{"id":30381,"date":"2021-07-12T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica\/cultura\/cooperculturale\/unione-europea-eunic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:24:40","slug":"unione-europea-eunic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica\/cultura\/cooperculturale\/unione-europea-eunic\/","title":{"rendered":"EUNIC \u2013 European Union National Institutes for Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>EUNIC \u2013 European Union National Institutes for Culture<\/strong>\u2013 was established in 2006. This is a network of national bodies or other institutions\u00a0<strong>operating in the field of cultural relations<\/strong><strong>\u00a0on behalf of EU<\/strong>\u00a0Member States, outside their borders and with a certain degree of autonomy. The network includes Cultural Institutes, Foreign Ministries and sometimes Ministries of Culture from the various EU Member States. EUNIC currently has\u00a0<strong>39 members<\/strong> with offices in all European Union Member States and associated countries.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Italy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, with the foreign network of diplomatic Missions and Italian Cultural Institutes, and the <em>Societ\u00e0 Dante Alighieri<\/em>, are EUNIC members.\u00a0At local level, EUNIC members come together in\u00a0<strong>clusters<\/strong>\u00a0to work on joint projects: to date, there are 143 projects in 109 countries.\u00a0The work of these clusters is supported and guided by the EUNIC Global Office in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>EUNIC endeavours to give culture an increasingly important role in international relations, while defending the independence of the culture sector. At European level, the association is proactively involved in defining European Union policy and cultural identity; on a global scale, it promotes international cooperation, intercultural dialogue, knowledge and appreciation of different cultural expressions, capacity-building and the sharing of best practices. Action taken regarding culture is accompanied by a focus on a number issues in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda: protection of cultural heritage and the environment, human rights and gender equality, multilingualism, sustainable development, tourism, sport, education, youth, social inclusion and digitisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headquarters<\/strong>: EUNIC Global AISBL (Association internationale sans but lucratif), 18 Rue Ravenstein, 1000 Brussels, Belgium<br \/>\n<strong>Website<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/italiana.esteri.it\/italiana\/en\/eunic-european-union-national-institutes-for-culture\/%5C%5Cwww.eunicglobal.eu%5C%5C&amp;quot\">www.eunicglobal.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0EUNIC \u2013 European Union National Institutes for Culture\u2013 was established in 2006. This is a network of national bodies or other institutions\u00a0operating in the field of cultural relations\u00a0on behalf of EU\u00a0Member States, outside their borders and with a certain degree of autonomy. The network includes Cultural Institutes, Foreign Ministries and sometimes Ministries of Culture from [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30351,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-diplomazia.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167812,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30381\/revisions\/167812"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}