The European Commission has set out a series of guidelines for future programmes that will replace six current Community programmes, including Culture 2000. The aim of the new programmes will be to enable institutions to improve the way they cooperate with each other.
Citizenship will become a key priority in the renewal and modernisation of current programmes, which come to an end in 2006 and by which time the European Union will embrace nearly 500 million inhabitants. Future programmes will encourage transnational mobility for cultural sector professionals and the transnational circulation of works, including ?intangible works?. Targets proposed so far include annual support for approximately 50 trans-European cultural networks or organisations and the funding of around 1,400 cultural cooperation projects across the enlarged Union.
Published: 17-05-2004