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ClusterFund2012-2015EvaluationReport

EUNICGlobal

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Authors:EUNICGlobal:ElisaGrafulla,AndrewMurray,TanjaRasmussenDateofpublication:September2016PublishedbyEUNICGlobal:Brussels

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TableofContents

1.Introduction 4

2.Conclusionsandrecommendations 5

2.1Mainconclusions 5

2.2Recommendations 6

3.AwardedProjects 8

3.1Lackofstrategy 8

3.2FocusondeliveryofeventsandshowcasingofEuropeancultures 10

3.3Lackofresearchandimpactassessment 11

3.4Partnershipstowardsthe(financial)sustainabilityofprojects 13

4.ResponsetoCalls 16

5.Managementprocedure 19

5.1Selectionprocessandcriteria 20

5.2Applicationandevaluationforms 22

5.3Timelineandfollow-up 24

References 26

AnnexI:ObjectivesandexpectedresultsoftheClusterFund(2012-2015) 30

ObjectivesofClusterFund 30

Expectedresults 30

AnnexII:Classificationoftheawardedprojects 31

AnnexIII:Summaryoftheprojectsco-financedbytheClusterFund(2012-2015) 34

ClusterFundYear1(2012-2013) 34



AnnexIV:Listofclustersapplyingandreceivingfunding 65

AnnexV:Methodology 67

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1.IntroductionTheEUNICClusterFundwasestablishedin2012tosupporttheoperationofEUNICclusterswith

additionalfinancialresources.FundedwiththevoluntarycontributionsofEUNICmembers,itwas

guidedbythefollowingfiveobjectives:todesignandimplementEUNICstrategictopics(culturein

external relations, multilingualism); to stimulate cluster action; to enhance inter-cluster

collaboration; to present EUNIC as a global multilateral player; and to make the case of the

importanceofcultureinexternalrelations.

TheClusterFundhasoperated inthreeeditionssofar. Itsthreecalls forprojects(oneperyear)

resultedinto123projectproposalssubmitted,outofwhich39were(co-)fundedwithanoverall

amount of EUR 313,707. The successful proposals represent 31,71 % of the total number of

applicationsreceived.

ThecurrentreportpresentsthefindingsoftheevaluationconductedbyEUNICGlobalinorderto

assess theperformanceof theClusterFund2012-2015aswellas to informthedraftingofnew

guidelines for its operation from2016onwards. Thiswas thedecisionof theGeneralAssembly

heldinDecember2015,whenEUNICHeadsadoptedthefirsteverEUNICStrategicFrameworkand

agreedonsuchanevaluationinviewofadaptingtheupcomingeditionsoftheClusterFundtothe

newStrategicFramework.InJune2016,theconclusionsofthisevaluationwerepresentedtothe

General Assembly which approved the recommendations accompanying them. This report also

documentsthemainaspectsoftheoperationoftheClusterFund2012-2015inordertopreserve

itsinstitutionalmemoryforthefuture.

TheevaluationoftheClusterFundwasconductedbetweenFebruaryandJuly2016,coveringthe

threemainareasthatstructurethisreport:awardedprojects,responsetocallsandmanagement

procedure. The methodology included three phases: a first phase to map and collect the

documentation available; a second phase to extract and organise the relevant data in a

comparableway;anda thirdphaseof furtheranalysisandconclusions toelaborate thepresent

reportwithrecommendationsforthenewClusterFundguidelines.

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2.Conclusionsandrecommendations

2.1Mainconclusions

-Lackofstrategy.Noneoftheclustersmentionedhavingastrategyframingtheawardedproject;this

is not surprising, given that the EUNIC network only approved its first ever Strategic Framework in

December 2015. In some of the projects awarded, where a longer term framework or a certain

strategic approach couldbe considered, itwasobserved that theCluster Fund supportwasused to

confirm, expand or build upon a previous or recurrent cluster project considered as successful; to

integratea clusterproject intoa local/national/internationalevent; to contribute toa relevant local

initiativerespondingtolocalneeds;ortodeliveraprojectfocusingonthethematicareaofworkofthe

cluster.

- Focus on delivery of events.Most of the awarded projects (24 out of 39) focused on delivery of

events.Within these, a tendency to showcase European cultures was observed,with 15 out of 24

projectsdoing so1.Withoutnecessarily implying that the conceptsof promotionand reciprocity are

mutually excluding, the tendency of Cluster Fund projects towards the first one is significant and

reflectstheformerparadigminwhichclustershavebeenoperatingsofar.

- Lack of research. Only three projects out of 39 focused on research related to delivery. This

proportionmaybeanindicatorofthelittleresearchworkcarriedoutbyclustersaheadofthedesign

oftheirprojects.Duringandafterprojectcompletion,aweakness inreportinganda lackof impact

assessmentwasidentified,probablyduetoseveralfactors:firstly,theformulationoftheClusterFund

objectiveswasgeneralandnotaccompaniedbyanymeasurementindicators;secondly,theevaluation

formsprovidedbyEUNICGlobaldidnot includeanyimpactassessmentelementortoolwhatsoever;

andthirdly,thelackofevaluationpracticeontheclusters’side(outofthe39awardedprojects,only

twowereformallyevaluatedbythecluster)2.

-InsufficientpromotionoftheClusterFundprojectsandlessonslearnedwithinthenetwork.Cluster

Fund projects were only communicated via EUNIC Global’s and clusters’ websites. Instead, such

projectscouldbemoreandbettercommunicatedinordertoinspireandstrengthenthenetworkwith

goodpractices;facilitateexchangeofexpertiseandlessonslearned–thereforecontributingtooneof

the purposes of the network as stated in its statutes; motivate less active clusters; promote good 1Onemoreprojectnotincludedinthesefiguresfocusedonbothevents-showcasingandinternalcapacitybuilding.2 The term formal evaluation is used to indicate that the relevant cluster conductedanevaluationof theawarded

projectbeyondfillingintheevaluationformprovidedbyEUNICGlobal.

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practiceexamplesandprojectswiththepotentialtobecomerolemodels;andencourageinter-cluster

collaboration.

2.2Recommendations

The recommendations listed belowwere the result of both the analysis carried out during the

evaluationaswellas theconsultationwiththeBoardofDirectorsandStrategyGroup(Brussels,

February 2016) and Focal Points (Nancy, May 2016). They were presented to the General

AssemblyinCopenhagen(8-9June2016)andapprovedbyit.TheGeneralAssemblyalsopointed

outthe importanceofthesustainabilityoftheClusterFundandaskedtheBoardofDirectorsto

prepare a plan for the next three years. It also encouraged tomove towards amore proactive

approachinallocatingfunding,thiswouldmeanidentifyingpriorityprojectsandtheidentification

ofthemostappropriateclusterstodeliverthem.Thewasageneralagreementthataccesstothe

ClusterFundshouldbemoreflexible,withatleasttwocallsforproposalsperyearmatchedbya

requesttomemberstoreplenishfundingaccordingly.

PurposeandObjectives

PurposeandgoalsoftheClusterFund

-TosupportthedeliveryoftheEUNICStrategicFramework.

-Tosupportthedeliveryofthree-yearclusterstrategies.

-TofacilitateandimprovethequalityofEUNICclusters’projectdelivery.

Specificobjectivesoftheprojectsapplyingforfunding

Clusterswillbeencouragedtoapply forsupport toactionswhichwillhelp themprofessionalise

their project deliverywith a focus on research and preparatory actions towards quality project

delivery3,forexampletodoresearchintolocalpartners’needs,todofeasibilitystudiesinadvance

ofsubmittingaprojectproposal,ortomeettogetherwithotherclusterstodesignandpreparea

3 EUNIC has several instruments to support the operation and professionalisation of clusters, for which a

differentiateduseisproposed:theClusterFundwouldcontributewithfinancialsupporttofacilitateandimprovethe

quality of project delivery (SO1 and SO2); C4Cwould provide training, learning and knowledge exchange support

(SO3); and EUNICMembers (or possibly the EUDelegations in the future)would ensure support in the form of

humanresources(e.g.apart-timeclustercoordinatorintheirpriorityclusters-ideallyapaidpositionthatwouldnot

onlycoordinatetheclusterbutalsokeepitsinstitutionalmemory).

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jointregionalaction.Whentheyapplyforfundingforprojectdelivery,theselectioncriteriawillbe

robust and require that the project objectives are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable,

RealisticandTime-bound),alignedwiththeClusterFundpurposeandgoals,andaccompaniedby

asetofbasicmeasurementindicators.

Geographicalcoverage

-Twoseparatefundingstreams,oneforEU-clustersandoneforclustersoutsidetheEU.

-Eachfundingstreamisawarded50%oftheClusterFundenvelope.

Selectionprocess

-Moreflexibleandresponsivebymeansoftwiceayearcalls.

- One-step selectionprocess to save time forboth clustersand the selection team:actions

applyingforfundingwillonlybeassessedonashortconceptnote(max.2pages)4.

- EUNIC Global to assess the applications, instead of the Strategy Group, and to make

recommendationstotheBoardofDirectorswhowillthenapprovethem.

4DuringtheconsultationtoFocalpoints(Nancy,May2016),thesesuggestedatwo-stepselectionprocesswhereby

proposalswouldfirstlybeassessedonthebasisofashortdescription(max.1page)and,followingthis,onlythepre-

selectedapplicantswouldbeinvitedtosubmitafullapplicationtocompeteforfunding.However,thismayresultinto

atoo lengthyandcomplicatedselectionprocess,especiallywhenconsideringthatthetotalenvelopeof theCluster

FundisEUR106.000(2016).

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3.AwardedProjects5

In thissectionaqualitativeandquantitativeanalysiswascarriedoutconcerningthe39projects

thatreceivedfundingfromtheClusterFund.Allthroughoutthisreportthethreeeditionsofthe

ClusterFundarereferredtoasfollows:yearone(Y1) forthefirstedition(2012-2013);yeartwo

(Y2)forthesecondedition(2013-2014)andyearthree(Y3)forthethirdedition(2014-2015).

3.1Lackofstrategy

None of the clusters mentioned having a strategy framing the awarded projects. In the cases

whereawider/longtermframeworkoracertainstrategicapproachcouldbeconsidered, itwas

observedthattheClusterFundsupportwasusedto:

• Establish, expand and/or build upon a recurrent cluster project or a previous initiative

consideredassuccessful(41%oftheco-financedprojectshadtakenplacebeforewithout

supportfromtheClusterFund6);

• Integrate a cluster project into awider local/national/international project (for instance,

theprogrammeoftheEuropeanCapitalofCulture,aninternationalfair,etc.);

• Participateinorcontributetolocalinitiativesthatrespondtolocalneeds;

• One cluster indicated that the project awarded focused on a common thematic area of

worksharedbytheclustermembers.

5 The analysis presented in this section is based on the information available from the application and evaluation

forms of the awarded projects. The information on certain projects was not detailed enough or updated due to

differentreasons:

a) lack of an evaluation form: thiswas the case of 11 out of 39 projects,mostly from Y2. In these cases, the

informationusedfortheanalysiswastheoneprovidedintheapplicationform;

b) vagueorextremelyshortevaluationformprovidingincompleteinformation;

c) a lackof a final budget indicating the real expensesof theproject: in these cases, theestimatesusedwere

thoseaccompanyingtheapplicationform.6A totalof six clusters (Brussels,Brazil-Brasilia,Bucharest, Egypt, JordanandPalestine) received funding from the

ClusterFund in leasttwoeditions,EUNICPalestinereceivedfundingforall threeyears.Thecluster inBrasilia is the

only one that received funding for the same project; the other clusters mentioned received funding for different

projects.

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TheClusterFundasatooltobuilduponpreviousclusterprojects

TheEuropeWeekinBrazil,organisedbytheEUNICcluster inBrasiliaincollaborationwiththe

EUDelegationinthecountry,startedasaEuropeDayandhasgrownovertheyearstobecome

the flagship project of the cluster. Its 12th edition (May-June 2016) lasted 6 weeks and took

place in 11 capital cities in Brazil with the support over 40 local partners. The Cluster Fund

support, awarded in two editions (Y2, Y3), helped to expand its outreach. Further info:

http://www.semanadaeuropa.org/.

EUNICThailandandtheEUdiplomaticrepresentationsinthiscountryhadpreviouslydeveloped

theEuropeanHeritageMapofBangkokandAyutthaya,whichhighlighted65sitesofcommon

heritageofThailandandEurope.Giventheconsiderablegrowthofsmartphoneandappusage

by young Thais, the cluster and the EU diplomatic representations developed the European

HeritageMapandCultural Calendar smartphoneapplication with the support of theCluster

Fund. The Appwas intended to expand the coverageof themap tomore than 200 common

heritage sites; make it more available, particularly to young people; and provide up-to-date

informationon theculturalevents thatEUMember Statesorganise in the country.Download

theapp:http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/thailand/europeanheritagemap/index_en.htm

CinnamonColomboscopeisamultidisciplinaryartsfestivalencouragingreflectionontheurban

changes taking place in the city of Colombo, a city which is reinventing itself as a modern

metropolisfollowingtheendofthecivilwarin2009.Its2015edition,co-financedbytheCluster

Fund, brought together participants from Sri Lanka, South Asia and Europe to discuss about

whatthesechangesmeanforColombo'smulti-ethnicandmulti-faith inhabitantsaswellasthe

role for arts and culture in this changing environment. The theme resulted from a common

themeintheprogrammesofthethreemembersofEUNICSriLanka:theimportanceofthearts

in the context of urban development and creating space for artistic expression and

experimentation.Furtherinfo:http://www.cinnamoncolomboscope.com/.

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3.2FocusondeliveryofeventsandshowcasingofEuropeancultures

Duringtheanalysis,the39projectsawardedwereclassifiedaccordingtotheirmainfocuswitha

viewtounderstandingwhatclustershavebeenusingtheClusterFundfor.Significantwasthefact

thatmostoftheprojects(24)focusedondeliveryofpublicevents.Withoutnecessarily implying

thattheconceptsofshowcasingandreciprocityaremutuallyexcluding, itwasobservedthat15

out of the 24 event-focused projects7 did showcase European cultures through a variety of

celebrations (EuropeDay, EuropeanDayof Languages, LiteratureNight, EuropeanFilmFestival)

and activities (exhibition, fair, competition, festivals, conferences, public workshops,

performances).

