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31.03.2026

Opening Address by Anh-Linh Ngo at the Re:Create Europe Kick-off Meeting

We are meeting at a moment when artistic freedom in Europe is increasingly being challenged from within the political system itself. In Germany, we are currently witnessing political interference in the leadership of major cultural institutions: attempts to influence decisions at international festivals, to question or intervene in jury processes, and to exert pressure based on perceived political positions. At the same time, funding decisions are being prepared that could significantly weaken cultural institutions, often without transparent reasoning. This is not business as usual, and it is not just a national issue.

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27.03.2026

European Alliance of Academies launches the EU funded project Re:Create Europe

The four year project was launched on 25 March with a digital kick-off meeting together with over 100 Alliance members, partners and colleagues from across Europe.

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09.02.2026

Declaration against Budget Cuts for the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid

Having learnt about the drastic cut in funding by the Madrid regional government affecting the work of the Circulo de las Bellas Artes in Madrid, the 72 members of the European Alliance of Academies express their solidarity with the internationally renowned cultural institution and call on the Madrid regional government to reconsider its decision. I

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16.01.2026

The European Alliance of Academies Declares its Full Support of the Protests in Serbia

The European Alliance of Academies (EAoA) asks for more attention and solidarity in Europe towards the movement of students, artists and citizens in Serbia, showing courage and imagination to achieve and preserve freedom and democracy in their country.

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12.11.2025

Recap: The Arts and Migration(s): Reflections and Responsibilities

In Europe, the topic of migration in public discourse is increasingly dominated by right-wing populist narratives that portray migration as a threat to the destination countries. The members of the European Alliance of Academies wish to counteract this and discuss migration as a vibrant phenomenon, as a driving force for artistic and cultural exchange in Europe.

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29.10.2025

Malta Statement

The European Alliance of Academies calls for recognition of the vital contribution of migrants to art, culture and society

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16.07.2025

The Political Autonomy of Art

The relationship between art and politics is complex and fraught with tension. On the one hand, art is a critical medium that reflects social conditions. On the other hand, it is at risk of being instrumentalised by politics. In Europe, the way in which the resilience of democratic society can be weakened by political interference in culture is being demonstrated in countries such as Hungary, and also, increasingly, in Italy. These worrying developments should serve as a warning.

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10.06.2025

Café Climate in Paris

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…

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10.06.2025

Freedom of Expression in the UK

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.

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06.06.2025

European Alliance of Academies signs the Bratislava Declaration

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.

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03.06.2025

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies signs Bratislava Declaration of the Open Culture! International Conference

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23.05.2025

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies supports Slovakian artists and cultural professionals at international conference in Bratislava

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07.04.2025

Review: Polish Perspectives in Berlin

Read our recap of the “Polish Perspectives” programme night

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13.03.2025

Press Release: Polish Perspectives

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05.02.2025

Current situation of the artistic freedom in Spain

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.

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16.12.2024

Nationwide debate on censorship in Malta

In 2015, Malta sparked a nationwide debate on censorship following the obscenity trial of novelist Alex Vella Gera and publisher Mark Camilleri.

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13.11.2024

FIVE by Cécile Wajsbrot

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.

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26.09.2024

Press Release: The Price of Freedom

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13.09.2024

The Price of Freedom

Join us for a multifaceted evening of performances, readings, music, film and critical discussions about the freedom of art in Hungary!

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06.09.2024

Next Café Climate on Climate (In)justice

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.

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13.08.2024

Atlas of Change is launched

The Atlas is a subjective documentation for climatic changes already happening, as well as for effective solutions. A subjective and artistic evolutive map of Europe with texts, photos, videos, each time linked with a specific place, to awake more and more awareness about the climate issue.

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13.05.2024

Expression of Solidarity with Artists and Cultural professionals in Slovakia

The European Alliance of Academies expresses solidarity with artists and cultural professionals in Slovakia affected by new cultural policies.

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02.05.2024

Multimedia Atlas of Invisible Borders is launched

23 selected videos from 12 European countries offer a unique perspective on invisible borders

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15.04.2024

Review: The Climate We Live In. An Alliance Against the Far Right

Impressions and results from the last conference that took place 25-26 March 2024 at Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

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27.03.2024

Vote for a democratic Europe!

The European Alliance of Academies calls to vote in the European Elections 2024!

