United by Future Places – Culture Action Europe annual conference

Culture Action Europe’s annual conference ‘Beyond the Obvious’ 2024 took place in Malmö (Sweden) in May 2024, this year under the title ‘United by Future Places’.

Cities as places of collective life, open places, places of participation and reflection – representatives from the cultural and social sectors exchanged views on this and discussed the role of culture as a guiding principle.

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This Is How We Work

As part of the 2023-2026 EU Work Plan for Culture, the This Is How We Work platform on the status and working conditions of artists and cultural professionals has been launched. The creation of this knowledge resource is based on the work of the Open Method Coordination Group, which published its report with recommendations on the status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals last year.

The platform is part of the Creatives Unite portal and gives access to status-quo snapshots on various aspects of artists’ working conditions in all 27 countries of the EU: regulatory status, social security, labour relations, learning and skills, and artistic freedom.  For the first time, the conditions in up to three countries can be directly compared.

In the future the platform will host analytical pieces and case studies on the topic, produced with the help of its key per-country material and external contributions.

This Is How We Work

State of Culture in Europe 2024

Culture Action Europe has started a research project on the state of culture in Europe. The project aims to create a comprehensive snapshot of cultural policies in Europe, the evolution of the EU’s cultural actions in recent years, priorities of national and EU cultural policymakers, and new directions for advocacy and policy.

The State of Culture 2024 Report is set to be published in the autumn of 2024.

EU Parliament adopts Resolution on Situation of Artists

The EU Parliament has adopted the resolution of 21 November 2023 with recommendations to the Commission on an EU framework for the social and professional situation of artists and workers in the cultural and creative sectors (CCS).

Concerning the “Status of the Artists” the resolution idetifies “the lack of a definition of CCS professionals and of recognition of the specificities of their working conditions as one of the main factors leading to the weak social protection coverage of CCS professionals.

“The resolution encourages explicitly the Commission and the Member States “to strengthen existing or, where not in place, set up new, adequately funded mobility information points as one-stop shops that are easily accessible in all EU languages and will help CCS professionals gather all relevant sectoral information concerning their working conditions, mobility, fiscality and social protection benefits”.

Over the last six months, through the EU-funded MIP Amplifier project, On The Move has worked with two members of the existing Mobility Info Point network – Touring Artists (ITI Germany) and Motovila Slovenia – on a project aimed at amplifying the actions of Mobility Info Points.

European Parliament resolution of 21 November 2023