Organisation
ECF’s Director is Katherine Watson and ECF’s President is HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands. The European Cultural Foundation was set up in Geneva, in 1954, by the Swiss philosopher Denis de Rougemont. The Foundation’s first President was one of the principal architects of the European Economic Community, (later the European Union), Robert Schuman.
The foundation has run several large scale European programmes including, ‘‘Plan Europe 2000’ and managed the European Commission’s educational programmes Erasmus (1987–1995), Eurydice (1980–2001) and Tempus (1992–1993). ECF has set up many project initiatives such as East-West Parliamentary Practice Project, Art for Social Change (in conjunction with Open Society Foundations) and ALMOSTREAL. ECF is a registered charity and is funded by BankGiro Loterij and de Lotto through its longstanding partnership with Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
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