Thistendencyreflectstheformerparadigminwhichclustershavebeenoperatingsofarandwas

noted in several studies (KEA, 2016; McIntosh et al., 2015), although a change in perspective

towards cultural relations, focusing more on people-to-people dialogue andmutual learning is

being recommended (Isar et al., 2014; European Commission and High Representative of the

UnionforForeignAffairsandSecurityPolicy, 2016)andobserved(McIntoshetal.,2015).

In a smaller proportion (8 out of 39), other projects could be considered as rather focusing on

supporting the local sectors/stakeholders (by delivering trainings/seminars, facilitatingmeetings

orpurchasingequipment).

7 These figures do not include a project classified as focusion on both events-showcasing and internal capacity

building.

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3.3Lackofresearchandimpactassessment

TheanalysisofClusterFundprojects indicatedthatfewofthemfocusedonpreparatoryactions

towardsqualityprojectdelivery:

- Onlythreeoutof39projectsfocusedonresearch,twoofwhichtoinformprojectdelivery.

Thismaybean indicatorof the little researchwork carriedoutby clustersaheadof the

designoftheiractivities.

- Twoprojectsfocusedoninternalcapacity-building(fortheclusterortheEUNICnetwork),

and another two projects corresponded to both events/activities and internal capacity-

building.

Beyondshowcasing:buildingrelationshipsandunderstanding

Formorethantwodecades,therevitalisationofurbandecayedareashadbeenamajor issueofcivil

society engagement in Baltimore. This process received the name of Creative Place making. EUNIC

WashingtonDC, having gained the support froma EUprogramtoallowEuropeanartists fromcities

with similarsituationstoparticipate inBaltimore’sCreativePlacemaking,understoodthat itwasan

important precondition for the cooperation to take place on an equal footing. Their Cluster Fund

projectwas intended tobring three individuals fromBaltimore’s relevantorganisations tomeetwith

representatives of the European Capitals of Culture or other cities that had dealt with similar

challengestothosefacedbyBaltimore’sArtsandEntertainmentDistricts.TheClusterFundinvestment

wasexpectedtoserveasseedmoneyforadditionalcommitmentbytheCityofBaltimore.

ThroughtheprojectArtsforSocialDevelopment,EUNICAthenscreatedaplatformtoexploretheway

inwhich arts and cultural projects can act as a driver for social change. Focusing on three thematic

areas (arts and social inclusion, arts and social entrepreneurship, and creative industries and local

development), a series of workshops, talks, events and activities took place over 8 months. The

programmebroughttogetherartprofessionals,policy-makers,educators,academicsandstakeholders

and highlighted the value of interactions and cross-sector collaboration. The workshops involved

migrantsandethnicminoritycommunities,localcommunities,youngprofessionalsanddisadvantaged

groupsinthecityofAthens,contributingtobettercohesionandempoweredcommunitygroupsaswell

asgeneratinginnovativeideasforfutureprojectsandcollaborations.

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Theanalysis also showedaweakness inevaluationand impact assessmentofprojects asonly

two out of the 39 projects awarded fundingwere formally evaluated by the clusters8. In those

caseswhere clusters’ evaluation forms includea reference to theperformanceof their project,

these mainly refer to figures on participation and informal feed-back from participants. This

reflectsalackofimpactassessmentpracticethatshouldbeaddressed9.

PartiallymotivatedbythefactthattheapplicationandevaluationformsprovidedbyEUNICGlobal

did not include any impact assessment element or tool, this lack of data makes it difficult to

concludetowhatextenttheawardedprojectscontributedtotheobjectivesandexpectedresults

8By formalevaluation isunderstooda specificevaluationconductedby theclusterbeyond filling in theevaluation

formprovidedbyEUNICGlobal,whichwassentforthemtoreportafterprojectcompletion.9 Data in this field could maybe provide evidence on the gap indicated by cluster Presidents (EUWorking Group

meeting,Brussels,March2016)inrelationtowhatisexpectedfromclustersandwhattheirrealityisinpractice.

ClusterFundsupporttoresearchandinternalcapacity-buildingactivities

Inthefieldofresearch,theClusterFundco-financedtwofeasibilitystudies:oneonaEuropean

CulturalCentreinAmman(EUNICJordanincollaborationwiththeEUDelegation),andanother

oneonaDiplomainculturalmanagementfortheMENAregion(EUNICEgypt).Italsoawarded

fundingforEUNICRabattocontributetotheresearchprojectDiagnosisandinventoryofarts

andcultureinMorocco,whichwasbeingcarriedoutbyAssociationRacines,bysupportingthe

participationofEUexpertsina2-dayworkshoptowriterecommendationsforaculturalpolicy

proposalinMoroccoaswellaspromotingtheprojectwithintheframeworkoftwoconferences.

Inrelationtointernalcapacity-building,twoeditionsofClusterFundco-financedatrainingfor

staff ofEUNICmembers onhowtobuildsuccessful EUproject proposals (EUNICBrussels in

collaborationwithEUNICGlobaland theECRepresentation inBelgium).TheClusterFundalso

providedsupportforEUNICTurkeytoorganisetheEuropeanDayofLanguageswhichincluded

atrainingonICTforlanguageteachingfortheirlanguageteachersandpartners.

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of the Cluster Fund (listed in Annex I). In addition to this, the formulation of the Cluster Fund

objectives and expected resultswas general and not accompanied bymeasurement indicators.

Withthedataavailable, the linkof theawardedprojects totheClusterFundobjectivesandthe

expectedresultscouldonlybeinferred,exceptfortheobjectiverelatedtoenhancinginter-cluster

collaboration,whichcouldbenumberedtoonlyfiveoutof39projects.

In general, the expected results covered areas ranging from outreach and promotion (EUNIC

visibility and positioning, reaching to wider and diverse audiences, strengthening relationships

with local communities, promoting European values), to partnerships, from internal capacity-

building(designingnewformatsforthenetwork,consolidationandprofessionalisationofclusters)

toadvocatingtheroleofcultureasatoolforexternalrelations.Otherresultsemergingduringthe

analysisoftheevaluationformswerethepromotionoftheaddedvalueoftheEuropeanapproach

aswellasexternalcapacity-building.

3.4Partnershipstowardsthe(financial)sustainabilityofprojects

Partnershipsareakeyelement in thedevelopmentand implementationofclusterprojects,not

only in terms of financial sustainability but also to coordinate actions between the EU actors

locallybasedinthesamecountry/region,tobringcomplementaryknowledgeandexpertisetothe

projects,tobuildrelationshipswiththelocalrelevantsectorsandstakeholders,etc.Theanalysis

oftheawardedprojectsshowedthatEUNICclustersworkwithEuropeanUnionDelegations(EU

Delegations) and European Commission Representations (EC Representations) aswell aswith a

varietyoflocalpartners.

ConcerningtheEUDelegationsandECRepresentations,46,15%oftheprojectsco-fundedwere

deliveredwith some support from or in collaborationwith these,with at least eight out of 39

projectsreceivingfundingfromthem10.Thepercentageofprojectsinvolvingsuchacollaboration

improvedover the threeClusterFundeditions, going from41,67% inY1, to38,89% inY2and

then55,56%inY3.ThiswasprobablyencouragedbythecriteriaintroducedinY2andY3inthis

regard.HowtheprojectsspecificallylinktoEUpoliciesremains,however,difficulttounderstand

10 Two clusters not located in the same city as the EUDelegation/ EC Representation directly reported difficulties

and/orwerenotlikelytocollaboratewithEUDelegation/ECRepresentationduetothedistanceseparatingthem.

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since several application and evaluation forms, despitementioning such a link, do not indicate

whichpolicyandhow.IftheclustersindicatinganalignmentwithEUpoliciesareconsideredand

addedtothenumberofclustersindirectcollaborationwithEUDelegations/ECRepresentations,

then66,67%clusterprojectswererelatedtoEUpoliciesinY1;61,11%inY2;and88,89%inY3.

Theanalysis also showed thatoverall, 89,74%of theawardedprojects involvedoneor several

localorganisations,withagradualincreasefrom83,33%inY1,to88,89%inY2to100%inY3.The

numberoflocalpartnersrangedfromonepartnerto47partners.Thetypeoflocalorganisations

wasverydiverseaswell,encompassingcafesuniversities,media,Ministries,culturalorganizations

andvenueholders,etc.

InadditiontotheClusterFundgrant,theawardedprojectsalsohaddifferentsourcesoffinancing:

financialandin-kindcontributionsfromclustermembers(atleast28outof39projects11),theEU

Delegations/ECRepresentations,thelocalpartners(Ministries,citycouncils,universities,cultural

institutions,etc.)andsponsors.Threeprojectsevenreferredtoincomesproceedingfromthefees

fortrainingdeliveredorticketscharged.

Basedonthedataavailable12,thedegreeofco-financingfromtheEUNICClusterFundshowsabig

varietyaswell13,goingfrom2,85%oftheoverallcosttocompletelyfinancingsomeprojects(four

projects out of 35). The lowest percentage of co-financing awarded indicates a positive

development,goingfrom21,74%inY1,to2,85%inY2and6%inY3.Twoclustersevenspentless

thanthefundingtheywereprovided14.

11Notallprojectsprovideddatainthisregard.12Atotalof35outof39projects.13Thepercentagesontheco-financingof theClusterFundprojectsshouldbeconsideredas indicativefiguressince

not all awardedprojects reportedon their final budgets. Theestimates from theapplication formswere therefore

usedtocalculatethem. 14Oneclusterindicatedminorchangesinthecostsincludedintheestimatedbudgetoftheapplicationform,whereas

theotheronespentonlyhalfofthegrantduetounderfundingoflocalprojectpartnersaswellasalackofresponse

from themarketing company promoting the events,which resulted in certain activities not being carried out. The

clusteriscurrentlydiscussinghowtobestusetheremainingamountinafollow-upproject.

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Consideringallthreeeditions,19outof35projectsreceivedlessthan50%co-financingfromthe

ClusterFund.ThisrepresentedoverhalfoftheprojectsforY1andY2(sixoutof10andnineoutof

16,respectively)andlessthanhalfinY3(fouroutofnine).Itshouldbenoted,however,thatthe

amountsgrantedinY3aremuchbiggerthanforpreviouseditionsoftheClusterFund.

Figure 3 below displays a comparative histogram with the co-funding awarded by the EUNIC

ClusterFundperyearandinintervals.

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4.ResponsetoCalls

Thefindingspresentedbelowaretheresultofthequantitativeanalysiscarriedoutinrelationto

the123applicationsreceivedbytheClusterFundoveritsthreeeditions.

Each year between 30 % and 55% of clusters applied for funding from the Cluster Fund, the

clustersapplyingbeingalmostevenlysplitbetweentheEuroperegion15andtheothernon-Europe

regions.InY1andY2,abouthalfoftheapplicantswerefromtheEuroperegion.Consideringthat

40outof the83,and42outof90clusters inY1andY2, respectively,are in theEuroperegion,

clustersinsideandoutsideEuropeseemtobealmostequallyactiveinapplyingforfunding.InY3,

anddespitethefactthattheEuroperegioninY3had43clustersandthenon-Europeregionshad

50 clusters in total, only ten applicants were from Europe region, whereas 20 applicants were

fromnon-Europeregions.ThisreflectsthefactthatclusterprojectstargetingEUMemberStates,

evenpartially,werenoteligibleinY3.Theimpactofthiscriterionisalsoobservedintheselection

results: for the first two years about half of the projects fundedwere from clusters in Europe,

howeverinY3onlytwooutofnineawardedprojectstookplaceandwereledbyclustersinthis

region.

The analysis also shows that relatively few clusters are active in applying for Cluster Fund

support16.Atotalof37clustersappliedinY1;26outofthe46clustersapplyinginY2hadapplied

forfundingtheyearbefore. InY3,19ofthe30applyingclustershadappliedintheyearbefore.

Overall,only11clustersappliedallthreeyears17.Eachyear,twotofiveclusterssubmittedmore

than one project, with some of them submitting up to four projects for the same call. When

comparingthelistofclustersparticipatingintheEUNICClusterAssessmentcarriedoutbyEUNIC

Globalin2015andthosesubmittingapplicationsfortheClusterFund,71,67%ofthe60clusters

15TheEuroperegioncurrently includes theclusters in the28EUMemberStatesaswellas theclusters in:Albania,

BosniaandHerzegovina,TheFormerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia,Georgia,RepublicofMoldova,Russia,Republic

ofSerbia,Turkey,andUkraine(listofmay2016;someoftheclusterswereestablishedindifferentyearssince2012).16 The quantitative analysis of the 123 applications considered only those clusters leading on and submitting the

project proposal. Other clusters that may have been involved in these applications by means of inter-cluster

collaborationwerenotcounted.17 The clusters that applied for funding all three years were: Peru, Washington, Georgia, Philippines, Bucharest,

London,Stockholm,Egypt,Jordan,PalestineandSouthAfrica.

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thatansweredtheclusterassessmentquestionnaire(meaning42outofthe94existingones)had

appliedfortheClusterFundsupportinthelastthreeyears.Figure2belowillustratesthenumber

of clusters established, the number of clusters leading on and submitting one ormore project

proposal,andthefinalnumberofawardedprojectsacrossthethreeeditionsoftheClusterFund.

Source:EUNICGlobal

ComparingtheregionsoutsideEurope,itappearsthattheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica(MENA)18 18TheMiddleEastandNorthAfricaregioncomprisestheclusters located inAlgeria,Egypt,IslamicRepublicof Iran,

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region is themostactive,andthat theSub-SaharanAfrica19 is the leastactive in regard toboth

applyingforfundingandbeingawardedfunding.Thisisparticularlyinterestinggiventhefactthat

bothhaveaboutthesamenumberofclusters.InY1oftheClusterFund,sixoutofsevenclusters

inMENAappliedforfunding;inY2,fiveoutofnineclustersfromthisregionapplied,andinY3a

totalofsixoutoftenclustersappliedforfunding,withatleasttwooftheseapplicationsinvolving

inter-clustercollaborationsofuptofourclusters,mainlywithclusterswithintheregion,butalso

withclustersfromtheEuroperegion(seealsoFigure2).FortheY1theSub-SaharanAfricaregion

hadtenclusterswithonlythreeapplicants,Y2had11clusterswithtwoapplicantsand lastlyY3

had12clustersandthreeapplicants.

