Culture Policy in the EU

Latest business news about culture policy in the European Union

Euro-chic tailored for the beach at Australian fashion week — 01 May 2008, 10:38 CET

Movie star Audrey Tautou is her biggest fan, but French-born, Sydney-based fashion designer Laurence Pasquier is keeping her feet on the ground as she attempts to match Euro-chic with Aussie informality.

Photo competition: Cultures on my street — 02 April 2008, 16:24 CET

As the Union grows together in its diversity, the European Commission challenges young people to capture their vision of intercultural dialogue and share it with the world in this competition open to all European residents, regardless of age or origins.

Weird and wonderful 'laboratory art' in Euro culture capital — 17 March 2008, 00:16 CET

"Designer" hymens, an ear grafted on to an arm and a tiny jacket composed of skin cells make for one of the strangest contributions to this year's events for the European City of Culture.

Britain picks former garbage collector for Euro song contest — 02 March 2008, 13:00 CET

A former garbage collector was on Saturday selected as Britain's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Belgrade in May.

Europa languages portal — 25 January 2008, 13:06 CET

This portal is your point of entry to information about languages from the European Union - Linguistic Diversity - Language Learning - Language Teaching - Translation - Interpretation - Language Technology

Languages in the EU website — 25 January 2008, 13:01 CET

Listen to all the 23 official languages of the European Union - i.e. the ones used for EU business. On this site you can hear examples spoken by interpreters from the EU institutions.

EC boost for computer-assisted translation — 21 January 2008, 23:35 CET

The EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a million sentences translated into 22 official EU languages in a bid to help the development of computer-assisted translation technologies and software.

DGT-TM - DGT Multilingual Translation Memory of the Acquis Communautaire — 20 January 2008, 15:24 CET

The European Commission's is making its collection of about 1 million sentences and their high quality translations in 22 of the 23 official EU languages freely available. This kind of data is highly sought after by developers of machine translation systems in which automatic translation software "learns" from manually translated texts how words and phrases are correctly and contextually translated. The data can also help the development of other linguistic software tools such as grammar and spell checkers, online dictionaries and multilingual text classification systems.

EU urges Russia to allow British Council to operate freely — 17 January 2008, 14:27 CET

The Slovenian EU presidency on Thursday urged Russia to let the British Council operate freely, voicing concern at "harassment" of staff in offices of the cultural body which have been forced to close.

Beatlemania back as Liverpool parties for Europe — 15 January 2008, 14:07 CET

Liverpool is enjoying a surging revival of Beatlemania, as its favourite sons take the spotlight to help celebrate the city's role as European capital of culture for 2008.

Culture capital celebrations hit high note in British city — 14 January 2008, 12:32 CET

The British city of Liverpool continued festivities to mark the start of its year as European Capital of Culture Saturday with a musical about its rich history.

Ex-Beatle launches Liverpool's year as cultural capital — 12 January 2008, 13:29 CET

Former Beatle Ringo Starr has helped launch his home city Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in an outdoor concert before 50,000 people.

'No chance' ex-Beatles will play together: Ringo Starr — 12 January 2008, 13:23 CET

Ringo Starr said Friday he would not be reuniting with the other surviving Beatle, Paul McCartney, not even during their native Liverpool's year as European capital of culture.

British city shakes off and embraces past as culture capital — 10 January 2008, 11:46 CET

The English city of Liverpool -- famed for the Beatles but also tarred with a history of poverty and unrest -- will showcase 20 years of rehabilitation as 2008 European Capital of Culture.

Liverpool to launch EU culture capital celebrations — 10 January 2008, 17:04 CET

Liverpool launches its year as European Capital of Culture this weekend with events including a musical about its past and future starring ex-Beatle Ringo Starr.

European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (2008) — 04 January 2008, 17:59 CET

The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) 2008 recognises that Europe’s great cultural diversity represents a unique advantage. It will encourage all those living in Europe to explore the benefits of our rich cultural heritage and opportunities to learn from different cultural traditions.

European Digital Library - guide — 29 November 2007, 01:21 CET

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Report on the implementation of the Action Plan "Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity 2004-2006" — 28 September 2007, 00:35 CET

The EU Action Plan "Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity 2004-2006" called for a progress review in 2007. A European Commission Working Paper reporting on its implementation was adopted on 25 September 2007. This report outlines the main results of the implementation of the Action Plan "Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity 2004-2006", both at European and national level. It highlights current trends in the reform of educational systems to better promote language learning, takes stock of what has been achieved in the past three years and provides a basis for further action in the field of multilingualism policy.

European Day of Languages 2007 — 27 September 2007, 16:30 CET

At the end of the hugely successful 2001 European Year of Languages, jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Commission, it was decided that 26 September each year should be the European Day of Languages, to celebrate the rich heritage of cultures and traditions embodied in all the languages of Europe – and not only the 23 official languages of the EU.

EU and Youth Policies - Frequently Asked Questions — 06 September 2007, 00:56 CET

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EU Tube — 03 July 2007, 16:31 CET

The European Commission has launched a dedicated channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual material more widely available to the public. "This initiative reflects the Commission's commitment to better explain its policies and actions on issues which concern citizens across the EU – such as climate change, energy or immigration" said Margot Wallstroem, Vice-President for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy.

EU terminology translator — 28 June 2007, 11:23 CET

A one-stop shop for EU-related terminology (InterActiveTerminology for Europe) in 23 languages opened to the public on 28 June 2007. The InterActive Terminology for Europe database, known as IATE, combines the terminology databases of the individual EU institutions and bodies in a single database containing 8.7 million terms and covering all 23 official EU languages. IATE ,which has been in use by the translation services of the EU institutions since 2005, already plays a major role in ensuring the quality of the written communication of the EU institutions and bodies. Offering easy access to validated EU-related terminology, it ensures the consistency and reliability of terminology which is indispensable for producing the clear and unambiguous texts necessary for guaranteeing both the validity and transparency of the legislative process and effective communication with the citizens of the Union.

Communication on a European agenda for culture in a globalizing world — 10 May 2007, 22:04 CET

The main purpose of the Communication is to see both what Europe can do for culture and what culture can do for Europe , with two main sets of objectives in mind: developing active European citizenship, respecting cultural diversity, promoting intercultural dialogue, while fostering a sense of 'European identity' complementary to other identities; the economic and social objectives of the Lisbon agenda, and the role of creativity in enhancing the competitive edge of Europe. (Culture and Creativity to Make Lisbon Work, states European Council - 9 March 2007).

Culture & the European Union - Frequently asked questions — 10 May 2007, 16:22 CET

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PLOTEUS Learning Opportunities portal — 08 August 2006, 11:56 CET

PLOTEUS (Portal on Learning Opportunities throughout the European Space) aims to help students, job seekers, workers, parents, guidance counsellors and teachers to find out information about studying in Europe.