The Forum

The Forum on EU-UK Cultural & Media Relations is an independent and non-partisan pan-European grassroots initiative founded in September 2024. We are based in London and Brussels.

Our aim is to improve the cultural and media relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom with a bottom-up approach. We believe that the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) – in the UK often referred to as “creative industries” – are crucial to the political, societal and economic relations between the EU and the UK.

The Forum organises policy and advocacy conferences uniting CCS organisations from the EU and the UK to provide a platform for the exchange of experience and best practices, and to co-create ambitious policy recommendations addressing common needs. The Forum represents such needs among official EU and UK stakeholders and steers common advocacy efforts.

The inaugural Forum meeting took place in October 2025 in advance of a meeting of the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly. Currently, the Forum is focused on getting the UK back into the EU’s Creative Europe programme.

Our Forum should not be confused with the related initiative Forum on EU–UK Cultural & Media Research, a Community Interest Company (CIC) currently in the process of registration in the United Kingdom, which carries out research, information and other public-benefit activities. While the two initiatives cooperate and share research-based knowledge, they are legally and organisationally distinct.