Taken its size into consideration, the MENA region is very active when compared with the

Americas20 and Asia-Oceania21 regions as well although these two regions have slightly more

clusters-theAmericashad13clusterswithfiveapplicantsinY1,and15clustersinY2andY3with

nineandsixapplicants,respectively;theAsia-Oceaniaregionhad13clustersforY1andY2with,

respectively, fiveandsixapplicants,and inY3 ithad14clusterswithfiveapplicants.Taking into

accounttheirnumberofclusters,theAmericasandAsia-Oceaniaregionsarelessactiveinapplying

forandbeingawardedfundingbytheClusterFund.

Itshouldbenoted,however,thatduetotherotatingnatureofthepostingsofEUNICmembers’

branches, the level of activity of a cluster may also change in a relatively short time. Largely

dependingonthecommitmentoftheindividualsrunningit,averyactiveclustermayturnintoa

lessornotatallactiveclusterinonlyfewmonths(orviceversa)duetoachangeinitsleadership.

19TheSub-SaharanAfrica regioncomprises clusters in the followingcountries:Angola,Cameroon,Ethiopia,Ghana,

Mozambique,Namibia,Nigeria,Senegal,SouthAfrica,Sudan,UnitedRepublicofTanzania,andRepublicofZimbabwe

(listofmay2016;someoftheclusterswereestablishedindifferentyearssince2012).20TheAmericasregioncomprisestheclustersinArgentina,Brazil,Canada,Chile,Colombia,Mexico,UnitedStatesof

America, Peru,Uruguay, andVenezuela (list ofmay2016; someof the clusterswere established in different years

since2012).21 The Asia – Oceania region comprises the clusters based in Afghanistan, Australia, People’s Republic of China,

Georgia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Republic of

Uzbekistan,andVietnam(listofmay2016;someoftheclusterswereestablishedindifferentyearssince2012).

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5.Managementprocedure

ThissectionreviewshowtheClusterFundwasmanagedintermsofselectionprocess,evaluation

criteria,documentationprovided toapply for fundingand to reporton theawardedprojectsas

wellasthefollowupofthese.

The reviewof thedocumentationshowed in the firstplace that theClusterFund information is

recorded in different sources (General Assembly reports, minutes of Strategy Groupmeetings,

applicationpackages,applicationandevaluationforms,etc.)andsometimesnotdetailedenough.

The difficulty to collect clusters’ evaluation forms after project completion (no evaluation form

wassubmittedfor11outofthe39awardedprojects)aswellastheturnoverofstaffbothatthe

EUNICGlobalofficeandwithinthenetworkofEUNICclustersmayhavecontributedtothis.Given

the importanceofkeeping the institutionalmemoryof thenetwork ingeneraland theCluster

Fund inparticular, this reportwasexpandedto includenotonly theresultsof theevaluationof

theCluster Fund2012-2015butalso todocument themainaspectsof itsoperationduring this

period.

According to the information available, which dates from 2014 (EUNIC Global, 2014d), the

strategicguidanceoftheClusterFundwasagreedonbytheGeneralAssemblytakingintoaccount

the recommendationsof theStrategyGroup22.Following this, thedocumentationpackages (call

for submission, application form and evaluation form) were prepared by EUNIC Global and

communicatedtoclusters.

22 EUNIC StrategyGroupwas setup in 2010at theGeneralAssembly inBucharest inorder to advise theBoardof

Directors and the Heads on strategic topics. Originally, the Strategy Group included the Board of Directors, which

nominatedthreerepresentativesfromtheirorganisations,andsixothermembers(EUNICGlobal,2010:5).Atpresent,

theStrategyGroupconsistsof10members(EUNICGlobal.2011b:1)andischairedbyEUNICPresident.Itsmembers

areelectedforaperiodof2yearsonthebasisoftheirCV.

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5.1Selectionprocessandcriteria23

TwoprocesseswereusedtoselecttheClusterFundprojectsinthepastthreeeditions:

- One-step selectionprocess (Y1 and Y2): themembers of the StrategyGroup ratedeach

projectproposal individually,onascalefrom1to5,onthebasisoftheselectioncriteria

defined for the relevant year. InY2aneligibility criterionwas introduced toensure that

onlytheprojectsmeetingtheobjectivesoftheClusterFundwouldbeassessedagainstthe

eligibilitycriteria.TheStrategyGroupcarriedoutthiseligibilitycheckwhenevaluatingthe

projects.

- Two-step selection process (Y3): The selection process was split into two phases: an

eligibility checkwas first carried out by EUNIC Global against a set of eligibility criteria,

followedbytheformalselectionwherebytheStrategyGroupmembersratedeachproject,

on a scale from 0-3, against the selection criteria. In order to ensure the quality of the

projects,onlythosewithanaveragescoreequaltoorhigherthaneightwere(co)funded.

Inbothcases theStrategyGroupwas taskedwith the ratingof theprojectproposals.However,

and given the strategic nature of the group, it is questionable whether this task should be

performedbyitinthefutureorwhetherinsteadtheirexpertisecouldbebetteruseddifferently.

IntheStrategyGroup2014proposalofnewcriteriafortheClusterFund,thequestionwasraised

whetherthetimespent,ingeneral,onmanagingtheClusterFundbyboththeStrategyGroupand

EUNICGlobalwaswellspentwhenthefundingprovidedtoprojectswasEUR7.500orless(Y1and

Y2) (StrategyGroup,2014).Asa resultof thediscussion, themaximumamountthat theCluster

FundawardedinY3wasraisedtoupto20.000EURperproject.

TheanalysisofthecriteriafortheClusterFundselectionshowsthattheseevolvedalongsidethe

23 In thepresent report, three termsareused to refer to thecriteriaof theClusterFund formoreconsistencyand

coherence:

- Eligibilitycriteriaarethosethatneedtobemetbyaprojectproposaltobefurtherevaluated.Theanalysisofthe

awardedprojects indicatedthatprojectproposalshadtomeetat leastoneoftheeligibilitycriteria indicatedin

therelevantcall.

- Selectioncriteriaarethoseagainstwhichtheproposalsareevaluatedandratedfollowingtheeligibilitycheck,if

any.TheseservetoassessthequalityoftheproposalaswellasitsalignmenttotheClusterFundcall.

- Evaluationcriteriaisthegeneraltermusedinthisreporttorefertobotheligibilityandselectioncriteria.

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selectionprocess,howevercertainrecurrentelementswereobserved:

- Thefinancialsustainability,acriterioncommontoallthreeeditions,becamemorespecific

over the years, from merely referring to the income potential of the project (Y1) to

mentioningmatch-funding (Y2) to finally requiring at least 50% of co-financing by other

sourcesthantheClusterFund.

- ThethematicapproachoftheprojectswasdefinedbyEUNICstrategictopicsinY1andY2

(culture and external relations, multilingualism, culture and development, creative

industries),however inY2a secondcriterionwas introduced toestablisha linkbetween

theprojectsco-financedandtheprioritiesofEUDelegations/ECRepresentations.InY3,the

focus was definitely placed on the EU’s foreign policy by means of both an eligibility

criterion - excluding proposals not targeting the geographical priorities of EU’s foreign

policy-aswellasaselectioncriterion-relatedtotheproject’salignmentwithEU’sforeign

policy. While the partnership with the EU Institutions is one of the EUNIC network’s

purposedandindicatedinitsStatutes(EUNICGlobal,2011a),suchanemphasisontheEU’s

foreignpolicymadeitdifficultforEUclusterstoapplyforfundinginY3.

- Acommunicationelementwaspresentinallthreeeditionsbutreflecteddifferentlyinthe

criteria,rangingfromhighvisibilityandimpactonprioritytargetaudiences(Y1),totheuse

ofsocialmediaandnewtechnologies(Y2)andthecommunicationpotentialoftheproject

aswellastheprofileoftheaudience,inparticularyoungaudiences(Y3).

OtherrelevantelementsincludedintheClusterFundcriteriawerethepotentialforbecominga

rolemodelforthenetwork (Y1),the innovation/originality (introducedinY2andmaintainedin

Y3),theEuropeanaddedvalue(Y1)andanetworking/trainingfocusofprojects(Y2).

Concerning the ratingprocessofClusterFundproposals, anotherquestion tobeconsidered for

the future editions of the Cluster Fund is how to minimise the subjectivity of evaluators and

ensure a maximum of objectivity during this process. In fact, a working paper elaborated in

preparation of the Y3 call indicated that the interpretation of criteria had differed across the

StrategyGroupmembersevaluatingtheproposalstheyearbefore(StrategyGroup,2014).

Finally,theproceduretodeterminehowthefinancialenvelopeavailableforeacheditionwasto

be spent also evolved across the three editions: in Y1 and Y2 the aimwas to finance asmany

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projectsaspossible,andthe financial supportofeachgrantwasamaximumofEUR10.000per

project (no minimum amount was established for each individual grant, probably to avoid

discouraging smaller projects24). Instead, in Y3 a minimum score of eight was introduced for

projectstobefinanced,andthegrantwassetbetweenaminimumofEUR.5.000andamaximum

of EUR 20.000. This factor, together with the focus on the EU’s foreign policy, may have

contributed to lowering the number of applicants and having fewer but larger cluster projects

selectedforfundinginY3(seefigure1below).

Figure1:AmountsawardedbytheClusterFund,numberofco-financedprojectsandnumberof

applicationsdividedbyyear

AmountoftheClusterFund

spend(inEURO)

Numberofco-

financedprojects

Numberof

applications

Year1 80.147,51 12 41

Year2 100.000,00 18 51

Year3 133.560,00 9 31

Total 313.707,51 39 123

Source:EUNICGlobal

5.2Applicationandevaluationforms25

TheapplicationandevaluationsformsprovidedbyEUNICGlobalwereshort(twopages),coherent

with the selection criteria, and intended to gather comparable information about the projects

whilst easy to fill in. However, during the process of analysing them several weaknesses were

observed.

24AsindicatedintheClusterFundcallsforY1andY2”(…)smallerprojectsshallnotbediscouraged”(EUNICGlobal,

2012a).25EvaluationformsaretheformspreparedbyEUNICGlobal forclusterstoreportontheco-financedprojectsafter

their completion. The evaluation forms did not constitute a formal evaluation of the projects as such. For amore

consistentuseofthelanguage,inthefutureeditionsoftheClusterFundadifferenttermsuchas“reportingtemplate”

couldbeusedinordertokeeptheterm“evaluation”fortheformalevaluationoftheco-financedprojects.

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Firstly,alackofreferencestoformalevaluationwasidentifiedintheapplicationandevaluation

forms. Inaddition to this, someof thecriteriaused to select theawardedprojects,whichwere

then used to elaborate the evaluation forms (e.g. high impact, European added value, high

visibility),wereneither precise enoughnor accompaniedby indicators tomeasure success (e.g.

howmuchmediaattentionisneededtobeabletoassertthataprojecthadhighvisibility?;how

canEuropeanaddedvaluebemeasured?;whatisconsideredtobeahighimpactproject?)orby

indications about the relevant elements that clusters should emphasize when reporting about

theirprojects.Betterdefinitionsof the selectioncriteriaand the introductionofa setof simple

indicators defined beforehand (e.g. number of new partnerships established, number of

partnershipsbuildingonpreviouscollaborations)couldfacilitatethereportingfromclusters.The

general formulationof theevaluation criteria couldpartiallyexplain the tendency to vagueand

abstract wordings as well as the sometimes different focus observed in the evaluation forms.

Moreprecisecriteriawouldthereforebelikelytoresultinmorepreciseandfocusedtextsinthe

reportingphase.

The second weakness observed is related to the difficulty to track the changes made to the

projectsduringtheirimplementation.Theevaluationformdidnotincludeanyfieldforclustersto

explain modifications to project activities, partners or content due to political developments,

unforeseen difficulties, etc. The challenges faced during implementation as well as the key

successfactorsaremissingfromtheevaluationformaswell. Includingthesetwoelements in it

would not only simplify their analysis but it could also provideuseful information to be shared

withclusterstoimprovethedesignandimplementationoffutureprojects.

Lastly, a difficulty to track projects’ budgetswas also noted. A copy of the final budget was

requested only in Y3 by means of an invitation to attach it to the evaluation form. Since no

template for budgets was provided by EUNIC Global, the final budgets submitted, when

submitted, adopted many different structures and used different currencies, therefore

complicating their analysis. A standard template for the projects’ budget could be proposed in

order to be able to track easily how and for what expenses the financial contributions of the

ClusterFundwereusedaswellaswhatothercontributions(in-kind,cash)theprojectreceived.

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5.3Timelineandfollow-up

The Cluster Fund calls for projectswere launched once a year, in the last quarter of the year.

Therewereonetoone-and-a-halfmonthsbetweenthepublicationofthecallandthedeadlinefor

submission of proposals. The announcement of results took place two to four weeks after

(includingChristmasholidays).

TheanalysisindicatedthatClusterFundprojectstookplaceallovertheyearandthattheactivities

described in the application forms needed sometimes to be adapted to local political

developments.Takingintoaccountthechangingenvironmentsinwhichclustersoperateaswellas

thedifferentprogrammingandfinancialcyclesguidingtheoperationofEUNICmembers,onlyone

call per year offers a limited flexibility for the Cluster Fund to respond to clusters’ needs.

Instead,andassuggestedbytheBoardofDirectorsatthemeetingonthe25thofFebruary,2016

inBrusselsaswellasthefocalpointsatthemeetingorganisedinNancyon12-13May2016,two

callsperyearwouldmakeitmoreadaptabletotherealityofbothEUNICclustersandmembers.It

mayalsoleadtoreducingthegap,identifiedonseveraloccasions,betweentheapplicationforms

andthefinalactivitiescarriedoutbytheprojects.

