Digital Creation
This is not a Kanga
Wonder Maria / Bruno
Cabral
Alternates (Bergantian)
CinemaLeap Inc. / Lynn
Song
IMZ Network– Pixii Festival

11. Culture and Creativity – Music – SDGs
 Education on SDGs for positive evolution of the music sector
 Joint initiatives, partnerships and collaborations in SDGs areas
 Awareness raising and engagement :use music, other artistic
expressions and citizen participation
 Advocacy and specific policy development for the Mediterranean
music
 Professional opportunities for artists and music industry
professionals

12. Pathways to successful projects
12
Success factors
Exceeding requirements, timely implementation, budget
execution and acceptance
Results and impacts
Creation and distribution of high quality CCS works
Bolstering capacity building, jobs and creativity-based growth
Raising public awareness on CCS
Synergies and Scalability
Other EU – national funding / public -private sector investment
Tackling EU priorities and global challenges via creativity and
innovation

13. What Euro – Mediterranean collaborations?
Courtecy: DALL-E OpenAI

14. Keep in touch
ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/node_en
www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en
@europe_creative
@MEDIAprogEU
@CreativeEuropeEU
@creative.eu