{"id":830,"date":"2010-03-24T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2010\/03\/24\/celebrating-25-years-of-european-capitals-of-culture\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T00:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:27:02","slug":"celebrating-25-years-of-european-capitals-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2010\/03\/24\/celebrating-25-years-of-european-capitals-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":">Celebrating 25 years of European Capitals of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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25 years have passed since Athens<\/a> became the first European Capital of Culture<\/a> back in 1985 (the year I and some other CD members were born, ouch!). To celebrate the anniversary, European Commission (Director General of DG Education and Culture)<\/a> organised a conference<\/b><\/a> to meet and speak about the future, present and past European Capitals of Culture<\/b>.<\/div>\n
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As one of AEGEE’s Fields of Action is cultural exchange, Agata and me attended the conference here in Brussels as well. While listening to all key-note speakers, experts and mayors, we also thought how can AEGEE<\/b> and our Culture Working Group<\/a> get more involved<\/b> in European Capitals of Culture. Organising events in European Capitals of Culture in the respective years? Cooperating with the candidate and applicant cities and become a part of the official program already before? Having an international partnership or just local ones? And what about Autumn Agora Istanbul 2010<\/a>?<\/div>\n
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Of course, big part of such events in networking. While sitting and relaxing on the couch between the sessions we managed also to have a talk with Hatto Fischer<\/b>, philosopher, poet and coordinator of Greek organisation “Poiein kai Prattein<\/a>“. Previously he was working for the European Commission and therefore turned out that he knows almost all 200 participants of the conference, especially the most prominent ones, so we had a short talk also with representatives from the <\/b>Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe<\/b><\/a> and <\/b>UNEECC<\/b><\/a> (The University Network of the European Capitals of Culture). Exchanging business cards and getting more ideas how can we contribute to European Capitals of Culture was beneficial!<\/div>\n
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Can’t miss also the interesting stands<\/b> of past, present and future European Capitals of Culture. We were going through the huge program of Istanbul as European Capital of Culture 2010<\/a>, getting bracelet from Sibiu (European Capital of Culture 2007)<\/a> for our CD assistant Sorin as he is exactly from this city, having a chat and getting beer with Pilsen<\/a> representatives as they are one of the candidate cities for 2015 etc.<\/div>\n
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In the evening – opening of the<\/b> European Capital of Culture exhibition<\/b> with the opening speech by Commissioner Mrs Androulla Vassiliou<\/a>. Full day of culture!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

> 25 years have passed since Athens became the first European Capital of Culture back in 1985 (the year I and some other CD members were born, ouch!). To celebrate the anniversary, European Commission (Director General of DG Education and Culture) organised a conference to meet and speak about the future, present and past European Capitals of Culture. As one… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}