EUNICGlobal’scommunicationandpromotionoftheawardedprojectshasroomforimprovement

aswell.Followingthenotificationoftheresultsoftheselection,theawardedprojectswereonly

communicatedaftertheircompletionbyuploadingashortarticlewithpicturesonEUNICGlobal

website or on the relevant cluster website. Cluster Fund projects could be more and better

promotedwithinthenetwork (orevenbeyond it) inordertobring inspirational ideastoEUNIC

clusters. Indeed, the EUNIC Cluster Assessment carried out in 2015 (EUNIC Global, 2015b)

reported clusters’ request for more information about projects designed and implemented by

otherclusters.Thiscouldbedonebymeansofnewsletters (INSIGHTforClusters), socialmedia,

EUNICApp,anannualpublicationofclusterprojects,orawebsite/appdocumentingthem26.

26Anexampleofsuchanappcouldbetheifmapp,developedbyInstitutfrançaisParisfortheFranco-GermanCultural

Fund: http://ifmapp.institutfrancais.com/ffa#f1_accueil_1-Bienvenue-sur-l-IFmapp-du-Fonds-culturel-franco-

allemand-Willkommen-auf-der-IFmapp-des-Deutsch-Franzosischer-Kulturfonds-Zoom-sur).

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Inadditiontobringingrolemodelprojectideastoclusters,thefurtherpromotionofClusterFund

projects may as well incentivise the awarded clusters to fill in and provide more complete

evaluation forms–theanalysis showed that for 11outof the39awardedprojects the relevant

cluster did not report on the project after completion, and some of the evaluation forms

submittedwereextremelyshort.

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d) EUNICClusters:ApplicationandevaluationformssubmittedbytheawardedprojectsYear1

1. EUNICAustria:"2ndEUNICWEEKinVienna-EUNICrolemodelproject”2. EUNICBrussels:HowtobuildaEuropeanproject-TrainingforEUNICstaff3. EUNICChina:EUandcreativeindustries 4. EUNICCroatia:ArtEnergy:creativevisionsofnatureandtechnologies5. EUNICEgypt:Diplomainculturalmanagement-feasibilitystudy/MENAregion6. EUNIC Estonia: Debate project "Contact Point - Culture", on cultural diplomacy in a

changingworld 7. EUNICGeorgia:LiteratureNight 8. EUNIC Hungary: European Languages Cocktail Bar - Promoting Multilingualism –

competition9. EUNICJordan:SightsandsoundsofEurope

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10. EUNIC Palestine: Gestures of return: a cultural programme examining questions aroundPalestiniandisplacement-CultureandcreativeindustriesinPalestine

11. EUNICTurkey:EuropeanDayoflanguages+Trainingforteachers 12. EUNICWashingtonDC:EuropeanCreativePlacemakinginBaltimore

Year2

1. EUNICAlmaty:EuropeanDayofLanguages2. EUNICAthens:ArtsforSocialDevelopment 3. EUNICBrazil:EuropeWeekofBrazil4. EUNICBrussels:TrainingonEUProjectDevelopment5. EUNICBucharest:EuropeanComicsFestivalinBucharest 6. EUNICCordoba:EUNICFestivalofContemporaryEuropean7. EUNICEgypt:UpgradingtheRawabetSpace,DowntownCairo8. EUNICJordan:FeasibilityStudyforaEuropeanCulturalCenterinAmman"9. EUNICKrakow:PLAYPUBLIK2014-InternationalFestivalofGamesinPublicSpac 10. EUNICLatvia:EuropeanSoundandAudiovisualArtsExhibitionsSKAN2asOfficialPartof

the"Riga-EuropeanCapitalofCulture2014"Programme.11. EUNICLondon:SursumLinguae12. EUNICLyon:TwoMinutesforEurope!–EUNICCompetition201413. EUNICPalestine:EuropeanFocusonYouthLiteratureandComics -Professionalizationof

thePalestinianInternationalBookFair 14. EUNIC Rabat: Culture as a Tool for External Relations - Support for Structuring Cultural

PoliciesintheMENARegionandinAfrica15. EUNICSerbia:CityandCreativity:OpenlyaboutPublicSpace16. EUNICSpain:EuropeanCinemaatSchool/Elcineeuropeovaalasaulas17. EUNICStockholm:MultilingualismVisaEurope18. EUNICThailand:EuropeanHeritageMap

Year3

1. EUNICBrazil:EUROPEWEEKINBRAZIL20152. EUNICBucharest:UkraineandMoldova-NeighboursinFocus(EuropeanFilmFestival)3. EUNICCanada:EuropeAroundtheWor(l)d 4. EUNICIndia:EuropeanandIndianWomenofLiteratureinDialogue-IsEuropeanWomen

MovementRelevanttoIndiaMovements5. EUNICPalestine:EuropeansWavesofMusicattheSeaFestival-Gaza 6. EUNICPhilippines:CartooningforPeaceinthePhilippines 7. EUNIC South Africa: EUNIC Lab on convening new audiences. Curatorial Project and

Seminar:EngagingwiththeYouthandDevelopingNewAudiencesandCuratorialSkillswithGalleries,MuseumsandArtSpacesinSouthAfrica"

8. EUNIC Sri Lanka: CINNAMON COLOMBOSCOPE (working title was URBAN SOUL - AnInterdisciplinaryFestival)

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9. EUNICSt.Petersburg:GreenSt.Petersburg

e) OthersourcesInformalmeetingwithConchaFernándezde laPuente,Counsellor,SectionPolicy,EconomyandCommunication,EUDelegationinBrazil(Brussels,February2016).Consultationwith EUNIC focal points and strategists at the EUNICAcademy (Nancy, 12-13May2016).ConsultationwithHeadsattheEUNICGeneralAssembly(Copenhagen,8-9June2016).

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AnnexI:ObjectivesandexpectedresultsoftheClusterFund(2012-2015)

ObjectivesofClusterFund

- To design and implement EUNIC strategic topics (Culture in External Relations,

Multilingualism).

- Tostimulateclusteraction(therecipientandprojectleadertobeidentified).

- Toenhanceinter-clustercooperation.

- TopresentEUNICasglobalmultilateralplayer.

- Tomakethecaseofimportanceofcultureinexternalrelations.

Expectedresults

- DevelopmentofEUNICvisibilityofjointactiontopartnersandinterlocutors.

- Reachingtowideraudiencesanddifferentlayersofsociety.

- InformingaboutEUNICactionintheThirdcountries.

- Pavingthewayforfuturecollaborationsandsponsorships

- Designingnewformatstobesharedacrossthenetwork.

- Strengthening relationshipwith local communities and the position on the local cultural

scene.

- Positioningcultureasindispensabletoolofexternalrelations.

- PromotionoffundamentalEuropeanvaluesandmultilingualisminsideandoutsideofEU.

- ConsolidationandprofessionalizationofEUNICclustersbenefitingfromtheFund.

- Contributing togood imageofEurope incountrieswithambivalentattitude towards the

EU.

- CapacitybuildingforthewholeEUNICnetwork.

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AnnexII:Classificationoftheawardedprojects

Year Nameofproject Cluster Mainfocus

Year1

2ndEUNICWEEKinVienna EUNICAustria Events,showcasing

HowtobuildanEuropeanproject-Trainingfor

EUNICstaffEUNICBrussels Internalcapacity-building

EUandcreativeindustries EUNICChina Events,publication

ArtEnergy:creativevisionsofnatureand

technologiesEUNICCroatia Events,showcasing

Diplomainculturalmanagement-feasibility

study/MENAregionEUNICEgypt

Research

Debateproject"ContactPoint-Culture"on

culturaldiplomacyinachangingworldEUNICEstonia Events,showcasing

LiteratureNightinTbilisi EUNICGeorgia Events,showcasing

EuropeanLanguagesCocktailBar-Promoting

Multilingualism-competitionEUNICHungary Events,showcasing

SightsandsoundsofEurope EUNICJordan Events,showcasing

Gesturesofreturn:aculturalprogramme

examiningquestionsaroundPalestinian

displacement-Cultureandcreativeindustriesin

Palestine

EUNICPalestine Events

EuropeanDayoflanguages+Trainingfor

teachersEUNICTurkey

Events,showcasing+Internal

capacity-building

EuropeanCreativePlacemakinginBaltimoreEUNICWashington

DCMeetings,others

Year2

EuropeanDayofLanguages EUNICAlmaty Events,showcasing

ArtsforSocialDevelopment EUNICAthens Events

EuropeWeekinBrazil2014 EUNICBrazil Events,showcasing

TrainingonEUProjectDevelopment EUNICBrussels Internalcapacity-building

EuropeanComicsFestivalinBucharest EUNICBucharest Events,showcasing

FiLiC2014 EUNICCordoba Artistresidency,meetings

UpgradingtheRawabetSpace,DowntownCairo EUNICEgypt Purchaseofequipment

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FeasibilityStudyforaEuropeanCulturalCentrein

AmmanEUNICJordan Research

PLAYPUBLIK2014-InternationalFestivalof

GamesinPublicSpaceEUNICKrakow Events,showcasing

EuropeanSoundandAudiovisualArtsExhibitions

SKAN2EUNICLatvia Events,showcasing

SursumLinguae

EUNICLondon,

Brussels,Rabat,

Casablanca

Training

"TwoMinutesforEurope!"–EUNICCompetition

2014EUNICLyon Events

EuropeanFocusonYouthLiteratureandComics-

ProfessionalizationofthePalestinian

InternationalBookFair

EUNICPalestine Events,showcasing

CultureasaToolforExternalRelations-Support

forStructuring

CulturalPoliciesintheMENARegionandinAfrica

EUNICRabat Research

CityandCreativity:OpenlyaboutPublic

SpaceEUNICSerbia Events

EuropeanCinemaatSchool/Elcineeuropeovaa

lasaulasEUNICSpain Training

MultilingualismVisaEurope EUNICStockholm Training

EuropeanHeritageMap EUNICThailandICTtooldevelopment,

internalcapacitybuilding

Year3

EuropeWeekinBrazil2015 EUNICBrazil Events,showcasing

UkraineandMoldova-NeighboursinFocus

(EuropeanFilmFestival)EUNICBucharest Events,showcasing

EuropeAroundtheWor(l)d EUNICCanada Events,showcasing

CrossBorderConversations:

EuropeanandIndianWomenWritersEUNICIndia Events

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EuropeansWavesofMusicattheSeaFestival-

GazaEUNICPalestine Training

CartooningforPeaceinthePhilippines EUNICPhilippines Events

EUNICLabonconveningnewaudiences EUNICSouthAfrica Training

CinnamonColomboscope EUNICSriLanka Events

GreenSt.PetersburgEUNICSt.

PetersburgEvents

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AnnexIII:Summaryoftheprojectsco-financedbytheClusterFund(2012-

2015)27

ClusterFundYear1(2012-2013)

2ndEUNICWEEKinVienna EUNICAustria Austria

Description BuildingonthesuccessofthefirstEUNICWeekinViennainOctober2012,EUNIC

Austriawanted tomake itwell-knownas the annual festival of the cluster. The

EUNICWeek was composed of three main activities: Coffee Day, with tandem

readings in several coffeehouses inVienna;guided toursonEuropeanplaces in

Vienna to raise awareness of public places connected to the countries of the

clustermembers; and a school competition. During theweek, individual events

from cluster members were also held, constituting a series called “labelized

programmes”. The project had also foreseen that the exhibitions from cluster

members would join the ORF- Long Night of Museums in Vienna. The support

fromtheClusterFundwasusedtoconfirmandexpandthereachoftheproject.

Partners Foreign ministry of Vienna, City of Vienna, Ministry of Culture, European

Commission Representation, Fachverband der Wiener Kaffeehäuser (Vienna

CoffeeHouseAssociation /ChamberofCommerceVienna), local coffeehouses,

culturalinstitutionsandvenues,ORF–LongNightofMuseumsinVienna.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 7,000 Totalbudget(Euro) N/A

Reportingafterprojectcompletion Yes Formalevaluation No

HowtobuildanEuropeanproject-TrainingforEUNICstaff EUNICBrussels Belgium

Description A three-day seminarwasorganised to introduce staffofEUNICmembers to the

worldofEU-fundedprojects in the fieldofculture,engage them in futureones,

and build their capacity to inform and encourage potential partners. The 35

participantsattendingtheeventrepresented14EUNICmembersandcamefrom

20 countries, both inside and outside the EU. The training included several

27 The information contained in the project descriptions in this section was mostly extracted from the

evaluationand/orapplicationformssubmittedbyclusters.

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sessions on different topics among which EUNIC, EU policies on culture, the

CreativeEuropeProgrammeandthePreparatoryActiononCultureinEUExternal

Relations.Thetrainingalsogaveparticipantsthepossibilitytocreatenewcontacts

anddiscussideasofpotentialprojectproposals.

Partners EUNICGlobal,EUInstitutions,culturalstakeholdersinBrussels.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 8,747.51 Totalbudget(Euro) 8,235.23

Reportingafterprojectcompletion Yes Formalevaluation Yes

EUandcreativeindustries EUNICChina China

Description In 2012, EUNIC China carried out a number of joint academic activities with

selected, high-level Chinese partners (nationwide festivals or state-run

institutions),inwhichEuropeanexpertswouldelaborateonagivensubjectwithin

a topic that is relevant for the field of creative industries in both Europe and

China. During these activities, EUNIC discovered a profound need for a

strengthened,writtencommunicationwhichwouldallowparticipants fromboth

sides not only to get acquainted with each other but also to understand the

profoundsemioticandsemanticdifferencesinthetermsandlanguagethateither

sidewoulduse(whetherinterpretedornot).

In 2013, the cluster submitted a successful Cluster Fund application to produce

lasting and accessible booklets for a similar series of 6-8 academicworkshops /

seminars on specific issues within the field of creative industries(cultural

management and creative innovation, children education, literature and

publishing,newmediaandinteractivedesign,experimentaltheatre,documentary

film, architecture and urban space, cartoons), to boost them with a specific

European dimension. The idea was that the booklets would serve as a useful

communicationpriortotheactivity,asahandyguideduringtheactivity,andasa

mementoonEUNIC’sactivitiesinChinaforEuropeanandlocalstakeholders.

