EURAN · European Art Club Network
CURRENT INVITATION · HORIZON EUROPE · 1 DECEMBER 2026
EURAN invites established European art clubs and art-interest associations to explore a clearly defined role in a Horizon Europe New European Bauhaus proposal. Their particular contribution is not the purchase of art. It is the knowledge, continuity and local connections of an organised community.
A club or association whose members know their city, town or neighbourhood and can open a dialogue with local residents, municipal authorities or relevant institutions.
We are especially interested in organisations willing to help identify how public space is experienced, used, shared and improved. A municipality or other suitably authorised site partner is a separate requirement, not something a club can replace.
Tell us the organisation, city and country, approximate active membership, an appropriate contact, existing municipal or community relationships and any relevant neighbourhood or public-space context.
At this stage, a short written indication is sufficient. No architectural study, unpaid proposal or commitment to a consortium is requested.
Indicative possible project allocation: EURAN is considering up to €100,000 for a selected eligible organisation where a substantive, costed research-participation role is agreed. This is an indicative planning figure, not an offer or award ; it is subject to call eligibility, justified costs, competitive selection, a successful proposal and an executed consortium arrangement.
Participation is exploratory. An expression of interest creates neither a funded position nor automatic consortium membership. Clubs contribute as organised citizen communities; permanent-neighbourhood demonstrators require appropriate real sites, authorities and permissions. EURAN is a for-profit professional enterprise, not a vendor of cultural programmes to art clubs.
01 · EUROPEAN NETWORK
EURAN is developing a European architecture connecting established art clubs, art-interest associations, Friends organisations and other organised cultural communities. The objective is not to replace their existing programmes, purchasing or local identity. It is to add a European exchange layer.
Target distinction: this network is for member communities of people interested in art — not professional associations whose primary constituency is artists.
02 · 1,000 CULTURAL POINTS
A Cultural Point is a local activation node connecting an organised art-interested community with a real place where European cultural activity can be developed and presented.
1,000 Cultural Points is a European scale objective, not a claim that the first pilot finances 1,000 locations. The initial projects are designed to prove a method that can be replicated progressively.
03 · HOW IT CAN WORK
An existing art-interest organisation provides members, local knowledge and a trusted community structure.
The local organisation identifies one or more appropriate real locations: public, cultural, civic, corporate or neighbourhood-based.
Participating communities contribute and receive artistic content, curatorial themes, interpretation or other cultural material across borders.
Members can participate in selecting, interpreting and presenting the exchange rather than remaining a passive audience.
Each club remains locally autonomous and can connect its membership to residents, institutions, municipalities, companies and other communities.
A tested protocol can extend the model from selected pilots to dozens, hundreds and eventually potentially 1,000 European Cultural Points.
04 · FIRST PILOT
The first operational model is deliberately concrete: one established Art Club is connected with a second Art Club in another European country. Each community works with a focused selection of existing artworks and involves its members in selection, interpretation, presentation and exchange.
EURAN structures and documents the process as the European Art Club Exchange Method™ so that one tested Cultural Point can become a replicable European model: 1 → 10 → 100 → 1,000.
05 · PARTICIPATION
EURAN will select organisations according to community capacity, geographic relevance, local ecosystem, potential locations and suitability for specific European projects. An expression of interest does not create automatic project or consortium status.
Priority is given to organisations that can connect their members with a wider local community — municipalities, cultural institutions, companies, universities, neighbourhood organisations or other established structures.
06 · EUROPEAN OPPORTUNITIES
Earlier pilot route, retained as a reference. This call closed on 30 September 2026; it is not an active application route. Connect and Co-create had different eligibility and partnership conditions.
Earlier performing-arts call, retained as a reference. It closed on 22 October 2026. Ordinary visual-art-club membership alone did not establish performing-arts eligibility.
Current European research-partner outreach. Art clubs may contribute as organised citizen communities within a substantially broader neighbourhood transformation consortium, alongside municipalities, spatial-design practitioners and research partners. Participation and eligible activities are subject to call rules.
07 · EURAN
EURAN developed extensive experience with Scandinavian art clubs and organised art communities from the late 1980s onward. The next phase is European: a permanent exchange network supported by call-specific pilots where the programme fit is real.
08 · TWO DISTINCT ROUTES
Art clubs and art-interest associations can contribute information about their membership, local community links and potential public-space research participation. A written expression of interest is free; it does not create funding, a meeting, a contract or consortium membership.
Municipalities, developers, maritime operators and institutional clients may separately commission EURAN for art-driven spatial design, architectural and urban research, artistic integration or COS™ strategic consultancy. These are paid professional engagements governed by EURAN TPA™, not services sold to art clubs as cultural programmes.