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Open Call: Euro-Mediterranean co-creation residency programme

--- Update of October 3, 2022 ---
Find here the selected projects.
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--- Update of September 6, 2022 ---
The call for application is closed with more than 70 proposals.
The average age of applicants is 30 years old and they come from Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ukraine, Poland, Holland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Croatia, Greece, Albania, Germany, Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, France, Hungary, Cyprus.
Starting from today, the evaluation commission will work to select the four projects that will be realised in Basilicata, during the residency weeks in November 2022.
The evaluation commission is composed by:
Francesca Bertoglio, project manager of Bergamo-Brescia 2023, Italian Capital of culture;
Alessandra Vittorini-Sassoli, Director of Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali;
Irena Topalli, international relations manager of Tirana 2022, European youth capital (TEYC 2022);
Sendi Mango, co-founder of BridA art collective, partner of Nova Gorica -Gorizia Europena capital of culture (Go!2025);
Vania Cauzillo, stage director, co-founder Compagnia Teatrale L'Albero, Vice-chair RESEO.
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“Europe is its citizens, philosophical thought, arts, literary vibrancy, scientific discoveries, poetry, music, law”.
On 20th December 2019, during our Closing Ceremony in Matera, Mr. David Sassoli, the greatly missed President of the European Parliament, called on Europe to become an increasing praesidium of peace, freedom and democracy leveraging cultural participation.
On this basis and in the European year of Youth, together with Open Design School, in partnership with European Capital of Culture GO!2025 (Nova Gorica-Gorizia) and European Capital of Youth Tirana EYC 2022 and under the patronage of European Capitals of Culture Esch 2022, Kaunas 2022 and Novi Sad 2022, we call upon European and Mediterranean creatives to design and produce four residencies in Basilicata (IT), centred around the above-mentioned principles, through co-creation with local communities.
WHY THIS OPEN CALL
#together and #openfuture have been the keywords for our vision and our forward-looking path.
2022 is the European Year of Youth: Europe calls on young people to become active citizens and actors of positive change.
Europe needs the vision, the engagement and the participation of all young people to build a better future based on equality, inclusion and sustainability leveraging participation of local communities, especially those with fewer opportunities, from disadvantaged backgrounds, from rural or remote areas.
We want to invite young creatives, from Europe and the Mediterranean area, to work with local communities of Basilicata, investigating a new idea of Europe shaped around those principles and which embraces the Mediterranean area as a key place to shape the future.
WHO CAN APPLY
We will select four European and Mediterranean young creatives (individuals and collectives, aged under 40) for a three weeks residency in a village of Basilicata region (Italy) during November 2022.
Invited creatives will develop and deliver their proposal through a co-creation process with the local community and a local creative or cultural company, that will participate in the development of the project.
DEADLINE
September 2nd, 2022
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE OPEN CALL
Concept, Inspirations, Keywords and Values, Disciplines /Artform included, Deadline, Duration, Fee, Application information and Requirements, Selection procedure, Contact
HOW TO APPLY
Download and read the call, download the application form and send it via email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by September 02nd 2022. Subject: Creative Communities
Open Call “Euro-Mediterranean co-creation residency programme (in memory of David Sassoli)” (EN)
Application form (EN)
Omaggio a David Sassoli

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“Solo la libertà genera bellezza e non è un caso che la magia dell’artista, del poeta non sopporti limitazioni. E a Matera, quest’anno si è vissuta una straordinaria aria di libertà che ci fa credere che le tante difficoltà del nostro Mezzogiorno le possiamo affrontare e prendere di petto” David Sassoli
Il 20 dicembre 2019, in una Cava del Sole gremita di cittadini che sventolavano le bandiere dell’Europa, il presidente del Parlamento europeo David Sassoli, prematuramente scomparso l’11 gennaio scorso, pronunciò per la cerimonia di chiusura di Matera Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019 un discorso intenso e fortemente applaudito sul valore della cultura per la costruzione dell’Europa.
Intendiamo raccogliere questa importante eredità da lui lasciata, organizzando l'iniziativa in programma domenica 26 giugno alle ore 20:00 proprio nella Cava del Sole, luogo simbolico che il Comune di Matera ha recentemente voluto intitolare a Sassoli per questo suo profondo legame con la città.
