Cross-Border Cooperation for Museums
The Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) has published the toolkit ‘Cross-Border Cooperation for Museums: from a Project Idea to a Successful Proposal’.
As a European network, it is NEMO’s core task to encourage and enable museums to operate across borders, learn from each other and exchange expertise. This is why NEMO has decided to develop a Toolkit to help museums and museum associations across Europe to better access EU funding and increase their international activities.
The Toolkit gives an overview of the benefits of international cooperation and the existing funding opportunities, with a strong focus on EU funding programmes. It can also be thought of as a step-by-step guide to help museums prepare a successful proposal and build a strong consortium of partners, providing extensive expertise and information about the requirements that museums should aim for when engaging in a European cooperation project. It includes interviews with key organisations across Europe that are active at European level sharing their learning, insights and experiences of being partners in European cooperation projects.
The Toolkit is addressed to two main target groups:
- Museums: to show them the added value of cooperation for their internationalisation, learning and training activities.
- Museum associations: to help them advocate for their member museums to make more use of EU (or other) funding programmes, increasing museum sector professionalisation through cooperation and awareness.
It is NEMO’s aim to strengthen museums’ cross-border cooperation at large in future and this Toolkit will help museums to take this first or further step towards working with and learning from their colleagues in Europe