Foreseen contentof thebooklets: programmeof the event, introduction to the

topic, political priorities from both sides, speakers / experts involved and their

interventions,dictionarywithathoroughdescriptionandinterpretation(English/

Chinese)ofthe50mainwords/termsgenerallyusedwithinthisspecifictopic.

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Partners InstituteforCulturalIndustries,Beijing;ShanghaiWomen’sFederation,Shanghai;

China International Book Fair, Beijing; Chinese Museum of Digital Art, Beijing;

ShanghaiTheatreAcademy,Shanghai;SichuanTVandDocumentaryFilmFestival,

Chengdu; Shenzhen Biennale on Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen; Central

AcademyofFineArts,Beijing;ShaanxiAcademyofArts,Xi’an;ChinaAcademyof

Arts,Hangzhou.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 10,000 Totalbudget(Euro) Estimated78,000

Reportingafterprojectcompletion No Formalevaluation No

ArtEnergy:creativevisionsofnatureandtechnologies EUNICCroatia Croatia

Description On the occasion of Croatia joining the European Union on 1 July 2013, the

ArtEnergyprojectwasdesignedtoshowcasetheinspiringroleofculturetowards

a more ecological behaviour, stimulate intercultural and interdisciplinary

exchange and collaboration, and promote culture, creativity and ecology as

fundamentalandvitalvaluesintheEuropeanUnion.

Theprojectwascomposedofaseriesofevents:anopening“sustainable”concert

(carriedoutwithgreenenergy),anopenairexhibitionwithinstallationsbyartists

from European countries, talks with European artists and scientists, as well as

interactiveworkshops.Theactivitiesaimed to showtheEuropean ideaofdoing

things together towardssharedgoals.After theproject, local schools "adopted"

the resulting sustainable art installations tomonitor how nature interacts with

them.Theprojectwaslaunchedonedaybeforetheaccessionandonlyfewdays

aftertheadoptionof7thEnvironmentActionProgramme‘Livingwell,withinthe

limits of our planet’. It drew the attentionof theMinistry of Cultureof Croatia

whichasked toparticipate in theEUNIC cluster inCroatia through theHrvatska

Kuca–CroatianHouse.

Partners CityCenterforCultureMaksimir(CentarzaKulturuIinformacijeMaksimir),

LaboratorioAlchemico,geh8KustraumundAteliers(geh8artspaceandstudios).



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Diplomainculturalmanagement-feasibilitystudyinthe

MENAregion

EUNICEgypt Egypt

Description One of the outputs of the Euromed Forum on Creative Industries & Society

(Jordan, May 2012) was a concept note detailing a long-term EUNIC MENA

project supporting the creative sector in the MENA region. One of the key

objectives was to support capacity-building and the professionalisation of the

creativesector.Amongthecommunityofdonorsandinternationalplayersinthe

culturalfield intheregion,culturalmanagementhadrepeatedlybeenidentified

asoneofthemainareasforintervention.

TheresearchreportwasafeasibilitystudyforaCulturalManagementDiplomain

theMENAregion. Itwas intendedtocoverthefollowingareas:existingcultural

managementtrainingintheregionandbeyond,prospectivebeneficiariesofsuch

adiploma,potentialpartnerships tomake thishappen,possiblecurriculumand

instructors, suitable methodologies of instruction and practical training,

possibilities of academic accreditation from international universities,

infrastructure needed for financial sustainability, how the diploma programme

could intersectwith the labourmarket, implementationplan.At the timewhen

theclusterreportedontheprojectthroughtheevaluationform,thecompletion

of the study had been delayed due to scheduling problems and advice against

travel to Egypt andMorocco. The project had however been presented to the

EgyptianMinisterofCultureandtheUndersecretaryofStateforForeignCultural

RelationsaswellastoallEUCulturalCounsellorsduringtheirregularmeetings.A

policy workshop was also foreseen to present the findings. The final research

report included recommendations on programme content and format,

partnerships, teaching methods, and programme implementation and

scholarships.

Partners AlMawredAlThaqafy.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 10,000 Totalbudget(Euro) 32,310


Further

information

http://www.eunic-online.eu/?q=content/pan-arab-diploma-cultural-

management

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Debateproject"ContactPoint-Culture"on

culturaldiplomacyinachangingworld

EUNICEstonia Estonia

Description Inspiredbythe12-monthdebatecampaignbyMoreEuropein2012,thecluster

developed a series of seven public debates about "Cultural diplomacy in the

changingworld-challengesandtheinvolvementofcitizens”.Eachofthedebates

was hosted by a cluster member and included a main lecture by a specialist

invited by each EUNIC cluster member individually. The lecture was then

followedbyadiscussion.

Topics dealt with: Cultural collaboration and sustainability; Back to the future:

timetolookahead;Borderlandofarts,culturesandnations;Culturalcompetition

between European states;Whywe need a Roma cultural diplomacy;Overview

about the current situation of the Romaminorities in the countries of Central

Europe; presentationof the studies, titled “First European Surveyon Language

Competences” and “Language Rich Europe. Multilingualism for Stable and

Prosperous Societies”; The New Atlantis: the geometry of liberty (on

multiculturalism and European identity as well as the European myth and

history).

The aim of the debate clubwas to foster discussion among people and in the

mediaon thepossibility of using cultural diplomacy to ease the tensions rising

fromthemeetingofdifferentcultures.

Partners European Commission Representation, Estonian Students Society, Tallinn

University,TallinnUniversityofTechnology,EstonianInstitute.



EuropeanLiteratureNightinTbilisi EUNICGeorgia Georgia

Description Theprojectcombinedtwocomplementaryevents:theEuropeanLiteratureNight,

thefirstpubliceventinTbilisidedicatedtotheliteraturefromdifferentEuropean

countries,andtheEuropeanDayoflanguages.Themainpurposewastoexpose

Georgian students, writers, translators to different aspects of contemporary

literatureintheoriginallanguageaswellasinGeorgian.

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Thecelebrationforeseenincludedthefollowingactivities:

- European writers would read short texts in their languages and Georgian

actorswouldreadtheminGeorgian;

- YoungGeorgianwriterswereaskedtowriteshorttextsonthesametopics

dealtwithbythetextsfromEuropeanauthors;

- ThetextsbyyoungGeorgianwriterswouldthenbereadinbothlanguages.

- European writers would be invited to write a short text or poem about

Tbilisi,tobereadattheeventandthenpublished.

Partners Writer's House in Georgia, Department of literature ofMinistry of Culture and

Heritage, Museum of Literature, Department of foreign languages Tbilisi

Universities.



EuropeanLanguagesCocktailBar-Promoting

Multilingualism-competition

EUNICHungary Hungary

Description BuildingonarecurrenteventinitiallydesignedbytheBritishCouncilandannually

organised by the cluster over three years (2010-2012) on the occasion of the

EuropeanDayofLanguages, theprojectconsistedofaCocktailBarcovering16

different languages (German, English, Hebrew, Czech, Romanian, Slovenian,

Estonian, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Portuguese, Danish,

Spanish,French,Polish).Itsupportedstudentstomakeinformeddecisionsonthe

languagestheywantedtolearninthefutureaswellasallowedthe21organisers

of the event to inform the public about their work in the field of language

teachingandculturalrelationsinanattractive,funandcreativeway.

The Language Cocktail Bar was complemented with a website; online actions

includedanonlinequizwithquestionsrelatedtothecountriesofthe21cultural

institutions organising the event and a poster competition for students and

adults around the themes of “earning languages can be fun and entertaining”

and “multilingualism and cultural diversity are attractive and interesting”.

Teaching material was produced and sent to all Hungarian schools with the

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support of theMinistry in order to facilitate theparticipationof both students

andteachersinthecompetition.Theonlinegamesallowedtheclustertocollect

asetofover2,000e-mailaddressesofindividualsthatwouldbefurtherreached

bythecluster.

Partners Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary (including the sub-Ministries of

Education and Cultures and Minority Rights), European Commission

Representation, Japan Foundation, Israeli Cultural Institute, Confucius,National

Institutionofthedeafandhardhearing,ResearchCentreforMultilingualism.



SightsandsoundsofEurope EUNICJordan Jordan

Description The European Day of Languages (EDL) 2013 was the fourth edition of this

celebrationinJordan.Inacountrywherethemajorityofthepopulationisunder

30, an important target group for this event focusing on multilingualism was

schoolchildren.Otherrelevanttargetgroupswerestudents in languagecourses

at the five participating cultural institutes, and the general public. The project

activitiesincluded:

- Aschoolprogrammewithan interactivequizonEuropeanculture,history,

language, politics, and the special cooperation between EU countries. The

quiztookplaceoverthetendayscountingdowntotheEDLandreached9

schools.ItwasanadditiontotheELSprogrammeorganisedin2012.

- Activitiesorganisedbythefivecultural institutionsintheformofajourney

tothesightsandsoundsofEurope,eachinstitutionprovidingastamponthe

participants’'languagepassport'.

- AneveningconcertontheopeningofEuropeanDayofLanguagesAnother

aspect of the project was to show the population that the Cultural

Institutionsarenotcompetingwitheachother,butarecollaborating.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 7,000 Totalbudget(Euro) Estimated16,194.06


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Gesturesofreturn:aculturalprogramexamining

questionsaroundPalestiniandisplacement-

CultureandcreativeindustriesinPalestine

EUNICPalestine Palestine

Description Gestures of return was the first curated project developed by the new cluster

EUNICPalestine.Itwasintendedtolaunchaninformalbutin-depthdialogueon

key issues chosen by the Palestinians in the field of culture; to advocate the

importance of the creative sector towards the public sector in terms of

development and income potential; to give an opportunity for possible

cooperation and collective creation; to present and/or enhance visibility of the

recently created EUNIC cluster; and finally to allow an open dialogue between

EuropeanandPalestinians,butalsointer-Palestiniandialogue.

The cluster invited a Palestinian curator to design a programme of discussions

thatwould provide a space for interaction between Palestinian cultural actors,

cultural institutions, researchers and students as well as between these and

European specialists. The event was composed of two main sessions that

examined issuesof “representation”and “intervention” in relation toEuropean

aid and development discourses and the question of Palestinian refugees.

Speakers from France, Italy, the UK and Palestine (including Palestinians with

Israelicitizenship)cametogether.

Throughthisactivity,theclusterappearedforthefirsttimeasfullorganiserofa

cultural initiative (rather than as a partner) and worked on culture with

communitiesthatarenotoftenreached(refugeescamps).



EuropeanDayoflanguages+Trainingforteachers EUNICTurkey Turkey

Description Buildingonthe2012EuropeanDayofLanguages(EDL)inIstanbulandtheevents

on multilingualism within the EUNIC Turkey “Art in Movement” project in

SoutheasternTurkey,theEDL2013aimedtoincreasethevisibilityofthisissuein

Turkey.TheprojectinitiallyappliedforsupportfromtheClusterFundtoorganise

a one-day common training in didactic and use of multimedia for teachers of

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EuropeanLanguageswithintheclusteranditspartnerswithintheframeoftheEDL

2013. The evaluation form, however, reports on different project activities

organisedinthe3majorcitiesofthecountry(Istanbul,AnkaraandIzmir):mini-

lessons,games,filmsandconferences,concerts,opendoors,foodandatraining

on ICT for language teaching aswell as on InteractiveWhite Board for French,

Italian,GermanandGreekteachers.

Partners CarloGoldoniAssociation,ConceptLanguages(Turkishlanguage).

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 5,000 Totalbudget(Euro) Estimated9,950(training)


EuropeanCreativePlacemakinginBaltimore EUNICWashingtonD.C. USA

Description Formorethantwodecades,therevitalisationofurbandecayedareashadbeena

major issue of civil society engagement in Baltimore. This process received the

nameofCreativeplacemaking. EUNICWashingtonDChadgained support from

theEUprogramme“GettingtoKnowEuropeBetter2013/2014” fora residency

programme for European artists to participate in Baltimore’s Creative

Placemaking activities in three particular districts -the so-called Arts &

EntertainmentDistricts.

Theclusterpartnersconsidereditanimportantpreconditionforthecooperation

to take place on an equal footing with Baltimore partners, in order to enable

themtogainfirst-handinsightsintotheworkofEuropeancities-someofwhich

European Capitals of Culture. The Cluster Fund support was intended to allow

three individuals from Baltimore’s relevant organisations within the Arts &

Entertainment Districts to meet with representatives of European Capitals of

CultureorotherEuropeancities thathaddealtwith similar challenges to those

facedbyBaltimore’sArtsandEntertainmentDistricts.TheClusterFundgrantwas

expected to serve as seed money for additional commitment by the City of

Baltimore.

Partners Flandershouse,USA-Spainfoundation,BaltimoreOfficeofPromotion&theArts;

MarylandInstituteCollegeofArts;SoutheastCommunityDevelopment

Corporation;StationNorthArts&EntertainmentDistrict.

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ClusterFundgrant(Euro) 7,000 Totalbudget(Euro) N/A


Furtherinformation http://europeinbaltimore.org/project/


EuropeanDayofLanguages EUNICAlmaty Kazakhstan

Description EUNIC Almaty has been organising the European Day of Languages since 2011

with a view to providing the locals with the information on current linguistic

mosaicinEuropeaswellaspromotingmultilingualism.Themainaimofthedayis

to show how important but also fun it is to learn European languages. The

projectwasstructuredaroundtwomainevents:theEuropeanDayofLanguages,

which include games, quizzes and raffles to show European linguistic diversity

andencourage locals to learndifferent European languages; and the European

AnimationFilmWeek,tostimulatefurtherinteresttolearnforeignlanguagesby

showingallfilmsinoriginalversionwithRussiansubtitles.

The cluster reported that the project had contributed to the EU-Kazakhstan

PartnershipinCultureandEducationbyactingasaculturaldiplomacyagentasit

had provided the locals with relevant information concerning the cultural and

linguistic situation in Europewhich led to strengthened intercultural dialogues.

The target groupsof theproject included local pupils, students, academic staff

and others. The initial project application mentioned a seminar for foreign

languageteachersasanextstep.

Partners CinemaArman,KazakhUniversityofInternationalRelationsandWorld

Languages,RTSDecaux,Localcityauthorities–CityHall.



