B. Networks

This funding strand offers support for European creative and cultural networks. These networks aim to support their members’ capacity to better operate trans-nationally, to build their capacity to work across Europe and adapt to change. Networks encourage linguistic and cultural diversity, strengthen competitiveness, and promote skill-sharing and good practice. 28 networks have been funded by the Creative Europe programme that span different art forms and sector interests from music to cultural policy. Several organisations in Northern Ireland are members of networks including the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM) of which Prime Cut Productions and Belfast City Council are members. The Beat Carnival are members of Trans Europe Halles who are a network of arts organisations and cultural centres who have re-purposed out of use industrial buildings.

“The Trans Europe Halles network of independent cultural centres has been a doorway to ideas, knowledge and long-term relationships that have sustained my local endeavour in ways that were not otherwise available when only looking around and connecting in my own small space.”

David Boyd, Beat Carnival

Participants from the Trans Europe Halles and Beat Carnival Arts Education Seminar that was held in Belfast March 2019