Activities
ECF activities include a Grants programme, and two core programmes: the Youth and Media programme (works with other cultural organisations working with youth and new media) and the European Neighbourhood programme (develops the expertise of cultural actors of change in countries neighbouring the EU). ECF's digital platforms work to bring different communities together and are established providers of information on cultural collaboration in Europe. They also engage in several advocacy campaigns and actions that seek to deliver a coherent and well-funded European strategy for culture. ECF has an annual award celebrating artistic excellence in creative interaction between cultures, namely the Princess Margriet Award. Since 2004, ECF has awarded the annual Cultural Policy Research Award.
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“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
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