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Creative Europe: A Cultural Network Cut Out for Ambitious Projects?

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Date: 06.07.21

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Author: Anne Leray

Photo credit: Myriam Lefkowitz

192 Dutch organisations – including 42 project leaders – received funding from Creative Europe between 2014 and 2020. These figures were shared with us by Klaartje Bult of DutchCulture, a centre that acts as a link between the Netherlands and the European Commission in Brussels. The new call for projects, officially released on 26th May, continues to generate a lot of interest. “There is strong competition between hundreds of European cultural actors,” says Klaartje Bult.

TodaysArt is an electronic music festival, an artistic laboratory that combines music, visual arts and technology, and a cultural production agency. It is involved in no less than four Creative Europe projects. “Europe is this wonderful continent where we share arts, languages, cuisines, architecture and design. Culture is one of the pillars of our European values, more so than our economic or military power,” says Olof van Winden, who created TodaysArt in The Hague in 2002.

Born in Kenya in 1976 to a French mother and a Dutch father, this insatiable traveller left The Hague in September 2020 in search of a fres...

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