Dr. Damien Helly, Deputy Head of Programme, EU External Action, ECDPM Roberto Cimetta Fund (with Région Nord-Pas de Calais ) Take-aways from debates Brussels 27 February 2015 Euro-Arab Relations and Local Cultural Development

Introduction: exploring and exploiting gaps and spaces ECDPMPage 2 Photo: Damien Helly

1. Theme 1 – decentralisation / local authorities and communities 2. Theme 2 - opportunities on the EU side? -New funding modalities? -HOW? 3. Theme 3 – The How 4. What mattered for you today? Structure of this report ECDPMPage 3

1. Theme 1 – decentralisation / local authorities and communities ECDPMPage 4 -Changing environment of asymetries:  Financing needs at all stages of creative process for grantees, lacking at local government level. Financing available elsewhere (Gulf countries, Asia, South- South, Foundations, Americas) - where are the resources? How to manage them? “Distance in Euros” - -Culture in violent contexts – culture in stable settings or transitions  not the same approach? -Linkages beyond artists: between and policy space for national / local authorities, private sector – local creative sector-, communities, audience, educational structures, artists -Power struggles behind cooperation (Trojan horses and colonial memories)

2. Theme 2 – new opportunities on the EU side? ECDPMPage 5 1.We don’t always have the same aims – policy and political dialogue with national but also local authorities, and with cultural professionals themselves? (being in line with guidelines of calls for proposals – results from EU preparatory action) – culture in violent environments? 2.Umbrella funding organisations – what linkages with local authorities? 1.Understanding or discussing the EU rules together?: Need for information detailed as much as possible: on financial regulations, on policy processes. Role of EU Delegations in support to local development? Role of new EU website? 2.What about cultural institutes and European Member States?

3. Theme 3 – The HOW (1) ? ECDPMPage 6 1. Financing: linking the EU level, the “local” level, and mobility for financing (and policy)? How to fund emergency response? 2. Along which common aims? -Peace. -“We are looking for the “individual” in our countries”, -Economic, human development / long-term impact, -Expand public space -How to better jointly define EU calls for proposals? (new procedures).

3. Theme 3 – The HOW (2) ? ECDPMPage 7 3. Adjust the pledge for changing definitions of mobility internet doesn’t replace mobility – fake mobility? - back to Earth/Gaia (Latour) diaspora and displacement re-territorialisation, beyond artistic, professional mobility moves within a country you need to know, community/audience, crossing borders, residencies, intercultural dialogue & learning, clarifying aims, co-building projects

3. Theme 3 – The HOW (3) ? ECDPMPage 8 4. “Our own research” / co-research Mappings “Doing our own research” (anthropological > esthetical) Knowing the audiences differences – reaching out to the other – translation. 5. In stability, supporting structures - Wifi / IMA / spaces - Write the case / branding & marketing of a territory -Support public services

4. What do you want to take away from today? ECDPMPage 9 Feedback from the participants: The EU does work with local authorities especially through the cross-border programme. You missed the role of informal structures We need plan for action beyond understanding each other. Are we redistributing cultural power?

Thank you Page 10 Questions to: Dr Damien Helly Deputy Head of Programme ECDPM