La serata, cui prendono parte la moglie di Sassoli, Alessandra Vittorini, e i loro figli, viene aperta dalle testimonianze di rappresentanti di istituzioni e personalità locali, nazionali ed europee che lo hanno conosciuto e stimato, per riflettere e confrontarsi sui valori europei di cui il presidente Sassoli è stato portavoce.
A seguire presentiamo un bando destinato a giovani creativi europei e dell'area del Mediterraneo. Nell'Anno europeo dedicato ai giovani (European Year of Youth 2022), li invitiamo a sviluppare, attraverso una residenza in Basilicata, un percorso di co-creazione con le comunità e i creativi lucani, una nuova idea di Europa, modellata intorno ai principi e ai valori cari a Sassoli, e che abbracci l'area mediterranea come luogo chiave per plasmare il suo futuro. Facendo leva sulla creatività e sulla co-creazione, vogliamo continuare ad inviare messaggi all'Europa dalle aree remote del Sud, promuovendo valori universali e creando ponti.
Chiude la serata il concerto dell’Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, diretta dal maestro John Axelrod, che dopo la tappa nel programma di Matera 2019 ha scelto di tornare nella città dei Sassi nell’ambito della Tournée Sud Italia 2022 promossa con il sostegno del Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Spettacolo. Il concerto viene trasmesso in diretta su Rai Radio 3 e sul circuito EBU (European Broadcasting Union).
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VIDEO SALUTO DEL PRESIDENTE DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO ROBERTA METSOLA
GALLERY FOTOGRAFICA
Insieme per portare Matera in Europa

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Il tema dell’eredità delle Capitali Europee della Cultura è al centro della nuova puntata di Radio DeuS, la piattaforma di radio streaming sviluppata nell’ambito del progetto Erasmus + “DeuS- European Open Design School for regional sustainable development” dedicato allo sviluppo di competenze per il settore culturale e creativo, guidato dalla Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019 insieme al Consorzio Materahub e altri otto partner europei.
Attraverso le testimonianze provenienti dalle Capitali Europee della Cultura Kosice 2013, Leeuwarden 2018, Matera 2019, Rijeka 2020, Kaunas 2022, Veszprem-Balaton, il 9 giugno dalle ore 16.30 la puntata di Radio DeuS si concentra proprio sul tema della legacy presente e futura. A moderare l’incontro sono Rita Orlando, Senior Project Manager Open Design School per la Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 e Paolo Montemurro, Direttore di Materahub. Le conclusioni sono affidate a Sylvain Pasqua della Direzione generale Istruzione, gioventù, sport e cultura della Commissione europea. La riflessione prosegue il 10 giugno a partire dalle ore 10 sui canali di Materahub e Matera 2019, con la presentazione di Cultourdata: il nuovo progetto europeo a trazione materana che ha l’obiettivo di promuovere l’utilizzo dei dati nell’ambito delle Capitali Europee della Cultura per la misurazione degli impatti.
L’appuntamento, ricco di ospiti europei, chiude la due giorni (9-10 giugno) dedicata alle considerazioni finali del progetto Interreg ECoC SME a cura di Materahub, incentrato proprio sulle opportunità che il programma Capitali Europee della Cultura offre allo sviluppo dei tessuti imprenditoriali dei territori coinvolti.
Attraverso un processo iterativo di apprendimento e co-creazione partecipativa interregionale, i partner del progetto europeo hanno esplorato il processo di cambiamento del tessuto imprenditoriale di alcune ECoC passate e presenti, da Leeuwarden, a Matera e Rijeka, da Timisoara a Kaunas, con la convinzione che il coinvolgimento delle PMI nell’evento, sin dalla fase preparatoria, sia capace di rafforzare e diversificare l'imprenditorialità locale incoraggiando la loro cooperazione creativa e intersettoriale "non convenzionale", nonché l’internazionalizzazione dei territori.
Sotto il coordinamento di un team di esperti dell'Università della Finlandia orientale e venti "Local Learning Labs", il partenariato composto da Inqubator Foundation (Finlandia), Materahub, (Italia), Municipality of Rijeka (Croazia), Municipality of Timisoara (Romania), Vytataus University of Kaunas (Lituania) ha dato vita a nuove pratiche di coordinamento delle politiche locali/regionali, ovvero i Programmi Operativi Regionali, per sviluppare nuovi piani di azione e orientare policy future.
