we are more is a Europe-wide long-term arts advocacy campaign (2010-2013) set up by Culture Action Europe and developed in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation. The main goal of the campaign is to contribute to a strengthened recognition of the role and importance of arts and culture in the development of our European societies. Collective efforts and initiatives are directed towards policy-makers at local, regional and national level, as well as towards an overall professional development and mobilisation for the cultural sector.

The campaign is launched now in order to influence the next EU budget negotiations for the 2014-2020 period.  All forthcoming initiatives will focus on re-thinking the place of culture in our societies, in a better elaborated partnership mode with other sectors, in a collaborative approach and experimenting with new artistic, intercultural, social and economic models.

These are some of the things you could do to increase the visibility of the campaign:

• Promote the campaign in your email signature and use a version of the logo with the web address written in it (25 KB). Click here to download

• Give visibility to the campaign by placing the campaign logo/banner on your own printed material and website. Click here to download

• Give regular updates about the campaign through your individual and/or organisation’s communication channels (such as newsletters, Facebook, Twitter etc.). Join the Facebook Page ‘Act for Culture in Europe’ and follow Culture Action Europe on Twitter.

• If you know interesting initiatives, send an email to: campaign@wearemore.eu!

If you want to take your support one step further, one of the things you can do is:

• Write articles and/or blog entries under the campaign umbrella message and refer to the campaign.
• Organise a local, regional or national event/debate based on the campaign message.
• Organise a local, regional or national advocacy training session. The advocacy toolkit that will be published on the campaign website in spring 2011 will provide inspiration for such events.

Post at this forum your sincere opinion about the campaign:

• How do lobbying and advocacy efforts reflect on cultural research?
• Do we connect sufficiently the results of research works with lobbying and advocacy campaigns on culture?
• Do cultural operators use results of cultural research to give strong arguments and to justify well their lobbying efforts?
• Do you believe in the success of the campaign? Why?
• Do you plan to organize a debate, write an article, initiate a research connected with the aims of the campaign? Post information here.