Two European Capitals of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025 and Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024, will host an artistic residency to regenerate a series of monuments. The project is called DECORATOR artistic residencies 2025 and involves several regions of the Danube in Europe, with a focus on Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, and Germany. Deadline: 31 October 2025.

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. 

Everything is ready for the 20th edition of Mediterranea – Young Artists Biennial, a landmark event that brings together emerging artists from across Europe and the Mediterranean. Taking place from May 30 to June 30, 2025, in Nova Gorica, Vipava, and Gorizia, this year’s edition embraces the theme Our Collective Limits…, inviting visitors to reflect on the visible and invisible borders that shape our societies, our identities, and our future.

To mark the anniversary of “40 years of European Capitals of Culture”, 200 participants from various European countries, including representatives from around 50 former and future Capitals of Culture, delegates from the European Parliament, the European Council, the European Commission and the German federal and state governments, will meet in Chemnitz on Friday, April 4 for a conference. 

A forum to celebrate 40 years of European Capital of Culture in 2025 will be held on April 4 in Chemnitz, a European Capital of Culture along with Nova Gorica-Gorizia. At the moment the schedule is not yet known, but it will surely be announced in the coming days.