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Socio-cultural centres should involve people as part of the whole, building trust, understanding needs, and forming relationships. Community building comes with self reflection, local analysis, data collection, diversity, etc. Find out more about ...

Audience development in socio-cultural centres is more than just the number of tickets. It must aim in diversity, loyalty, funding, etc. Understanding your audience's behaviors, attitudes, and needs is crucial. Find out more about FULCRUM [here](h...

As part of FULCRUM, IG Kultur hosted a training programme, to help participants tackle one of the most pressing challenges they face, namely audience development and community building. As a result of the training, a digital toolkit for all socio-...

Sustainability ambassador Barbara from PMK, in Austria, introduces the centre and presents the first steps they took towards sustainability. As part of the Sustainability at the Centre training programme, she highlights that sustainability is no...

Sustainability ambassador Liva from Siguldas Devons, in Latvia, introduces and explains how sustainability is a built-in feature of her centre. She also presents her outtakes from the Sustainability at the Centre training programme, for example,...

Sustainability ambassador Linda from Saldus TIKS center, in Latvia, after explaining what their cultural centre is about, she presents her takeaways from the Sustainability at the Centre training programme, particularly on the importance of rais...

Sustainability ambassador Sylvia from ARGEkultur, in Austria, shows us around the organisation and explains the importance of teamwork and being part of a network, as a result of the Sustainability at the Centre training programme.

Sustainability ambassador Leni from De Grote Post, in Belgium, takes us around DGP and as part of the Sustainability at the Centre training programme, highlights the importance of raising awareness.

The yearly webinar of our working group on non-urban culture took place on December 17th, 2025. It is widely recognised that connecting community groups and residents with operators active in their local creative ecosystems can bring very satisfa...

2025 has marked the beginning of JuST, the new Creative Europe-funded project that will be the backdrop to most of our activities for the next four years. The JuST journey will bring you opportunities for networking, European cooperation, trainin...

Sustainability at the Centre is one of two training programmes offered by the Erasmus+ project "FULCRUM: skills development for future-proof socio-cultural centres". Through a co-created learning experience, the training gives participants the to...

JuST is the project under which most of our core activities will fall in the period between January 2025 and December 2028. Just like CUBE, it is funded by the networks strand of the Creative Europe programme. On February 10th, we hosted an inf...

Undertaking successful and sustainable grassroots cultural projects in non-urban areas requires sound awareness of the local context and the cooperation opportunities that it offers, as well as knowledge of where and how to seek funding. On Decem...

Struggling to retain your audience? How to bring people back? How to reach new audience segments? In the constantly changing cultural landscape, audience development is becoming increasingly important. Jonathan Goodacre, from UK-based The Audi...

In 2024, our flagship training programme on European project writing landed in Malta. The retreat was hosted by our local member Spazju Kreattiv at their stunning premises in the St James Cavalier fortress, at the heart of Valletta. Incubator 2...

On September 20th, our working group on Digital Ethics held an online webinar in the context of the Creative Skills Week 2024. On the agenda: cultural organisations’ reactions to the AI avalanche. We talked about conflicted practices, ethical que...

During this breakfast meeting of our Digital Ethics working group, that took place on Tuesday, May 28th, we picked up our previous discussion on the use of “artificial intelligence” in cultural centres. With the help of Femke Snelting from Titi...

By integrating ecological principles, not only can cultural centres contribute to a healthier planet, but also strengthen the social and cultural fabric of their neighbourhoods. The 2024 edition of Lights On looked at the vital role cultural opera...