To mark the opening day of the European Capital of Culture Trenčín 2026, an evening event open to all will take place on 20 June, starting at 6 pm, celebrating friendship, culture and the ties between the two European Capitals of Culture: Trenčín and Nova Gorica / Gorizia.

At its extraordinary meeting on 25 March, the Supervisory Board of Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH unanimously appointed Josephine Hage as the new Managing Director with effect from 1 October 2026.

The European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 will bid farewell to the programme year this weekend with an outstanding (preliminary) result: the motto "C the Unseen" no longer applies - Chemnitz is now a fixed, visible point on the map of Germany, Europe and the world.

GECT GO, the entity responsible for relations between Slovenia and Italy, has published the third call for proposals under the Small Projects Fund, financed by the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia Program 2021-2027. 

The opening of a work by the world-famous US land art artist James Turrell on Friday 28 November 2025 in Oelsnitz/Erzgeb. will be the glowing finale of the Capital of Culture year. Turrell's light sculpture "Ganzfeld - Beyond Horizons 2025" will be installed as part of the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail  on the site of the former coal mine.