Brainstorming Report ‘Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries driving Green Transition and facing the Energy Crisis’ released

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Voices of Culture – the structured dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector, funded by the European Commission and implemented by Goethe-Institut – has announced the publication of the Brainstorming Report on the topic ‘Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries driving Green Transition and facing the Energy Crisis’. FERA representative and board member Dutch filmmaker Martijn Winkler contributed throughout the process.

In its September 28 communication, Voices of Culture highlighted that “this Brainstorming Report recommends that the European Commission introduce new institutional forms of support and funding structures to empower CCSI to do what it can do best: to break with tradition and expectation, break rules, habits and practices, replacing them with new perspectives and forms. CCSI needs courageous, competent funding and policy enablement to be able to offer the courageous cultural interventions that a complex, multi-dimensional strategy such as the European Green Deal needs. 

The findings represented in the Brainstorming Report reveal a wealth of European initiatives to support the greening of CCSI and present a number of recommendations to build on and extend the effectiveness of those initiatives. The report is aimed at both cultural practitioners on local and national levels, and policy makers, providing both with useful tools and recommendations for their work.”

FERA representative and board member Dutch filmmaker Martijn Winkler took part in each stage of the process: as one of the participants from 35 organisations selected by the European Commission Structured Dialogue platform Voices of Culture, he joined the two-day brainstorm session on June 15 and 16, 2023 in Tartu, Estonia, which collected insights, experiences, and recommendations on this topic from civil society. He then joined the presentation of the session’s outcomes were presented and subsequent discussion with the European Commission which took place on n September 6, 2023.

The brainstorm report is now available to practitioners and stakeholders on local, national and EU levels: it can be downloaded here.