Three calls for applications have been announced today for promotion of cultural and creative industries (CCI). In total, 15.5 million euros have been allocated for this purpose.

Starting from 2022, the management of the Baltic Culture Fund and administration of project funding will be taken over by Latvia’s State Culture Capital Foundation.

Please note that, before arriving to Lithuania from countries outside the European Economic Area, artists and the personnel providing services to them must submit requests to the Ministry of Culture, as long as the state-level emergency status, declared due to the pandemic, is still in effect in Lithuania.

Yesterday the Vice-Minister of Culture Daina Urbanavičienė participated in UNESCO regional consultations regarding the cultural policies in Europe and North America.

The meeting today between the Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys and the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan Ozaki Tetsu focused on the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, which will be marked in 2022, and on the discussion about ...

The European Commission has introduced the CulturEU tool, which is dedicated to informing the cultural and creative industries’ sectors about the most suitable EU funding possibilities for 2021–2027.

The possibilities created by the EU in the fields of culture and heritage can bring significant changes not only in specific locations but also in the local communities, and Kaunas is a great example of that.

On 25 November, an exhibition entitled Transitory. Photographs of Esch-sur-Alzette – Kaunas – Novi Sad was opened in Paris.

On 24 November, the Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys met with France’s Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin in Paris. The ministers discussed the prospects of bilateral cultural cooperation and the priorities of France’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU in the field of culture.

A Lithuanian four-day programme at the Blaibach Concert Hall during the weekend concluded the season of Lithuanian culture in Bavaria, which had continued for an entire year.

The Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys has started his visit in Paris today, which will focus on cultural cooperation between Lithuania and France and the upcoming year of the programme of Kaunas – the European Capital of Culture.

During the fellowship named after the Vice-President of the U.S. Hubert H. Humphrey, which is a Fulbright programme, its only Lithuanian participant, the Vice-Minister of Culture Vygintas Gasparavičius, said that this pandemic has unfortunately become a great medium for the spread of propaganda as well ...