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27.03.2024

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies: A Strong Voice for a Democratic Europe

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13.02.2024

Press Release: European Elections 2024: European Alliance of Academies Calls for Elections for a Democratic Europe

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31.01.2024

New Artworks published on LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe

The nine selected artists engaged with the poems of Szépírók Társasága members and created multidisciplinary artworks that reflect on the social and political reality of today’s life in Hungary.

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13.11.2023

Support independent Hungarian Literature

Subscribe for the future of independent contemporary Hungarian literature and support the crowdfunding campaign of the Society of Hungarian Authors!

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20.10.2023

Berlin: Next Café Climate on Energy

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.

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26.09.2023

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies expresses its solidarity with those engaged in arts and culture in Poland

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21.09.2023

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies at the side of Agnieszka Holland in her right of artistic freedom

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21.09.2023

European Alliance of Academies stands in solidarity with Agnieszka Holland in her right to artistic freedom

TheEuropean Alliance of Academies, a network of over 60 academies from around Europe, has expressed its support of Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland who is facing personal hostility from the Polish Minister of Justice, Mr Zbigniew Ziobro, for her film Zielona Granica (The Green Border).

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18.09.2023

Press Release: Elections in Poland – The European Alliance of Academies campaigns for the right to artistic freedom

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06.09.2023

Review: Discussion on Freedom of Expression with young Britons at Cambridge

Censorship has many forms. European Alliance authors discussed the freedom of artistic expression in literature with UK students at Cambridge on 26 and 27 August.

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01.09.2023

Review: Rights and Freedom of Culture in Times of Political Change

Members of the European Alliance of Academies were alarmed by the situation of Polish cultural workers. In personal conversations with prominent representatives of independent museums, theatres and cultural institutions, it became clear how the Polish government is promoting the re-nationalisation of art and culture and is increasingly influencing artistic decisions.

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28.08.2023

Climate Café

How do we experience the climate crisis? And how can society be successfully transformed? We have had over 30 years to take careful steps to address the urgent task of transforming society. Nothing has happened – despite us knowing better!

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16.08.2023

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies discusses freedom of expression with young Britons at Cambridge

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07.07.2023

Atlas of Change: Climate Group launches Open Call

The Climate Group of the European Alliance of Academies presents their activities: Atlas of Change and Café Climate

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03.07.2023

The Silent Way towards Totalitarianism

On behalf of the European Alliance of Academies, author Cécile Wajsbrot summarises the concerns of Alliance members about the situation for art and culture in Hungary.

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13.06.2023

Architecture of Challenges – Rebuilding Ukraine

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07.06.2023

Madrid Book Fair: Freedom of Artistic Creation in Europe

Members of the European Alliance of Academies discuss the freedom of artistic expression and creation in Europe.

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06.06.2023

European Alliance of Academies Demands Artistic Freedom in Hungary and Europe

On 30‒31 May 2023, the European Alliance of Academies held a conference of solidarity with the Society of Hungarian Authors Szépírók Társasága in Budapest.

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01.06.2023

Press Release: European Alliance of Academies shows Solidarity with Society of Hungarian Authors Szépírók Társasága in Budapest and demands Artistic Freedom in Hungary and Europe

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16.05.2023

Press Release: Reminder: Solidarity conference Budapest with the Society of Hungarian Authors Szépírók Társasága

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20.04.2023

Press Release: Society of Hungarian Authors Szépírók Társasága under pressure: European Alliance of Academies hosts a solidarity event in Budapest

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05.04.2023

AoA Impro Group live at Pariser Platz

The group, which came together in 2020 to mark the founding of the European Alliance of Academies, is receiving rave reviews for its newly released CD “Live at Pariser Platz” 

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21.03.2023

Leipzig Book Fair: Forum Open Society

Within the programme of the Leipzig Book Fair, selected members of the European Alliance of Academies will address the question of what alliances of cultural institutions can do to counter the threats to democracy.

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24.02.2023

Support Offers for Artists and Cultural Actors in Ukraine

The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has already been going on for a year – the members of the European Alliance of Academies have compiled offers of help from their respective institutions.

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24.01.2023

Support Szépírók Társasága

Subscribe for the future of independent contemporary Hungarian literature and support the crowdfunding campaign of the Society of Hungarian Authors

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12.01.2023

The Freedom of Art in Times of War and Crisis

From 15-16 December 2022, 42 members from 19 countries of the European Alliance of Academies met at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin to discuss restrictions on artistic freedom in the face of war and crisis.

