In November 2022, the European Secretariat of German Cultural NGOs participated in the annual Culture Action Europe Conference and -Members Forum in Barcelona. The four-day event was organized under the title Culturopolis: International Days on Cultural Rights together with the Barcelona Cultural Institute and in partnership with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). The aim of the conference was to promote knowledge transfer and relations between cultural practice and -research.
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14 countries out of 261 – 53% of the total – have included culture in their
The #CulturalDealEU campaign calls heads of states and governments of the EU Member States to devote at least 2% of their National Resilience and Recovery Plans (NRRPs) to culture and show due evidence for cultural and European relevance. 
More than 100 organizations from the EU and the US have signed a letter ahead of the EU-US Summit in June 2021 to call for a greater focus on EU-US cultural relations and to reduce the obstacles to visas and work. Matters of particular importance also in recovering from the Corona crisis.
On 10 June 2021, representatives of IGBK and ITI participated in the digital annual General Assembly of Culture Action Europe (CAE). CAE’s members adopted the strategy paper for the years 2022-2024, which was already prepared at the Members Forum in April 2021.