European Theatre Convention e.V.

ETC is the largest network of publicly-funded theatres in Europe, with 57 members in 30 countries. We organise a wide range of activities to create brilliant new theatre, support and develop people working in theatre, and fight for the European theatre sector in a political context.
ETC promotes European theatre as a vital platform for dialogue, democracy and interaction that responds to, reflects and engages with today’s diverse audiences and changing societies and brings Europe’s social, linguistic and cultural heritage to audiences and communities in Europe and beyond.
Transformations is the name of ETC’s programme of activities for 2021–24, thanks to funding and support by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union among others. ETC continues its exciting offer from recent years – including conferences, artistic programmes and workshops – and adds new grants, new networking experiences and new chances to travel and exchange ideas.

ETC’s work is based on multiple principles in line with Creative Europe’s and the European Commission’s New European Agenda for Culture's, Gender Equality strategy 2020-2025's and the European Green Deal’s key priorities.

Thanks to generous EU and national funding, ETC has deepened its knowledge of the sector between 2017-2021 through programmes like ENGAGE and as partner of the newly created European Theatre Initiative of the European Commission and organiser of the first ever European Theatre Forum, as well as through activities such as studies (Gender Equality & Diversity in Theatre Study), publications (including three well-received casebooks on theatre practices), working groups (Drama Committee, Green Theatre Committee) and policy recommendations for theatre (covering themes: gender equality & diversity, digital, participatory, youth, Dresden Declaration).

ETC's main fields of action for the period 2021-2024 are:
- European Theatre Initiative and European Theatre Forum
- Sustainability (ecological and social) with a pledge for the network to reach carbon neutrality by 2030
- Intercultural Artistic Programme & Cultural Diversity: ETC develops innovative and transnational story-telling as well as new collaboration formats in the perspective of a diverse European repertory for drama theatres with a strong focus on young audiences and the use of technologies.
- Learning & Mobility: ETC offers instruments for multilingual theatre programming in Europe to promote and serve a linguistic and culturally diverse community on a permanent basis, resources for life-long learning about and through theatre. Professional development programmes aim at strengthening peer-to-peer learning and intercultural exchange in the theatre sector.
- Audience Development & Access to Culture: On European level, ETC establishes audience development strategies for theatres and gathers in a comparable format data on existing and non-existing audiences to investigate and develop common patterns and evolve relations between theatres and their public across Europe. Cross-sectorial research projects examine the use of participative formats and digital technologies in order to reach out to wider and new audiences.
- Digitalisation & Innovation: ETC incorporates and develops working methods and digital technologies as fundamental tool for theatre networking, empowers theatres to address the digital change in our society by reflecting this in artistic works as well as in a financially and environmentally responsible manner, new business models of organisational and economic structures in theatres.
- Leadership: ETC takes responsibility, gives visibility to and promotes the impact of European theatres as relevant and innovative places of reflection and exchange to foster diversity, respect and tolerance.

http://www.europeantheatre.eu

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