ArtsforSocialDevelopment EUNICAthens Greece

Description Theaimoftheprogrammewastoexplorehowtheartsandartisticcreativitycan

beusedforhuman,socialandeconomicprogressandtobringtogetherartists,

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creative professionals and arts organisations with non-governmental

organisations (NGOs), community leaders and social entrepreneurs in order to

share skills and knowledge, learn fromeachother, andwork collaboratively to

createpilotactivitiesforurbandevelopment.

A series of workshops, events and activities focused on three axes (Arts and

Social Inclusion, Arts and Social Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries and

local development) took place in Athens between April and November 2014.

Theyexploredhowartsandculturalprojectscanactasadriverforsocialchange:

- SeminarandworkshoponRefugeesandMigrants inGreece,whichexplored

the use of video and literature respectively, in tackling issues related to

ethnicity,migrationandsocialintegration.

- Workshop “Create for change”, which presented case studies and explored

ideasthathighlightedtheroleofcreativeindustriesasanewsourceofgrowth

andsocialdevelopment.

- Performance “Banpotikon”. Dancers, mainly migrants living in Athens and

havingexperienceddailyproblemsof exclusion,discriminationandviolence,

expressedthisonstagetogetherwithGreekdancers.

- TalkabouttheRomanianImmigrationinGreece,whichexploredtheissueof

social inclusion andwas accompaniedby a theatrical playperformedby the

RomanianDiasporaProfessionalTheatreStudio.

- Workshop“PantoneGreenandaglassofLemonade”.Itwasalsoatemporary

sculpturalwork that aimed to provide a spacewhere possible strategies for

building and reconsidering the representation of objects were explored. It

involvedthelocalcommunityofKypseli,anon-soprivilegedneighbourhoodin

the centre of Athens and explored different behavioural processes within

society.

- Concludingconferencetoshareandpresenttheresultsoftheproject.

The project brought together art professionals, policy-makers, educators,

academicsandstakeholdersandhighlightedthevalueofinteractionsandcross-

sector collaboration. The workshops involved migrants and ethnic minority

communities, localcommunities,youngprofessionalsanddisadvantagedgroups

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in the city of Athens and, as reported by the cluster, contributed to better

cohesion and empowered community groups. The programme also generated

innovative ideas for future projects and collaborations which the cluster was

planningtodistributetolocalandinternationalnetworks.

TheprojectwasinlinewithsomeoftheprioritiesoftheEU,localauthoritiesand

Greek EU presidency agenda such as social inclusion, culture as a vehicle for

social development, opportunities for youth and capacity building in social

entrepreneurshipandcreativeindustries.

Partners 5thInternationalKinitirasChoreographyLab,GreekMinistryofForeignAffairs.



EuropeWeekinBrazil2014 EUNICBrazil Brazil

Description TheprojectstartedasaEuropeDayin2004(evenbeforeEUNICwascreated)

andhasgrownovertheyearstobecometheflagshipprojectoftheclusterand

oneofthetraditionalculturaleventsofBrazil'scapitalcity.Itservestopresent

therichnessanddiversityofEuropeancultureandasaplatformfordialogue

withBraziliancivilsocietyaboutrelevantEUtopics.

The10theditionoftheEuropeWeektookplacebetween30Apriland25May

2014, with a total of 14 events taking place in several cities: European film

festivals, two symphonic concerts, jazz concerts, running competition, bazar,

culinaryweek.Itsmainactivitiestookplacein3cities(Brasilia,RiodeJaneiro

andCuritiba). The EuropeWeekofBrazil tookplaceprior to the FIFAWorld

CuphostedbyBrazil in2014,thereforethethemechosenforthecelebration

was“SportandCulture”asanhomagetothesportcompetition.

Partners EU Delegation to Brazil as co-organiser (it had a Public Diplomacy Strategy

which includedcooperationwithEUNICandsupportingEuropeWeekamong

thepriorities),localculturalpartners,localgovernments.



Furtherinformation http://www.semanadaeuropa.org/.

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TrainingonEUProjectDevelopment EUNICBrussels Belgium

Description Building on the previous training on EU funding in the field of culture (Cluster

Fund2012/2013),a second trainingwas foreseenasa follow-upwithaviewto

submitting aprojectproposal to theCreativeEuropeProgrammecall closing in

October 2014. The training was also intended to contribute to the

professionalisation of and networking among EUNIC members’ staff. The

applicationsubmittedtotheClusterFundincluded:

- Acallforprojectideas(someofwhichstemmingfromtheprevioustraining)

withthesupportofEUNICGlobal;

- Evaluationofproject ideasandselectionof2-3project ideasbyEUfunding

expert;

- A 2-day proposal-writing training session for the participants that had

proposedthe2-3projectideasselected;

- Thefinalisationoftheapplicationbytheparticipantswithsomesupervision

fromtheEUfundingexperts.

Partners EUNICGlobal



EuropeanComicsFestivalinBucharest EUNICBucharest Romania

Description TheEuropeanComicsFestivalinBucharestaimsatpromotingmultilingualismand

the diversity of cultural products and artistic expressions, at supporting the

creative industries in Romania, and at contributing to the strengthening of the

EUNICBucharestClusteractionanditsvisibility.Initiatedbytheclusterin2010,it

has becomea recurrent eventwith its fourth edition in 2014 receiving support

fromtheClusterFund.

The festival includes exhibitions; workshops, presentations, and thematic

roundtablediscussionswithEuropeanandRomanianauthors;stands;screenings;

andafinalpublicationintheformofabrochure.Thetargetaudiencerangesfrom

young Romanian professionals (artists,writers) to local publishers interested in

promoting comic stripsasa cultural andeducationalproduct, from institutions,

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schools and teachers interested in using comics strips as a pedagogical tool to

artistsandprofessionalsfromtheEuropeancountriesparticipatingintheeventto

thegeneralpublic.

Sincethebeginningoftheinitiative, localpartnershaveplayedakeyroleinthe

organisation of the festival. For the 2014 edition, the organisers of the event

intendedtoincreasethenumberofclustermembersparticipatinginit.

Partners National Museum of Contemporary Art, local publishing houses specialised in

comicstrips(MMEurope,Vellant,Art,JumatateaPlina);localassociationsinthe

field of comics;bookstores from Bucharest selling comic strips; “the Comics

Museum” project; national and local authorities (Ministry of Education,

Department for culture and education at the CityHall, etc.);University of Arts,

Facultyofforeignlanguages,highschoolsandschools;mediapartners.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 7,500 Totalbudget(Euro) N/A


FiLiC2014 EUNICCordoba Argentina

Description EstablishedbytheEUNICclusterinCordobain2011,FILiCisthefirstinternational

literaturefestivalinthiscity.Itsfirsteditionfocusedontheevolutionofliterature

inthetimeofhyperlinkwhilethesecondoneexploredliteratureasatoolcapable

ofrecreatingrealityandgrantitnewmeaningsandinterpretations.Forthethird

edition, the cluster applied for support from the Cluster Fund with a view to

inviting two European writers (German, French) to stay in Córdoba for two

months and hold a productive dialogue with local writers, editors, translators,

professors and students that would lead to a literary production which, once

finished, could be published and presented at the 2014 FILiC. This projectwas

framedwithinalong-termperspectiveoftransformingCordobaintoanimportant

nation-wide literary centre: the two Europeanwriterswere supposed to travel

fromCórdoba toother regional centresof thecountry (Chaco,Mendoza,Tierra

delFuego,BuenosAires)andfacilitategatheringsofnationalwritersthatwould

resultinthesejoiningtheinternationalfestivalprogramme.

Partners Fundacióndefomentoalalectura“MempoGiardinelli”,UniversidadNacionalde

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Cuyo,ProvinceofTierradelFuego-CultureOffice(SecretaríadeCultura),

independentPublishingcompaniesinBuenosAires,AgenciaCórdobaCultura,

UniversidadNacionaldeCórdoba,UniversidadNacionaldeVillaMaría,

UniversidadProvincial,MunicipalityofCórdoba–Cultureoffice.



Furtherinformation https://www.facebook.com/FILiCba,www.filic.com.ar

UpgradingtheRawabetSpace,DowntownCairo EUNICEgypt Egypt

Description Rawabetisagrass-rootsinitiativethatwasborninEgyptin2006.Foundedbya

groupofartiststorespondtothelackofnon-commercial,independentrehearsal

spacesforartisticperformancesandactivities,theprojectconstitutesaplatform

facilitating artists' work as well as the connections between these and the

audience. Since January 2011, Egypt was experiencing an explosion of artistic

creativityoftenresultinginEgyptianorganisationscompetingwitheachotherfor

thesupportofEuropeanculturalorganisations.Anewinitiative,duebyJanuary

2014,wasexpectedtolargelydefinetheRawabetactivitiesintheupcomingyear:

the new initiative was a programme inviting 4 independent arts and cultural

organisations/initiatives to join the Townhouse Rawabat team in creating a

CuratedWeekonceamonth.

TheEUNICclusterreceivedagrantfromtheClusterFundtoprovideapermanent

installationofaprofessionalsoundsystemandflexibleseatinginordertoallow

for multiple uses of the space. Such an investment was expected to attract

furtherinvestmentfromthelocalcommunity.

Partners Townhouse,Megawra,Cimatheque,100Copies,MadaMasr.InstitutoCervantes

andtheGreekCulturalCentrewereintheprocessofjoiningthecluster.



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FeasibilityStudyforaEuropeanCulturalCentreinAmman EUNICJordan Jordan

Description AsaconsequenceoftheArabSpring,anintensifiedcooperationbetweentheEU

and theMediterranean region became a clear goal at the political and cultural

level.AlthoughatthattimeseveralEUNICmembersandtheEUDelegationwere

already active in this area, a systematic reflection had never been done on

whetherandhowtheirworkmayoverlap,whetherpossiblesynergyeffectscould

arisefromcooperation,whetherduplicationofeffortscouldbeavoided,whether

and how the establishment of a European Cultural Center could enrich their

efforts.

Thepurposeofthefeasibilitystudywasthereforetotesttheideaofestablishing

a"EuropeanCulturalCentre"inAmman,inparticulartounderstandunderwhich

conditionsandhowitcouldaddvaluetothealreadyexistingactionsoftheEUNIC

clusterinJordanandoftheEUDelegation.

Partners EUDelegation.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 2,715 Totalbudget(Euro) Estimated3,583.50


PLAYPUBLIK2014-InternationalFestivalof

GamesinPublicSpace

EUNICKrakow Poland

Description PLAYPUBLIKisaninternationalthree-dayfestivalwhichusesthemediumofsite-

specificGAMEStodiscussthesocial,culturalandeconomicdimensionsofpublic

space.ThefestivalwasalsointendedtopromotetheunderstandingofEuropean

cultures. During the event, the city centre of Krakow was transformed into

ephemeralplaygroundsby60artists/designersfrom20differentEUNICcountries

presenting artistic (urban) games to a broadpublic aged18+.Abig part of the

games where based on an innovative use of technologies (eg. drones) and

multimedia (eg.mobile apps) that augmented the “real”world experience, but

also fostered the question of how important or even risky some of these

technologiesareormightbeforusascitizens.Theprogrammewascompletedby

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several workshops and talks. Synergies were created with other events (the

EuropeanDayofLanguages,EuropeanTranslatorsDay).

On a business-to-business level, the festival also provided an opportunity for

knowledge sharing and networking in the 3 days of preparation workshops

(Playpublik Camp), during which designers could exchange experiences, share

ideasandcomeupwithnewprojects.

Partners Invisible Playground, European Commission Representation, Bunkier Sztuki

Galery of Contemporary Art, City of Krakow, Krakow Festival Office, media

partners (Agencja OKO,Gazeta Wyborcza, Gazeta.pl, Karnet, Radio RMF F,

TelewizjaPolskaS.A./TVPKraków/TVPKultura).



Furtherinformation http://www.playpublik.de/en,goethe.de/spieltrieb

EuropeanSoundandAudiovisualArtsExhibitionsSKAN2,part

ofthe"Riga-EuropeanCapitalofCulture2014"Programme.

EUNICLatvia Latvia

Description SKAN II was conceived as the second phase of an educational collaboration

project organised in 2013 by the EUNIC cluster in Riga and the locally-based

Association for AdventurousMusic. It was the follow-up of the first sound art

exhibition(SKAN)organisedintheBalticStatesin2007aswell.TheSKANIIsound

exhibitionfocusedonaninnovativeartmovementinthe20thcenturyinEurope,

sound and audiovisual art, a dynamic and site-specific genre which combines

music,newtechnologiesandvisualart,goingbeyondtheirmerejuxtaposition.

Themainambitionoftheprojectwastopresentaccomplishedanddiversesound

and interdisciplinary artists from EUNIC Riga and European Union countries

during the Riga 2014 European Capital of Culture celebrations as well as to

encourageinterdisciplinarydialogueinart.Themainvenuefortheexhibitionwas

thecity'sBotanicalGarden,ahistoricallyinterestingarchitecturalareaforthecity

suitabletoreachawiderangeofaudiences,fromfamilieswithchildrentolocal

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neighboursandvisitorsingeneral.

Partners AssociationforAdventurousMusic,FoundationRiga2014.



Further

information

http://www.eunic-online.eu/?q=content/international-sound-art-exhibition-

skan-ii,http://www.skanumezs.lv/en/2014/riga-to-host-the-international-sound-

art-exhibition-skan-ii/

SursumLinguae EUNICLondon,Brussels,Rabat,Casablanca Morocco

Description Sursum Linguae was the result of a collaboration between four clusters. The

activities of the project took place in Casablanca and focused on promoting

multilingualismthroughlearningandteaching:

- ParticipationattheSalonInternationaldel'ÉditionetduLivredeCasablanca

2014withstands,paneldiscussions,bookpresentationsandperformances.

- OrganisationoftheRencontreFrançaisLangueÉtrangère2014inCasablanca

on new learning techniques for teaching of French language in Morocco.

Participants had the opportunity to attend various workshops and try

differentmethodsoflearningaforeignlanguageinamultilingualcontextas

Moroccois.

