10.06.2025
Café Climate is an initiative of the Climate Group of the European Alliance of Academies and creates a space for open dialogue on the impact of the climate crisis on everyday life, democracy, art and culture. In a relaxed café atmosphere, international experts, artists and the audience discuss various topics together at different tables...
10.06.2025
The UK’s different nations operate under different laws and live with different memories and traditions. I am writing as a long-time Londoner, a city that has its own atmosphere and has prided itself on its open-minded hospitality to different viewpoints and open debate, and relished argument and dissent as being productive of greater social vitality, in itself a good for one and all.
6.06.2025
The Bratislava Declaration reflects the experiences of cultural professionals, artists and representatives of institutions who are confronted daily with the consequences of the erosion of artistic freedom in Europe.
7.04.2025
Read our recap of the "Polish Perspectives" programme night
5.02.2025
In recent years, several creators (rappers, writers, artists and playwrights) have been censored in Spain by different political authorities, with some of them condemned and forced to move abroad (i. e. the Valtònyc case, see below). These cases have highlighted the need to reinforce existing legal mechanisms to defend artistic freedom. The cultural and academic sectors have promoted an interesting debate in this regard, which is expected to influence political decision-making in the next years.
16.12.2024
In 2015, Malta sparked a nationwide debate on censorship following the obscenity trial of novelist Alex Vella Gera and publisher Mark Camilleri.
13.11.2024
The European Alliance of Academies starts a series of contributions dealing with the topic of artistic freedom in different European countries. A kaleidoscope on the state of democracy.
13.09.2024
Join us for a multifaceted evening of performances, readings, music, film and critical discussions about the freedom of art in Hungary!
6.09.2024
The Café Climate aims to engage in a dialogue at equal level with civil society, experts and political actors on the topics of climate, energy, democracy, arts and culture. In an informal atmosphere, at small tables, like in a café.
