Interested parties can register by emailing Katharina Lange. You will be added to the ‘Grüne Mittagspause’ mailing list and will receive the access data for the team meeting before the event. You are invited to forward the link to interested employees at your institution.
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Past events
04.02.2025
Municipal sustainability strategy - with culture!
The city of Worms has tackled the challenges of developing a sustainability strategy for the cultural sector not only within the cultural administration and, conversely, how culture can enrich the municipal sustainability strategy. Cultural Coordinator David Maier reports on how inter-municipal cooperation in Worms has been successful and what the sustainability strategy for cultural institutions looks like - also taking into account cultural funding!
Thu, 06.03.2025
Culture as a building block of transformative environmental policy
In December 2024, Culture4Climate and the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft jointly published the policy briefing ‘Culture as a building block of transformative environmental policy’ and formulated concrete impulses for action for cultural and environmental policy. Co-author Margarethe Kreuser will present and discuss the policy briefing, particularly with a view to the Bundestag elections at the end of February. The lunch break will exceptionally take place on Thursday due to the carnival holidays!
01.04.2025
Ecological sustainability checklist for culture in Lower Saxony
Under the leadership of the Lower Saxony Foundation, the state of Lower Saxony, various local authorities and the largest foundations and regions have come together to jointly address the issue of sustainability criteria in cultural funding. The result is a checklist and a declaration by Lower Saxony's cultural sponsors. Daniela Koß from the Lower Saxony Foundation not only provides insights into the results, but also into the intra-municipal model process.
06.05.2025
Sustainable cultural community: good practice example Bavaria
Ralf Weiß from the 2N2k network presents the publication ‘Nachhaltige Kulturkommunen. Practice and perspectives of municipal cultural promotion in Bavaria’. Based on ten member cities of the Bavaria-wide network of cultural municipalities STADTKULTUR, research was carried out into how municipal cultural concepts can contribute to the promotion of sustainable urban development.
01.07.2025
Climate protection as a cross-sector consortium: a concept for cultural institutions in Schleswig-Holstein
How can the course be set for successful cooperation between cultural institutions? Schleswig-Holstein is leading the way: five major cultural institutions have joined forces, initiated a joint learning process and developed a climate protection concept for culture. This has allowed resources to be pooled and effective learning to take place. Nina Hensel and Kerrin Trimpler present the results of the project, but above all the conditions for successful cross-sector cooperation.
02.09.2025
Administration in transition: cooperation instead of departmental thinking
Many municipal challenges affect several departments at the same time. This is particularly true for sustainability issues. However, traditional ‘compartmentalisation’ often prevents coordinated action. In practice, however, rigid responsibilities often dominate. How can cross-departmental work succeed? Christiane Knirsch (Head of the Future Space Demography Office) uses the toolbox from the Future Workshop for Municipalities to demonstrate specific tools, tried-and-tested models and strategies that administrations can use to overcome sectoral boundaries and work together effectively.
07.10.2025
Finding ideas for the right funding – the SDG funding pool for local authorities
Numerous funding opportunities help cities, municipalities and districts to implement sustainability measures. However, it is not always easy to maintain an overview of the complex funding landscape, especially since sustainability is a cross-cutting issue that affects a wide range of areas. How can local authorities gain easy access to funding for sustainability? With its SDG funding pool, LAG 21 NRW aims to provide insight and an overview. Divided into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, it allows users to discover topic-specific funding for sustainability activities that also relate to culture. Mona Rybicki, Scientific Project Manager and Head of Networks at LAG 21 NRW, will provide an insight into this useful tool and answer questions.
04.11.2025
Transforming cultural institutions sustainably – introducing the Hamburg initiative Elf zu Null
The programme ‘Elf zu Null – Hamburger Museen handeln’ (Eleven to Zero – Hamburg Museums Take Action) is a pioneering project on the road to climate neutrality: eleven Hamburg museums, exhibition venues and memorial sites have joined forces and are consistently implementing the ecological transformation of their buildings. This project was also made possible by close cooperation with the cultural administration. Isgard Rhein (Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, Head of Participation Management), Kai Heitmann (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg/Elf zu Null, Controlling) and Caroline Markiewicz (Elf zu Null, Network Management).
02.12.2025
Strengthening cultural administrations – sustainable and cultural urban development with ‘Cities Ahead’
The Goethe-Institut's Cities Ahead programme supports local authorities in their cultural urban development – also in an international context. It consists of the two-day Cities Ahead Academy with workshops and expert input for administrators and cultural actors, as well as an optional open call for proposals to promote creative, participatory projects. Modules cover topics such as ecological sustainability, international networks, cultural data and cultural participation. The aim is to design cities as creative, liveable places. The programme also supports employees of the city of Essen, which is applying to become a UNESCO Creative City of Design in 2027. Laura Oehms, consultant for the UNESCO Creative City of Design application at the city of Essen, reports on the requirements for how the programme supports the city's cultural administration and on its significance in the application process.
13.01.2026
The NRWKS presents: Circular.Culture – a materials management system for North Rhine-Westphalia
Funding has been approved for the Circular.Culture project – a materials management system for North Rhine-Westphalia! The project will be able to start in January 2026 in collaboration with Neue Effizienz gGmbH, the City of Cologne and the City of Bonn (Theater Bonn). The project will run for three years, until the end of 2028. We will use the first ‘Green Lunch Break’ of the new year to present the project to you. The NRWKS will give a brief introduction to the origins of Circular.Culture and its main areas of work, introduce new team members and answer initial questions in an exchange.
03.02.2026
Shaping the future of arts and culture funding – insights from the ‘Kulturlabor Freiburg’ participation process
In March 2021, the City of Freiburg's Cultural Office initiated the ‘Kulturlabor Freiburg’ participation process with the aim of shaping the future of municipal arts and culture funding with a view to the social concern of sustainable development. The resulting strategy paper contains perspectives for practical implementation for the city, local politicians and cultural actors, and is currently being implemented. Felicia Maier, head of the Freiburg Cultural Office, will present the development, results and current status of the process and highlight challenges, particularly against the backdrop of the tight budgetary situation in local authorities. As always, there will be time for questions and discussion after a short presentation.
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