European Сultural Policy of Organization of the 21st Century Socio-Cultural Sphere

Nataliia Mohylevska

doi:10.31866/2709-846x.2.2021.246759

Abstract

Introduction. The last two decades are signed with culture meaning increase as one of the strategic priorities of the social and economic development of the EU related to the consolidation of common cultural space, management of socio-cultural activities, and development of “European citizens” identity under cross-cultural dialogue. Currently, the critical enabler of this cultural policy is special programmes. The application of the main principles of these programmes in real has been the key instrument of the European regional policy for last years. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is to cover the main tendencies and areas of concern of the European cultural policy based on comparative analysis of the cultural programme of the second generation. In the course of the research, the author has used the comparative, sociological, structural and functional, activity and situational-critical methods, with the help of which the features of the functioning of the above programmes were characterised. Results. Today the EU cultural policy implementation is via the prolonged “Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027” which, in comparison with other cultural programmes, is more structured and differs in an integrated approach to the organisation of the socio-cultural sphere, has incorporated all the implemented cultural and media programmes over the previous 20 years. Conclusions. In the article, there is the first analysis of the difference between the selected programmes in the context of verifying the thesis about the continuity of the programme's principles of the EU cultural policy at the present stage, as well as the objective trend of turning cultural policy into one of the main directions of European domestic policy for the development of the socio-cultural sphere.

Highlights

The last two decades are signed with culture meaning increase as one of the strategic priorities of the social and economic development of the EU related to the consolidation of common cultural space, management of sociocultural activities, and development of “European citizens” identity under cross-cultural dialogue
After a long process that was significantly delayed due to the problematic negotiations on the EU financial prospects for 2007-2013, the European Parliament and Council took up the issue, which resulted in the new Culture 2007-2013 programme that entered into force on 28 December 2006
The general objective of the programme, as stated in the decision, is “to extend the cultural territory of Europeans on the basis of common cultural heritage by promoting cultural cooperation between creators, cultural players and cultural institutions of the countries participating in the Programme to foster the emergence of a European citizenship” (European Union, 2006)

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The last two decades are signed with culture meaning increase as one of the strategic priorities of the social and economic development of the EU related to the consolidation of common cultural space, management of sociocultural activities, and development of “European citizens” identity under cross-cultural dialogue. The Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union laid the first serious steps towards settling EU cultural policy in the 1980s, underpinning economic and political cooperation These include the decision to create European Transnational Cultural Routes (Cultural policy of the EU), the establishment of an annual European Capital of Culture, the agreement on special conditions for young people attending museums and cultural events, and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, which established the preservation and promotion of the cultural diversity and identity of the member states as the main objective of the Cultural Policy of the EU

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