Anita Pollack
European Consultant
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E-mail: Anita_Pollack@btopenworld.com
EU REPORT for EAC
NOVEMBER 2013
Lithuania Presidency: www.eu2013.lt/
Cities of Culture: Marseille, France and Kosice, Slovakia
Croatia joined EU on 1 July
FUNDING
FUTURE FINANCING 2014-20
Agreement has finally been agreed this month for the EU funding for the next seven
years and the various funding stream regulations are also making their way quickly
through the system.
Here is the map for eligible regions for Cohesion Policy funding worth €325 billion
over the seven year period:
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/future/eligibility/index_en.cfm
The Regulations for all the structural funding streams should be published by the end
of the year in the Official Journal.
CREATIVE EUROPE
This programme was approved by the European Parliament on 19 November.
Hopefully the text of the Regulation will be published in the Official Journal before
too long. Following lobbying as long as a year ago, the agreed text does now include
cultural heritage.
Several amendments were carried by the European Parliament on the subject of
promoting tangible and intangible heritage. When translated into the Regulation they
include the following:
“Article 3 on general objectives
a) To safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic
diversity, and to promote Europe’s cultural heritage.”
On CHAPTER III, the Culture sub programme:
“Article 12 of priorities:
b) Supporting audience development as a means of stimulating interest in,
and improving access to, European cultural and creative works and
tangible and intangible cultural heritage.”
Actions supported include:
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“e) special actions designed to make the richness and diversity of European
cultures more visible and to stimulate intercultural dialogue and mutual
understanding, including Union cultural prizes, the European Capitals of
Culture action and the European heritage Label action.”
LIFE
This programme has also now been approved and should be published shortly in the
Official Journal.
INTERREG
No new details yet, though the overall scheme has now been approved. Each region is
developing its funding programme.
Interreg IVC
www.interreg4c.eu
This site has an approved projects data base, and one on good practices. No new
calls.
North Sea Region
www.northsearegion.eu
Funding fully allocated, 9th call closed. Consultation on the 2014-20 programme also
closed. There is a project ideas section on this web site.
Baltic Sea Region
http://eu.baltic.net
There will be no further calls for projects in this region, as all funds are now
committed. The region has agreed on three priorities for the 2014-20 funding round:
Strengthening research, technological development and innovation
Protecting environment and promoting resource efficiency
Promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key transport
infrastructure.
The programme document is expected to be ready for internal approval in December
and then there will be public consultation before it goes to the European Commission
for approval. Expect first calls at the earliest late 2014.
The most prominent outputs and achievements of finalized projects are now collected
and presented in the project output library at the above web site. Each project is
marked with keywords.
North West Europe Region
www.nweurope.eu
No new calls. There is an opportunity on this web site to have your say about the
2014-20 funding round.
Central Europe Region
www.central2013.eu
All funding allocated.
Atlantic Area
http://www.coop-atlantico.com/
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4th and final call for projects has closed.
A working group has been created to look at the future for the 2014-20 funding
period. There is a survey about this on the website.
South East Europe Region
www.southeast-europe.net
No new calls, funding allocated.
Era-Net
The heritage research section under Era-Net has come to an end. Hopefully it will reinvigorate when the Horizon 2020 funding stream comes along.
HORIZON 2020 (research programme)
The European Parliament has now approved the Horizon 2020 programme. Once EU
member states have rubber stamped it on 11 December the first calls are expected to
follow quickly and will probably best be accessed via your own government. Priority
3 of the programme covers “societal challenges” which include climate, environment
and also marine and maritime and inland water research. There is no specific section
for cultural heritage which is nothing new.
Some information may appear on the Heritage Portal web site :
http://www.heritageportal.eu/ or via the European Commission’s Research site
Cordis: http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html although at present the latter is still
talking about FP7.
Horizon 2020 experts call. The European Commission has put out a call for
individuals for a database of independent experts to assist Commission services with
tasks in connection with Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation. For all information on this go to:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal.page/experts
POLICY
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The European Commission is considering withdrawing a number of proposals
that have allegedly stalled in the legislative process. This includes legislation
implementing the Aarhus Convention on free access to information about
environmental decisions by local governments.
MEPs on the Fisheries Committee have rejected a European Commission
proposal to phase out all deep-sea bottom-trawling in the North East Atlantic.
They have suggested that the practice should only be banned in sensitive
marine areas.
A new centre for Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology
has been set up at UCL in Britain. See
http://www.heritageportal.eu/News-Events/Latest-News/New-centre-forScience-Engineering-in-Arts-Heritage-Archaeology.15394.shortcut.html
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EVENTS
This is a repeat entry.
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
WITH MOSAICS
A Getty Conservation Institute course will be held in Paphos, Greece on April 28 to
May 16 2014. For information see:
http://www.heritageportal.eu/News-Events/Latest-News/Conservation-andManagement-of-Archaeological-Sites-with-Mosaics-.15061.shortcut.html
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AP 25/11/2013
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