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| EUNIC IS A PARTNERSHIP OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR CULTURE, ENGAGED BEYOND THEIR NATIONAL BORDERS AND OPERATING WITH A DEGREE OF AUTONOMY FROM THEIR GOVERNMENTS.
The EUNIC membership currently includes organisations from 19 EU countries and it is intended that this will grow in time to include national institutes for culture from all the member states. The total operating budget of the current EUNIC membership is 2.2 billion euro a year.
The purpose of EUNIC is to create effective partnerships and networks between the participating organisations, to improve and promote cultural diversity and understanding between European societies, and to strengthen international dialogue and co-operation with countries outside Europe.
EUNIC operates at two complementary levels:
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The first level consists of the heads or director-generals of the national institutions.
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The second level comprises clusters of national institutions for culture, based in cities across Europe, co-operating together in common projects.
EUNIC Brussels represents both the first and second levels.
With the resources of these institutions working more closely together, EUNIC will have an impressive reach: its members have more than 50,000 staff, working out of 8,000 offices, in more than 200 countries. And it is set to grow, with the intention that membership will include the national institutions from all 27 EU member states.
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