Per rafforzare la virtuosa esperienza condivisa del progetto DeuS, la Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019 e il Consorzio Materahub hanno sottoscritto nei giorni scorsi una convenzione finalizzata ad attuare forme di collaborazione sui temi della ricerca, formazione e orientamento nel settore artistico europeo, mettendo a valore in modo particolare l’esperienza dell’Open Design School.
Qui il programma completo dell'evento.
Happy Future 2022

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2021 has been the second year –after a great 2019 – that we have been forced to limit cultural activities and community get-togethers on account of the continuing sanitary emergency. Yet, in spite of this, we have succeeded in completing a few important projects as a legacy of the Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 experience.
First and foremost, the presentation of the results of the monitoring and assessment of the Matera 2019 experience which highlighted what was gained thanks to the ECoC title and the process it sparked as well as the changes it brought about from an economic, social and cultural point of view.
Together with the association “Open Culture 2019 Volunteers” which was set up to continue the experience of the Matera 2019 volunteers, we organized a professional development initiative called “Lezioni di volo” (Flying lessons) – a “toolbox” for learning how to “fly” in the world of cultural volunteerism and to build relationships not only in the local reality but also on a national and international scale.
During the Night of the Shooting Stars (St. Lawrence’s Night) in August, in order to raise awareness in the community as regards environmental issues such as light pollution, permanent and temporary citizens of Matera had the chance to watch the show “Matera sotto il cielo stellato. A rivedere le stelle” (“Matera under a starry sky. Gazing at the stars once again”). On that night, the Murgia plateau was studded with tiny lights and the music originating from an encounter of Italian and African artists spread from the Idris rock throughout the old town, I Sassi. An invitation to raise your eyes to the sky in the hope of preserving it from light pollution.
Indeed, it was to the safeguarding of and calling attention to the importance of dark skies that one of the two European projects that we completed this year was dedicated –the Interreg Europe “Night light” project. For five years, we played a key role, cooperating with institutions of seven European countries to improve regional public policies regarding these issues.
The second European project we brought to a close with a conference broadcast on an international web-radio set up especially for the occasion was the Erasmus+ project “DeuS – European Open Design School for Regional Sustainable Development”. Guiding this two-year partnership with other research institutes of nine European countries, we developed an innovative format aimed at the continuing professional development of operators in the cultural and creative business sectors, exporting the methodology of the Open Design School to other European countries. During those months, our experimental planning and production workshops were also at the service of our territory, such as the 3D printing course we ran for the students of Matera’s Minozzi-Festa Middle School. The Open Design School has also been selected as the official partner of the New European Bauhaus –an initiative championed by the President of the European Commission Ms Ursula von der Leyen – as a way of re-imagining our way of living together sustainably and inclusively by promoting a dialogue between art, culture, science and technology.
Among the groups we have cooperated with in town are the Matera Film Festival and the Matiff-Matera Art International Film Festival, leading up to the presentation of two films from Matera 2019 –“Il Nuovo Vangelo” ( “The New Gospel”) by Milo Rau in which the first black Jesus in the history of cinema leads a group of migrants fighting for dignity, and “Trenodia” about a public arts project with the participation of Mariangela and Vicinio Capossela which was filmed in Calabria, Campania and Basilicata in the year 2019.
Internationally, the main events we took part in were Expo 2020 Dubai where we cooperated with the Italian pavilion and Italian General Commissioner to organize the “European Capitals of Culture Day”, defined by EU Commissioner Paolo Glisenti as a “day of historic importance”. This was an opportunity to tell the story of the lively intelligence characterizing these cities as workshops where projects inspired by the New European Bauhaus are being experimented but also places where culture is a means for projects conceiving new connections between overcrowded areas and scarcely inhabited ones.
Throughout 2021, special attention has always been devoted to the hinterland areas, starting with the inauguration of Palestinian artist Emily Jacir’s works in the town of Pietrapertosa in the Lucanian Dolomites as part of the “Gardentopia” project and ending with the “In linea d’aria” festival involving five small towns in Basilicata that became artists’ residences and organized performances together with the local communities. At the end, a great final open-air event was held in Matera where participants exchanged views on how culture can generate new energy even in very remote areas.
During the course of the year, there have been several occasions –locally, nationally and internationally – where we were invited to recount our Matera 2019 experience as a reference point for all those who are eager to create for their realities new projects that have culture as a propellant.
We wish to thank all citizens, artists, institutions as well as the partners who have shared this year with us!
Happy Future!