Third Monitoring Report, 2022
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Description
This report follows the virtual meeting on 22 November 2022 between the panel of ECOC Experts and the team of Elefsina, one of the three European Capitals of Culture (ECoC) in 2023. Elefsina was nominated as the European Capital of Culture 2021 in Greece by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport on 9 December 2016 based on the panel’s selection report. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and upon a joint request by the Ministry, the City of Elefsina and the 2023 Eleusis team, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU adopted on 23 December 2020 a decision postponing the ECoC year in Elefsina from 2021 to 20234. In line with this decision, there was a new second monitoring meeting organised in May 2021, which followed the first and second monitoring meetings on 10 October 2017 and 4 June 2019 as well as two city visits by panel members on 5 July 2018 and on 24 October 2019. The current report from the third meeting is addressed to 2023 ELEUSIS and has been published on the European Commission's website. In this report, the ECOC Experts Panel found that the conditions for awarding the Melina Mercouri Prize are met and recommended to the European Commission that the prize be awarded to 2023 ELEUSIS. The language of the document is english and has been translated into Greek.
Year of Publication
2022
Copyright
Eleusis 2023