- Organisation of the European Day of Languages 2014, with EUNIC cluster

membersinCasablanca,theEmbassyoftheCzechRepublicinRabatandthe

AgenceUniversitairede laFrancophoniediscussinghowto teachEuropean

languages inMorocco. The conference also included the participation of a

representativeof theMoroccanMinistryofEducation.Theconferencewas

complementedbyaEuropeangastronomysampleandmusicperformance.



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"TwoMinutesforEurope!"–EUNICCompetition2014 EUNICLyon France

Description In thewider contextof theEuropeanelections2014, theEUNIC cluster in Lyon

decidedto launchacreativecompetitionforhighereducationstudents learning

one of the local languages of the cluster members (English, French, German,

Italian,PortugueseandSpanish).Underthetitle“TwominutesforEurope!”,the

competitioninvitedparticipantstosubmitatwo-minutevideoorsoundrecording

inwhich theyhad topresentan idea, aproject, aproposal, anexperienceora

request“forEurope”byusingdifferentformsofartisticexpression.

The12eligiblecontributionssubmittedforthecompetitionwerepresentedinan

evening eventwhere thewinnerswere chosenby thepublic participating in it.

The competing contributions showed different styles (reportage-interview,

dancing,drawing,fashionshow,interview,poetryandacting)and5ofthemwere

multilingual.

Partners HighereducationinstitutionsintheLyonarea,localinstitutions(administration,

culture,associations),localmedia.



EuropeanFocusonYouthLiteratureandComics-

ProfessionalisationofthePalestinianInternationalBookFair

EUNIC

Palestine

WestBankand

GazaStrip

Description In the lastdecade, thecultural scene inPalestinehadundergonean important

revival.Culturewasyetseenasanimportantfactortodevelopsociallytowardsa

new,modernPalestinianidentity.

The then newly appointed Minister of Culture was willing to launch cultural

initiatives and support the place of culture in the Palestinian Authority's

programme.

ThePalestinianInternationalBookFairwaslaunchedin2000bytheMinistryof

CultureofthePalestinianAuthorityinordertopromotereading.Theprojectby

EUNICPalestinewastoprovideEuropeaninputtothe9theditionoftheBookFair

(2014)byorganisingafocusonliteratureforyouthandcomicswiththepresence

of comicsand childrenbooks' authorsand illustrators fromEurope,workshops

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forkids,adults,andprofessionals, roundtablesand filmscreening.Theproject

proposalinitiallysubmittedtotheClusterFundalsomentionedthepossibilityof

inviting a European book fair expert that could exchange knowledge with the

team of the Palestinian International Book Fair. The project was not only

intendedtoincreasethevisibilityofEUNIContheoccasionofeventbutalsoto

support the dynamic of the new Ministry of Culture and assist in the

professionalisationofthefair.

Partners PalestinianMinistryofCulture,TamerInstituteforChild.



CultureasaToolforExternalRelations-SupportforStructuring

CulturalPoliciesintheMENARegionandinAfrica

EUNIC

Rabat

Morocco

Description The"DiagnosisandinventoryofartsandcultureinMorocco"hadbeeninitiated

inmid-2012byAssociationRacines (memberof theArterialnetworkof cultural

organizations in Africa) to make the cultural sector an important tool for

promotingdemocracyandpluralism.Atthetimeoftheapplicationsubmittedto

the Cluster Fund, the work on the project by Association Racines included 18

sectorial studies, a multidisciplinary study (education, cultural diversity,

governance, funding, rightsofartistsandcopyright,etc.)and regionalmeetings

withculturaloperators(institutional,professional,amateur,scholar,etc.)andthe

public.

TheprojectproposalbyEUNICRabatwastocontributetothisprojectthrough:

- Supporting the participation of three EU experts in a two-day workshop to

writerecommendationsforaculturalpolicyproposalinMorocco

- Promoting and disseminating the project within the framework of the

conferences"GeneralstatementsofcultureinMorocco"and"Conferenceon

Creative Industries inAfrica (bothplannedbyNovember2014)bymeansof

supporting the participation of four working pairs (each composed of a

member of the cultural sector in theMENA region and Africa as well as a

memberoftheEUNICclustersintheseareas)inbothconferencesaswellasin

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a workshop within them that would be organised by EUNIC Rabat. A 30-

minutepublicpresentationonEUNICwasalsoforeseen.

The project proposal was aligned with two priorities of the EU Delegation to

Morocco,namelytoidentifyculturalpoliciesandtostrengthenthecapacitiesof

civilsociety.

Partners AssociationRacines,Arterialnetwork,NationalLibraryofRabat.



Furtherinformation http://www.racines.ma/node/529

CityandCreativity:OpenlyaboutPublicSpace EUNICSerbia Serbia

Description Following the organisation of a series of workshops on "City and Creativity"

during theBelgradeBookFair, theclusterwas invitedbyBelgrade International

WeekofArchitecturetoparticipateinthe2014editiontoparticipate,asaguest

ofhonour,withasimilarprogramme.Theprojectincludedanumberofactivities:

anexhibitionandwalkingtours,severalworkshopsonavarietyofsubjects(urban

gardening,ethicsofUrbanArt,publicplaygrounds,citysigns)andanEUNICinfo

point.

Partners BINA(BelgradeInternationalWeekofArchitecture),EUDelegation.



EuropeanCinemaatSchool/Elcineeuropeovaalasaulas EUNICSpain Spain

Description FocusingontheuseofEuropeancinemaasatooltoreinforcetheknowledgeof

Europeanlanguagesandcultures,theprojectwasaddressedtobothteachers(to

empowerthemandreinforcetheirteachingskillsintheclassroom)andstudents.

The project was intended to organise two screenings of 6 European films in

originalversionwithSpanishsubtitles:

- First screening for teachers, followedbyaworkshopwithexperts in the

audio-visual field or in the topic of the film aswell as a culinary event

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(winetastinginrelationtothecountryoforiginofthefilm).

- Second screening for students, accompanied by their teachers, and

followedbyaworkshop.

Themethodology of the project had foreseen that the final list of films to be

screened would be selected by a specialised partner out of a list of films

suggested by the cluster. The development of educational materials for each

screeningwasalsoforeseenwithintheproject.

Partners Mucho(+)quecine,Matadero.



MultilingualismVisaEurope EUNICStockholm Sweden

Description The projectwas intended to upgrade and improve intercultural competence in

teaching strategies of European languages as second language, as well as to

promotecertificatesamongstudentsasthesetwoaspectswereseenaskeytools

inthepracticeofmultilingualism.

The project proposal included a set of activities: online communication

(newsletter and webpage); presentation of the programme and working tools

during the Swedish 'Modern Languages Olympics' and 'Europe Day 2014';

workshop/seminar bringing together teachers and experts to discuss the best

strategies and tools to update the teaching /learning of the intercultural

competenceintheEuropeanspace;exhibitionofschoolmaterialsforinnovative

practicesandbetter results; reinforcing thevalueofLanguageCertificationasa

crucialaspectoftheDayofLanguages(September2014);analysisandevaluation

oftheresults.

After the completion of the project, the cluster indicated that the actions

indended to raise the awareness of the reality of multilingualism around the

world through ‘Language Olympic Games’, ‘Day of Languages’, seminars,

conferences and debates with publishers (multilingualism and intercultural

competence books) anddidactics experts. It also reported that the project had

created a tool-kit that can be adapted to other clusters around the world to

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promotemultilingualismandinterculturalcompetence.

Partners ModernLanguagesOlympicsofSweden.



EuropeanHeritageMap EUNICThailand Thailand

Description EUNIC Thailand and the EU Delegation had developed the "European Heritage

Map of Bangkok and Ayutthaya” to highlight the common heritage between

ThailandandEurope.Themap includedatotalof65sitesofcultural,economic

andpoliticalinterestandwaspositivelywelcomed.

Buildingfurtheronthisproject,theClusterFundsupportwasusedtodevelopa

mobile app both for iOS and Android to make the history of Euro-Thai

connectionsandexchangesavailableinapracticalmobileformat(alsoextending

thereachofthemapto250sites),whileofferingusersinformationaboutcurrent

cultural activities by EU Member States’ cultural institutes and Embassies in

ThailandandcreatingopportunitiesforcommunitynetworkingaroundEuro-Thai

cultural activities. Theprojectwas targeted to youngThais as research showed

thattherehadbeenanincreaseintheuseofsocialmediaandtechnology.

Partners EUdiplomaticrepresentationsinThailand,EmbassyofDenmark,EmbassyofThe

Netherlands.



Further

information

http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/thailand/europeanheritagemap/index_en.ht

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EUROPEWEEKINBRAZIL2015 EUNICBrazil Brazil

Description The11theditionoftheEuropeWeekinBrazilwasintendedtogivemorevisibility

throughoutthecountrytotheproject,EUNICBrazilandtheEUDelegation;show

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thediversityof Europeancultures; and connect to theBrazilianpublic, creating

linksandrelationshipsthatwouldcontinuebeyondtheWeek.

Forthefirsttime,activitiestookplace in10Braziliancapitalcitiesdistributed in

almostallthenationalterritory,fromFlorianopolistoManaus,passingbyBrasília,

São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Vitoria, Christmas, Aracaju and Belém. In2015, Brazil represented a unique opportunity for spreading awareness andknowledge of European identity and culture. Interest was rapidly growing,

especially among the younger sections of society. There was a very strong

demand for cultural and social events following the FIFA World Cup and just

aheadoftheOlympicGames.

Thecelebration,composedof24eventscarriedoutduring2months(3May-30

June2015)andcoincidingwiththeEuropeDayinMay,includedamongothers:7

concerts, 11 FilmFestivals, 5 conferencesand seminars, an inaugurationwitha

concertandanexhibition,abazarwithstandsandmusic,arunningrace,Europe

OpenDoorsmixofevents,films,culinaryworkshops,readingsessions,tales,craft

workshops, exhibitions... Four of the participating institutes organised "walking

routes" and visitors that went to all 4 institutions received stamps in their

"Europeanpassport",allowingthemtocompeteforprizes.

The targetgroupof theprojectwas theBrazilianpublic ingeneral,with special

attention toyouth.Eachyear theevent focusesonadifferent theme; this year

being"DevelopmentandCitizenship".

Partners 47partners,includingtheEUDelegationtoBrazil,embassies,localgovernments,

localculturalandleisurepartners(cafes,cinemavenues,etc.).



Furtherinformation http://www.semanadaeuropa.org/

UkraineandMoldova-NeighboursinFocus

(EuropeanFilmFestival)

EUNICBucharest Romania

Description TheEuropeanFilmFestivalinBucharestisoneoftheoldestandmostprestigious

initiativesof thisgenre inRomania.Everyyear, itpresents themost interesting

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productions of the European cinematography. For its 19th edition, the festival

focusedonUkraineandMoldovawiththesupportoftheClusterFund.Screenings

of Ukrainian andMoldovan productions and co-productions in Bucharest were

complemented with screenings of European productions in Ukraine and the

RepublicofMoldova.Apaneldiscussiononfilmproductionwasalsoorganised.

AnotherambitionoftheprojectwastopavethewaytothecreationofaEUNIC

clusterintheRepublicofMoldova.

Partners EuropeanCommissionRepresentation,UNDP,UNATC,AllAboutRomanian

Cinema,RomanianUnionofFilmmakers,others.



Furtherinformation http://aarc.ro/articol/ffe-2015-productia-si-co-productia-de-film-in-

europa;

EuropeAroundtheWor(l)d EUNICCanada Canada

Description The project is inspired from the initiative Lisez l’Europe which brings together

literature fromdifferentEuropeancountriesandfacilitates interactionbetween

readers, authors, and publishers in Quebec. For 2015, the members of Lisez

l’EuropedecidedtouseanewapproachtopromoteEuropeanculturethrougha

new project linking European literature to performing arts. The theme chosen

was “cultural identity”: Canada has been historically considered as a model

country for people dealing with complex and ethical issues such as diversity,

humanrightsandmulticulturalism;throughoutthe20thcenturymanyEuropeans

left Europe and settled in Canada therefore the country could be imagined as

having European roots. The project also intended to offer newways to “feel”

Europeanbycreatingameetingplacefor literaryandperformanceactivities,to

promoteawarenessoftherichandcomplexEuropeanrealitiesandvaluesacross

theCanadianterritory.

Europe Around the Wor(l)d was a series of events and activities towards an

interactive literary experience. Four European writers (from France, Germany,

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Italy, Portugal)were invited andheldworkshops, interviews/encounters, and a

"Literary happy hour" which presented them in a non-conventional public

interviewandreading.TheprojectincludedaworkshopbasedonEuropeanfairy

tales, where children could listen to traditional European fairy tales and then

createtheirownones.

Partners Blue Metropolis Foundation, Gallimard Official Bookstore of Montreal,

performancehall“LaVitrola”,RamonLlullInstituteofNewYork.



CrossBorderConversations:EuropeanandIndian

WomenWriters

EUNICIndia India

Description Aone-dayevent connecting8 femalewriters from theEUwith5 counterparts

India.Itusedconversationanddialoguetoinitiateadiscussiononwomen,their

lives, their histories and how they hope to move forward in the world. The

writers were organised in three panels: Travelling Women: The New Global

Citizens; Pop Culture and Feminism in New Media; and Writing in the 21st

Century:The“RenaissanceWoman”.They stressed thedifficulties thatwomen

stillfaceinIndiaandEuropetoassertthemselves;successstoriesfromEuropean

authors were examined and taken into consideration. Targeted to writers,

opinionsmakers,womeninacademiaandyoungwomeningeneral,theproject

was very positively welcomed and the organisers requested to hold a second

editionofitthefollowingyear.

Partners IndiaInternationalCentre,Zubaanindependentpublishinghouse.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) 10,360 Totalbudget(Euro) 10360.34


Further

information

https://www.britishcouncil.in/sites/default/files/cross-border_conversations_-

_session_details.pdf;http://www.ifindia.in/content/cross-border-conversations-

european-and-indian-women-writers

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EuropeansWavesofMusicattheSeaFestival-Gaza EUNICPalestine Palestine

Description InthelightofdevelopingaculturalinfrastructureinGaza,theSeaandFreedom

Festival organized by the Gaza Music School of the Edward Said National

ConservatoryofMusicisthefirstofitskind.Theoriginalideaoftheclusterwas

to support the festival with the participation of European artists. Given the

security situationwhichdidnotallow for themovementof foreigners toGaza,

the project wasmodified and a programme of workshops with European and

localexpertswasorganisedformusicteachersandfestival/schoolmanagers(22-

60 years old) in Gaza. The aim was to improve their teaching and managing

techniquesaswell asallow themtonetworkwithcolleagues in theWestbank.

