Dr. Damien Helly, Deputy Head of Programme, EU External Action, ECDPM Meeting of Independent Artistic and Cultural Mobility Funds in the Mediterranean and Central America - Gulbenkian Next Future / Roberto Cimetta Fund'. Lisbon, Portugal. 18-19 June 2015

1. Dr. Damien Helly, Deputy Head of Programme,
EU External Action, ECDPM
Meeting of Independent Artistic and Cultural Mobility Funds
in the Mediterranean and Central America
Gulbenkian Next Future / Roberto Cimetta Fund
Lisbon
18-19 June 2015
Principles and ambitions for
cultural mobility

2. Introduction: exploring and exploiting
gaps and spaces
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Building on what you
discussed yesterday:
- Civil society
- Advocacy
- Cultural policies
- Funding
Bringing the ECDPM
perspective

3. 1. Theme 1 – mobility and crisis
2. Theme 2 - mobility, development and migrations
3. Theme 3 – The How
Structure of this report
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4. 1. Theme 1 – mobility and crisis
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- Mobility in violent and unstable contexts – culture in stable
settings or transitions  not the same approach?
- PRINCIPLES AND IDEAS  action:
1. Mobility of artists in conflict  cultural corridors / cultural
spaces
2. Dealing with the past & heritage mobility  Mobility of
memory, bringing critical heritage to people
3. Mobility outside the crisis area – Mobility to win peace /
Cultural rest & recuperation
4. Multingual mobility – “inject modernity in Arabic
language”

5. “We are the bees of the invisible.
We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in
the great golden hive of the invisible” Rilke
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How to ensure the bees
do their job, keep living
as a family, and are
able to make them lives
travel ?
Image courtesy of Lisa Ruokis via Flickr

6. 1. Theme 2 – mobility, development and
migration
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- Development agenda is changing (SDG) and migrations (in
Europe’s policies at least) are becoming (at last) a priority –
 Perhaps new opportunity to cooperate with Europeans?
- PRINCIPLES AND IDEAS  action:
1. Mobility of trust-building bridges: free cultural ambassadors are
highly needed – cultural creations are ambassadors themselves.
 pilot projects on free cultural ambassadors to be funded
with enough time (with an advocacy dimension)
2. Mobility makes bees’ lives possible transporting universally
needed pollen; know-how/skills transfer enabler, mobility of
solutions & mobility of people

7. 3. Theme 3 – The HOW ?
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1. Financing: linking philanthropy to SDG funding potential,
other funding potential, the “local” level, and mobility for
financing (and policy)?
2. Crises: How to fund emergency mobility? Rapid Response
Mechanism
3. Being heard: voice and policies: who is ready to be
political in the long term? Build more alliances

8. Thank you
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Questions to:
Dr Damien Helly
Deputy Head of Programme
ECDPM
dhe@ecdpm.org