The new Culture Programme of the EU started in 2007. BO continued analysing the basic facts, statistics and preferences - from Eastern European approach. First results are going to be published at Connexus Documents (ConDos).

Antecedents: Culture 2000 under Eastern Eyes

Cultural co-operation between old, new and future EU members  - A statistical analysis 2000-2006

Authors: Péter Inkei, Daniela Langusi, Judit Friss, János Z. Szabó. Publisher: The Budapest Observatory, 2007 (32 pages, free).
ISBN: 978-963-87729-0-9

BO, true to its mission, started looking into the implications of Culture 2000 programme for countries in east-central Europe, as well as the co-operation with their EU counterparts still in 2002, when a first analysis was made. The favourable reception of that study invited an update after the 2003 data were disclosed. The second analysis covered the period between 2000 and 2003, based on the eastern countries' participation in the programme on their own right and looked closely at distribution of projects by country and field over a period of four years. Afterwards, many positive reactions reached us, including a Romanian translation of the booklet in 2005.

With the actual publication the exercise is completed, based on the data disclosed by the European Commission on the decisions made during the seven years between 2000 and 2006, under the umbrella of the Culture 2000 Programme. The full text of the analysis is downloadable from here: Culture 2000 under Eastern Eyes (pdf, 1275Kb)