The project also supported the festival’s infrastructure and organisation,

includingfourconcertswithlocalmusicians.

The workshops delivered focused on the fields of musical and instrumental

pedagogical teaching;choir leadingandconductingofEuropeanmusicalbodies

(Orchestra or Choir); management of European structured orchestras and

ensembles; andmanagementofacoustics in concerthalls.Overall,participants

to the workshops have direct contact with up to 1000 music students in

Ramallah,Jerusalem,Bethlehem,NablusandGaza,andwereexpectedtoactas

multipliers.Oneoftheparticipantsintheworkshopreceivedtheinvitationtodo

aninternshipinGermanywithoneoftheEuropeantrainers.

Partners EUMissioninJerusalem,SwedishInternationalDevelopmentAgency,Palestinian

MinistryofCulture,UnitedPalestinianAppeal,PalestinianRedCrescentSociety,

JawwalandtheBankofPalestine.



CartooningforPeaceinthePhilippines EUNICPhilippines Philippines

Description Established in 2006, Cartooning for Peace is an international network of press

cartoonists. Cartooning for Peace in the Philippines took place at a crucial

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moment in the political life of the country concerning the peace process to

resolvealong-standingdisputeinthesouthernislandofMindanao.

The project invited 5 European cartoonists to the Philippines, and 6 Philippian

cartooniststofacilitateinteractionsbetweenthem,journalists,academiaandthe

generalpublicinthePhilippineswithaviewtopromotingpeace,mediafreedom

andresponsible journalism.Differentactivitieswereorganisedamongwhichan

exhibition,workshopswithstudents,a“Cartooningforpeace”forum,animations

ofcartoons,andthepublicationofcartooneditorialsbyEUguestcartoonists in

localjournals.

Partners EU Delegation, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Embassies of

Denmark and Switzerland, Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility,

UniversityofthePhilippines-Diliman,DeLaSalleUniversity-Manila,Universityof

SantoTomasandnewspapercompaniesnamelyManilaBulletin,PhilippineStar,

Tempo, Manila Times and Philippine Daily Inquirer, Air France, Bayleaf Hotel-

Intramuros.



Further

information

http://www.eunic-online.eu/?q=content/eunic-philippines-cartooning-peace

EUNICLabonconveningnewaudiences.Curatorial

ProjectandSeminar:EngagingwiththeYouthand

DevelopingnewAudiencesandCuratorialSkillswith

Galleries,MuseumsandArtSpacesinSouthAfrica

EUNICSouth

Africa

SouthAfrica

Description TheprojectwasintendedtofacilitateinternationalcooperationbetweenAfrican

and European professionals and organisations, exchange best practices, and

contributetoaudiencedevelopmentandabetteraccesstothearts,cultureand

knowledgefortheyouthinSouthAfrica.

Fromcuratorstoartpractitioners,fromarteducatorstoculturalpolicyexperts,

the three-day seminar/laboratory brought together a variety of practitioners

from Europe and South Africa to focus on engaging with new, young and

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underprivileged audiences in South AfricanMuseums, Galleries and art places.

Unfoldingthroughprivateandpublicpaneldiscussions,sitevisitsandwalks,and

informaldiscussions,theeventsetouttointerrogatethreekeystreams:formsof

audience relationship thatarealreadyembedded in thepracticeof institutions

and inthepracticeof independentoperatorswithinthefieldofvisualarts; the

complexities of imagining new audiences in various institutional and social

contextswithin South Africa; andwhat new strategies could be proposed and

developed to aid institutions in developing new audiences. The Lab was

organised in Johannesburg, SowetoandPretoria, in the contextof EuropeFest,

theMonthofEurope'sCultures.

Partners VisualArtsNetworkofSouthAfrica-VANSA(co-organiser),EUDelegation,

'ConnectingCreativeMarkets'programmesupportedbyBusinessandArtsSouth

AfricaandtheBritishCouncilprogrammeConnectZA.



CinnamonColomboscope EUNICSriLanka SriLanka

Description CinnamonColomboscope is amultidisciplinary festival launchedby the EUNIC

clusterinSriLankain2013.Itsfirsteditionexaminedthenotionofidentitywhile

the secondone focusedon the themeofmakinghistory. Its thirdedition, co-

financedbytheClusterFund,wasconceivedtohighlighttheimportanceofthe

arts in the context of urban development and creating space for artistic

expression and experimentation, therefore providing a platform to reflect on

the multiple chances and challenges of the development that the city of

Colomboisgoingthrough.

The2015editionofthefestivalexaminedColombothroughtheeyesofartists,

musicians, performers, writers and researchers. As the city’s only festival

dedicated to thearts in itsmultidisciplinary forms, the festivalpartneredwith

Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts and widened its scope for analysis with the

introductionoftwoparallelsegments:

-Talksand literatureprogramme‘TheCity. Identity.Urbanity.’,composedofa

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totalof17eventsthatfocusedonthebroadquestionsthatdefineColomboas

thecapitalofSriLanka.

-Visualartsexhibition‘ShadowScenes’,includingartanddocumentaryprojects.

It addressed the violent past of Sri Lanka through variousworks,whichwere

dealingwithdisplacement, loss,personalwarexperiences, and thevisionofa

futureSriLanka.

The topics of remembrance and recognition played a significant role in both

segments.

WithCololomboscope theEUNIC clusterwasable toestablish aplatform that

receivedtherecognitionofthecirclesofarts,culture,media,andcivilsociety.

No other event in Sri Lanka so far had delivered professionally curated

programmes on the theme of urban development and urban life style in the

scaleandqualityofColomboscope.

Partners Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts, “International Alert”, University of Moratuwa,

Polish Institute New Delhi, Prohelvetia, The Gujral Foundation in New Delhi,

commercialsponsors,mediapartners.



Furtherinformation http://www.cinnamoncolomboscope.com/

GreenSt.Petersburg EUNICSt.Petersburg Russia

Description GreenSt.Petersburgwasdesignedtoraiseawarenessonsustainability together

withgreenandenvironmentallyfriendlysolutionsinthecityofSt.Petersburg. It

alsohadtheambitiontohelpeasethetensionbetweenRussiaandtheEU.The

project was intended to have a cultural component (promoting art and culture

that reflect on green solutions) and a business component (promoting organic

food, green technology, green architecture and sustainable urban planning)

throughthreemainactivitieswereenvisaged:

- CO2GreenDriveFestivalinSt.Petersburg:theCO2GreenDriveProjectis

aworldwideseriesofart,climateandtechnologyeventstopromotegreen

growthandtomotivatethegeneralpublictotakeactivepartinaddressing

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thechallengesofurbantransportation.

- EKO-Festival – Green St. Petersburg: to inspire people for cautious

attitude towards environment through aesthetics, ethical consumption,

healthylifestyleandmoderntechnologies.

- Nordic Weeks: an annual initiative of over 30 events in architecture,

literature, history, innovations, environment and Nordic culture, jointly

organised by the Nordic Council, the Consulates General of Norway,

Sweden,DenmarkandFinlandinStPetersburg,theEmbassyofIcelandin

Russia, the Danish Cultural Institute and the Institute of Finland in St

Petersburg.

The Green St Petersburg Festival tackled sustainability from the novel angle of

multifarious national cultures and art, combining areas as diverse as fashion,

architecture,film,photography,cuisine,performanceart,andmusic.Theformat

of the activities was equally diverse and aimed at involving, instructing and

delighting thevisitors throughgames, lectures, exhibitions,debates,workshops,

master-classes, film screenings, concerts and performances. Furthermore, the

festival promoted multilingualism and multiculturalism thanks to its strong

internationalfocus.

Eventually, the dimension of the project was reduced for various reasons, the

main one being that Russian NGOs that were partners to the project were

underfunded and understaffed and could not fully deliver their initial

commitments. The cluster is currently discussing on how to use the rest of the

grant.

Partners Local organizations among which Krasnoselsky neighborhood in St Petersburg,

SchoolofMartialArts,SchooloftheThirdAge,FilmandTelevisionSchool.

ClusterFundco-financing(Euro) Estimated:15,000

Spent:7,137.2

Totalbudget(Euro) 25,906.80


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AnnexIV:Listofclustersapplyingandreceivingfunding

ClusterFund–Y1(2012–2013):Applicants,Awardedclusters

1. Argentina-Cordoba

2. Austria

3. Brussels

4. Bosniaand

Herzegovina

5. Bulgaria

6. China

7. Croatia

8. CzechRepublic

9. Egypt

10. Estonia

11. Finland

12. Lyon

13. Georgia

14. Ghana

15. Hungary(two

projects)

16. Jordan

17. Kazakhstan

18. Lebanon

19. Lithuania

20. Morocco-Rabat

21. Norway

22. Palestine

23. Peru

24. Philippines

25. Portugal

26. Romania

27. Senegal

28. SouthAfrica

29. Spain

30. Sweden

31. Thailand

32. Tunisia

33. Turkey(fourprojects,

onewasawarded)

34. UK–London

35. US–Chicago

36. US–NewYork

37. US–WashingtonDC

ClusterFund–Y2(2013–2014):Applicants,Awardedclusters

1. Cordoba

2. BuenosAires

3. Almaty

4. Athens

5. Australia-Sydney

6. Brazil

7. Brussels

8. Bosniaand

Herzegovina

9. Bucharest

10. Canada–Toronto

11. Colombia-Bogota

12. Croatia

13. Egypt(twoprojects,

onewasawarded)

14. Estonia

15. Ethiopia

16. Lyon

17. Bordeaux

18. Georgia

19. Germany–Berlin

20. Germany–Frankfurt

21. Hungary-Budapest

22. Ireland–Dublin

23. Israel

24. Jordan

25. Latvia

26. Morocco-Rabat

27. Norway(twoprojects)

28. Palestine

29. Peru

30. Philippines

31. Krakow

32. Warsaw

33. Portugal-Lisbon

34. Serbia(twoprojects,

onewasawarded)

35. Slovakia-Bratislava

36. Slovenia

37. Spain-Madrid

38. Stockholm(three

projects,onewas

awarded)

39. SouthAfrica

40. Thailand

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41. London

42. NewYork

43. WashingtonDC

44. Montevideo

45. Vienna

46. Vietnam-Hanoi

ClusterFund–Y3(2014-2015):Applicants,Awardedclusters

1. EUNICAthens

2. EUNICBrazil

3. EUNICBucharest

4. EUNICBuenosAires

5. EUNICCanada

6. EUNICEgypt

7. EUNICGeorgia

8. EUNICIndia

9. EUNICIsrael

10. EUNICLebanon

11. EUNICLithuania

12. EUNICLondon

13. EUNICMENA(Jordan

leading)

14. EUNICMontevideo

15. EUNICMorocco-

Rabat

16. EUNICMozambique

17. EUNICNamibia

18. EUNICOPT(now

EUNICPalestine)

19. EUNICPeru

20. EUNICPhilippines

21. EUNICPrague

22. EUNICSerbia(two

projects)

23. EUNICSouthAfrica

24. EUNICSriLanka

25. EUNICSt.Petersburg

26. EUNICSweden

27. EUNICSydney

28. EUNICTurkey

29. EUNICUkraine

30. EUNICWashingtonDC

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AnnexV:Methodology

Objectives

- To assess the performance of the Cluster Fund between 2012 and 2015 against its

objectivesandexpectedresults(listedinAnnexI).

- TodraftnewguidelinesforthefutureOperationoftheClusterFundinorderittosupport

thedeliveryoftheStrategicFramework.

Scope

Threemainareaswerecoveredbytheevaluation:awardedprojects(quantitativeandqualitative

analysisoftheprojectsreceivingagrant),clusters’responsetothecalls(quantitativeanalysisof

the applications submitted), and management procedure (evaluation criteria and process,

applicationandevaluationforms,timelineandfollow-up).

Phases

Phase1:mappingthedocumentationandcollectingthemissingdata.

The first stepwas tomap thedocumentationavailableon theEUNICGlobalarchiveandcollect

relevant missing information, i.e. the missing evaluation forms for the awarded projects in Y3

(2014-2015).Thereasonfornotrequestingthemissingevaluationformsofpreviousyearsisthat

projectmanagersinchargeofthoseawardedprojectswouldhaveprobablymovedtoadifferent

posting.

Phase2:firstanalysisoftherelevantdata,extractingandorganisingthem

The objective of this phase was to do a preliminary analysis of the documents with a view to

extracting the relevant information, stored in different documents (minutes of Strategy Group

meetings, application packs, evaluation forms, etc.), and displaying it in a structured and

comparablewayinordertofacilitatetheirsubsequentanalysis.

AshortdiscussionpaperonpreliminaryresultsoftheClusterFundevaluationandpossibilitiesfor

theClusterFundGuidelineswaselaboratedanddiscussedwiththeStrategyGroupandBoardof

Directors during a meeting organised in February 2016. The feedback received during this

consultationwasincludedintheprocessoftheevaluation.

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Phase3:In-depthanalysisandconclusions

During this phase, a qualitative and quantitative analysis covering the awarded projects, the

response to callsand themanagementprocedurewasperformedwithaview tounderstanding

theworkofEUNICclusters(typeofprojects,processes,strategicapproach,etc..)andtheroleof

the Cluster Fund in it; identifying gaps and potential areas of improvement; assessing the

performanceoftheprojects inrelationtotheClusterFundobjectivesandexpectedresults;and

envisaginganewmodel for the futureoperationof theClusterFund inalignmentwithEUNIC’s

StrategicFramework.

The draft conclusions and recommendations of the Cluster Fund Evaluationwere presented to

focalpointsandstrategists(EUNICAcademyinNancy,May2016)andtheirfeedbackincorporated.

The report was concluded following the approval of the final draft conclusions and

recommendationsbytheGeneralAssemblyinCopenhageninJune2016.

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