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19.12.2022

Press Release: 4th Conference of the European Alliance of Academies, Admission of the Ukrainian National Academy of Arts

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18.11.2022

Press Release: The Freedom of Art in Times of War and Crisis – 4th Conference of the European Alliance of Academies

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18.11.2022

OUT NOW! Journal der Künste #19

The current issue of the Journal der Künste #19 gathers important topics and key actors of the European Alliance of Academies. The focus lays on the recently published platform LOOM Interweaving the Arts in Europe – a digital space for artistic collaboration of the alliance members and in which artists’ positions are juxtaposed with current political challenges.

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10.10.2022

Presentation of Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age in Zagreb (Croatia)

A project presentation of “Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age” took place in Zagreb, Croatia.

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10.10.2022

The European Alliance of Academies launches digital artistic platform

#LOOM Interweaving the Arts in Europe is a digital platform for transnational projects and artistic cooperation among the institutions and artists of the network, providing possible answers to current social and cultural questions.

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20.09.2022

The National Academy of Arts of Ukraine joins the European Alliance of Academies

We are pleased to welcome the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine as the newest member of the European Alliance of Academies.

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08.09.2022

What does the European Alliance of Academies means to its members?

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19.08.2022

DECLARATION OF THE BOARD OF THE SZÉCHENYI ACADEMY OF LETTERS AND ARTS

The Széchenyi Academy of Lettres and Arts condemns the views of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his speech on July 23, 2022.

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17.07.2022

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism: Next call for submission of entries is open until 31 July 2022

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03.07.2022

Press Release: The European Alliance of Academies condemns the war against Ukraine

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22.06.2022

Press Release: Contested Histories, Shared Futures

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03.06.2022

28-29 June: Contested Histories, Shared Futures

To be able to think about the future, one must know the past, so the conventional wisdom goes. Narratives about the past, however, have become increasingly controversial.

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22.03.2022

Dresden: public debate „War in Europe – Consequences for Culture and Science“ (in German), 24 March 2022

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07.03.2022

The European Alliance of Academies condemns the war against Ukraine

The unthinkable has happened: War in Europe. This war polarizes. In particular with regard to the question of how to deal with Russian and Belarusian artists who publicly position themselves against the war. Despite this neuralgic point, the European Alliance of Academies has agreed by a large majority on the following statement:

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31.01.2022

Virtual Residencies announced

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16.12.2021

YOU DON’T! HAVE TO ENDURE IT

A students initiative at DAMU and YAMU in Czech Rebuplic gives public voice to campus testemonies in order to uncover outdated structures and misrouted distribution of power.The European Alliance of academies strongly supports the initiative.

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06.12.2021

The Power of Art

The second conference of the European Alliance of Academies (2 — 3 December 2021) focused on artistic cooperation – and how it can be used for a European understanding of art and culture.

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26.11.2021

Press Release: Strengthening European cohesion through art and culture Second – Conference of the European Alliance of Academies

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04.11.2021

Battle with the empty sky

Latest event of the Alliance of Academie in Hungary. The European Alliance of Academies launched a series of events on the freedom of the arts in Budapest with a public discussion and workshops involving authors from all over Europe and in close cooperation with Society of Hungarian Authors.

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21.10.2021

Press Release: Nationalism and language: European Alliance of Academies launches its series of events on the freedom of arts in Budapest

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19.10.2021

Support #freeszfe

After the students and teachers of University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest (SZFE) occupied their university building for 71 days in autumn 2020 to fight for the freedom and independence of the university, the Freeszfe Society, an independent creative, educational and cultural space, was founded in February this year.

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29.09.2021

Call for Projects

The European Alliance of Academies launches this call for projects on the topic of biopolitics, exploring the relation between governments and their citizens, especially in the context of the (post)pandemic crisis.

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23.09.2021

Overcoming Differencies and Celebrating Togetherness

Over summer break, the work of the European Alliance of Acadamies continued: Important topics and interviews with key actors of the Alliance are part of the current issue of the Journal der Künste #16.

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08.09.2021

The scissors in the head

The freedom of the arts is established in Article 13 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – and yet the Hungarian government is able to gradually and lawfully erode the autonomy of cultural institutions and art academies.

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19.07.2021

Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for journalism promotes fundamental values of the European Union

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism aims to reward outstanding and informed journalistic work on issues that promote and defend the fundamental values of the European Union. This year’s applications are open until 1 September 2021.

