Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society

Summary

This cluster aims to strengthen our shared democratic values, including rule of law and fundamental rights, safeguarding our cultural heritage, and promoting socio-economic transformations that contribute to inclusion and growth.

Activities in this cluster focus on challenges pertaining to democratic governance, cultural heritage and the creative economy, as well as social and economic transformations. Examples include research on:

• ways to strengthen democratic values, such as the rule of law and fundamental rights
• safeguarding and promoting cultural heritage
• ways to support the cultural and creative industries
• social and economic transformations, addressing challenges such as inequality, poverty, and unemployment.

Finding calls under Cluster 2

The full details of Cluster 2, including the Work Programme for 2023–24, are available from the Cluster 2 homepage.

Cluster 2 homepage(external link) — European Commission

You can also browse the Cluster 2 topics, with text search and filtering, through the Funding and Tenders Portal.

Funding and Tenders Portal(external link) — European Commission

National Contact Points (NCPs)

Prof. Nancy November – NCP for Cluster 2 (Culture, creativity and inclusive society)

• Professor of Musicology, University of Auckland
• Auckland, New Zealand
• Email: Cluster2NCP@mbie.govt.nz

Andrew Sporle – Māori NCP

• Managing Director, iNZight Analytics; Deputy Director, Healthier Lives National Science Challenge; Associate Professor (Honorary) of Statistics, University of Auckland
• Auckland, New Zealand
• Email: MaoriNCP@mbie.govt.nz

Dr John Creech – NCP

• Horizon Europe Programme Manager, NCP coordinator, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
• Wellington, New Zealand
• Email: nzncp@mbie.govt.nz

Isaac Holliss - NCP

• Science and Innovation Counsellor, Europe, New Zealand Mission to the European Union
• Brussels, Belgium
• Email: nzncp@mbie.govt.nz