Piccolo Opera Festival together with European Capital of Culture (ECOC) Nova Gorica – Gorizia 2025 is holding an open call for new compositions, with the aim to give space to new creativity within the 2022 edition of Piccolo Opera Festival and as the opening of GO! Borderless Opera Lab, a new professional training project.

In early November, Gregor Karer from Nova Gorica took over the management of the public institution GO! 2025 European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica, as the acting director. He was appointed to this position by the decision of the mayor of Nova Gorica Klemen Miklavič, PhD. The director of the public institution will be chosen on the basis of the public call, which will be published on Monday, 3rd January 2022.

 The Municipality of Nova Gorica invites all interested candidates to get acquainted with the public call, which will be published on 3rd January 2022 on the website of GO! 2025 and on the website of the Municipality of Nova Gorica.

In addition to the general conditions set out in the law, the candidates will also have to meet the following conditions set out in the Decree establishing the public insitution GO!2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica:

higher university education (previous), minimum specialisation in higher professional education (previous), master's degree (second cycle degree), master's degree in higher professional education (previous);
at least five years of work experience in management positions;
knowing the expertise area of the institution;
active knowledge of the Slovenian language;
knowledge of the Italian and English language at a higher level;
possessing organisation and management skills.
 

The candidates will have to enclose a curriculum vitae and the development programme of the institution for the term of office. 

Egtc Go, European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation, published an international competition for the selection of the logo and visual identity of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia.

We asked managers of the European capitals of culture from 2022 to 2025, five same questions to understand their expectations in a clear and concise way. Each interview is preceded by a fact sheet on that European capital of culture. The format is the same for all. At the end of the series of interviews we will try to make a synthesis of objectives, trends, expectations by the Ecocs. After NoviSad2022, Esch2022, Kaunas2022 , Veszprem2023, Eleusis2023, Timisoara2023, Tartu2024, Bodø2024 and Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024, today we talk about Nova Gorica - Gorizia, European capital of culture 2025.

The Municipality of Nova Gorica as a part of GO! 2025 – The European Capital of Culture, invites artists to create proposals for urban interventions as wall paintings or wall installations. In May and June 2021, their border area will host two major and important events: the Giro d’Italia and the Biking Race of Slovenia, which will attract wide attention from the international public.