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22.06.2021

The EAoA condemns Hungarian LGTBQ+ bill

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13.06.2021

22ND POESIEFESTIVAL BERLIN: THERE LIES EUROPE

Under the heading There lies Europe, the 22nd poesiefestival berlin from 11 to 17 June 2021 is investigating the poetry of Europe in all its diversity of forms and languages, and in spite of the pandemic is building poetic bridges across the continent

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17.05.2021

Madrid: Innovation meetings in the Arts and Humanities on 20 May

The Círculo de Bellas Artes’ R+D+C Forum aims to become a meeting point between research in the Arts and Humanities and different economic and social agents,

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09.05.2021

Press Release: Restriction of Artistic Freedom in Hungary: complaint and petition of the European Alliance of Academies

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22.04.2021

Debates on Europe: Budapest & Beyond / Defending Intellectual Freedom

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19.04.2021

Artistic Freedom in Europe: Mission (in)complete!?

The European Alliance of Academies celebrates Europe Day by reminding the importance of artistic freedom in Europe.

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09.04.2021

Summit on European Cultural Politics and New Digital Solutions

What kind of policies are needed to support the European arts and culture scene? How can new digital spaces empower cultural actors across Europe? 

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17.03.2021

EAoA Members meet for vivd exchange

How can artistic cooperation take place in the digital space? What legal and political possibilities are there to protect the freedom of art in Europe?

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01.03.2021

Talking about our European future

What should the future of Europe look like? What do we wish to achieve together? What do we want to change when it comes to the European Union its institutions, regulations, and its inner and outer workings?

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22.02.2021

Launch of the Report on the State of Artistic Freedom 2021

At the Re:Writing the Future Festival, the State of Artistic Freedom 2021 report is launched by the non-governmental organization Freemuse.

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18.02.2021

The European Alliance of Academies warns against restricting academic freedom in Europe

The members of the European Alliance of Academies are in solidarity with Prof. Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, and Prof. Barbara Engelking, founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw

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15.02.2021

Hungary: Appropriation of Universities

The Hungarian Network of Academics’ (OHA) issued the following declaration of protest against the appropriation of Hungarian universities: The Orbán regime has changed gears in the process of seizing control of universities over the last few days: as if under martial law, five state universities have been rushed into a procedure to transform them into foundations, stripping them of all their remaining autonomy.

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08.02.2021

Best moments of founding conference 2020

What is the “European Alliance of Academies”? What does it advocate? And who is involved? In this wonderful compilation, we address these questions and highlights of the founding conference in October 2020.

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04.01.2021

Support Message for the Belarusian State Academy of Arts

In view of the persecutions of students and teachers of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, the European Alliance of Academies fully supports the statement of Prof. Jan Hančil, Rector of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

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04.12.2020

Society of Hungarian Authors “Hungary: beyond all hope”

A speech that equates the rule of law with gas chambers, solidarity with the deprivation of rights, and the European Union with Hitler’s Third Reich, erases the language itself.

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03.12.2020

Solidarity with SZFE University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest

Many partner institutions of the European Alliance of Academies have expressed their solidarity with the SZFE University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, Hungary. They are extremely concerned about the measures taken by Hungarian policymakers which are hindering the free development of the arts and artistic expression.

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27.11.2020

Hungary: Report on dismanteling culture, media and education

The report ’Hungary Turns its Back on Europe. Dismantling Culture, Education, Science and the Media in Hungary 2010–2019’ informs the Hungarian and international public as well as European institutions about the severe harm that the Orbán regime has caused in the fields of education, science, culture, and the media since 2010.

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24.11.2020

Madrid: Debate on the freedom of artistic expression

From 24-25 November, our alliance partner, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, proposes a debate on the freedom of artistic expression and creation.

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12.11.2020

Prof. Christoph Markschies highlights importance of alliances

Due to its special history, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities knows how precious and often hard-won freedom for art and science is.

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10.10.2020

Press Release: Berlin Manifesto of the European Cultural Institutions released today

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09.10.2020

Conference Opening Address by Jeanine Meerapfel

On 8 October 2020, the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, opened the conference on the foundation of an alliance of European academies committed to the freedom of artistic expression. Read the opening address by filmmaker and Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel here.

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05.10.2020

Supportive Words by Krzysztof Polkowski

Art and Science are the best forms of communication between individuals, communities and nations. Art and Science know no boundaries and no limitations. To develop, we must act in friendly conditions, in the atmosphere of trust and complete freedom. We should jointly and severally strengthen it for the sake of our countries and the sake of Europe.

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21.09.2020

Press Release: Alliance – Perspectives – Strategies: Meeting of the European cultural institutions from 8 to 10 October in Berlin

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