Europe BEYOND is built on a simple conviction: culture is one of Europe's greatest strengths. It fuels our imagination that lets us picture a different future, builds resilience that helps our societies withstand and grow through crisis, and strengthens the community and democratic trust that hold Europe together through change. Imagination, Resilience and Agency are the red threads running through the conference, unpacked across the range of formats.

Europe BEYOND is co-organised by Culture Action Europe (CAE) - the major European network representing cultural organisations, institutions, artists, researchers, and activists in EU policy debates - and the National Centre for Culture Poland (NCC), a major Polish public institution dedicated to the development of the cultural sector through grant management, cultural education, research, capacity building, and the promotion of cultural heritage. Europe BEYOND is supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Poland and the European Union.

This event builds on a series of Culture Action Europe’s BEYOND gatherings that have been growing for years, bringing new voices and perspectives together to imagine, question, and shape the role of culture in Europe.