Can the UK continue to participate in Creative Europe?
While the UK will still be able to collaborate with cultural projects as a ‘third-country organisation’, Alexandra Büchler says there will be reputational and financial consequences.
The new Creative Europe programme will be launched in spring 2021, having secured an increased budget. The announcement made in February 2020 that participation in the programme would become another Brexit casualty added to Britain’s international reputational damage: the country that had consistently performed so well in the highly competitive European co-financing programme would join Turkey, so far the only country to withdrawn on ideological grounds, and reminded us that participation in such programmes is not contingent on EU membership, as 40 countries participated at the time of the last call which was the last one the UK was eligible to take part in.
An emotional response to these changes is only natural: how can we not feel a sense of grief as our very identity is being redefined against our will and the ties with our nearest neighbours and partners are being severed. But we are also responding to the practical implications: to being barred from access to a source of financial support that had until now made it possible to initiate and partner in multilateral cooperation projects and to the loss of freedom to travel and work in the wider Europe.
Literature Across Frontiers has developed with sustained support from the successive EU culture programmes, leading large cooperation projects for...Keep reading on Creative Europe UK.
The new Creative Europe programme will be launched in spring 2021, having secured an increased budget. The announcement made in February 2020 that participation in the programme would become another Brexit casualty added to Britain’s international reputational damage: the country that had consistently performed so well in the highly competitive European co-financing programme would join Turkey, so far the only country to withdrawn on ideological grounds, and reminded us that participation in such programmes is not contingent on EU membership, as 40 countries participated at the time of the last call which was the last one the UK was eligible to take part in.
An emotional response to these changes is only natural: how can we not feel a sense of grief as our very identity is being redefined against our will and the ties with our nearest neighbours and partners are being severed. But we are also responding to the practical implications: to being barred from access to a source of financial support that had until now made it possible to initiate and partner in multilateral cooperation projects and to the loss of freedom to travel and work in the wider Europe.
Literature Across Frontiers has developed with sustained support from the successive EU culture programmes, leading large cooperation projects for... Keep reading on Creative Europe UK.