The goals of this study were: to provide private foundations with a quantitative and qualitative analysis of support for cultural cooperation in Europe; to supply input necessary for designing a framework/environment for future action; and to offer suggestions on possible future partners. Based on a series of interviews and survey responses, the report proposes that foundations create an open environment - an issued based mileu that would promote all forms of international cultural cooperation. This space would be mainly devoted to nurturing and supporting ground breaking processes and building conditions for cultural cooperation rather than focusing on planning policies or implementing programmes. Different in nature to the role of public authorities, foundations in Europe can support boundary-breaking and cross art form of experiment work which does not easily fit into inflexible categories of traditional public policies.