About the project
CAFÉ: Redefining Café Houses as unique European Cultural Heritage
Café houses are known for providing a space where patrons can linger for extended periods, fostering a sense of community and often attracting writers, artists, philosophers, and intellectuals.
The main focus of the project is on the heritage of the European café house culture, which has defined the Enlightenment period and most of the „European values” are routed in the heritage of it. The project aims to revitalize this fading culture through artists, building on its heritage with artists, whom were the leading force of social change till the beginning of the 20th century. The project not only aims to go back to the routes of the current Europe, but also to revisit the period when artists were the leading force of social change, defining many of the contemporary values. As Europe is facing new challenges can revisit this well-established methodology and built on its merit to use art again to find answers on our challenges again.
PROJECT COORDINATOR
HADIK COFFEE HOUSE
Hadik Coffee House is one of the legendary grand cafés of Budapest, which was restored to its original splendor in recent years. The café originally opened in 1911 and it became popular soon. Famous writers and journalists visited the place and some of them like Karinthy, Móricz and Kosztolányi (famous writers) became regulars here. Even the Oscar winner director László Nemes Jeles wrote the screenplay for Son of Saul in Hadik. In the basement of the Hadik café the Szatyor bar and gallery is located, which name is originating from Karinthy.
Modern and classical: Hadik and Szatyor. The classical Hadik represents the old coffee houses’ spirit with its furniture and decoration and whilst the Szatyor is the centre of modernity with it’s amazing interior design and art works. Over the past ten years,they have organized hundreds of cultural events, exhibitions, concerts, conferences, book fairs, book launches and literature classes. Their mission is to preserve and carry forward the coffee house culture and tradition.
PROJECT PARTNERS
ECCOM
European Centre for Cultural Organisation and Management (IT) Founded in 1995, ECCOM focuses on the role of culture in contemporary society as a tool to promote audience development, social inclusion and lifelong learning through an interdisciplinary approach to cultural heritage. It has a long-established expertise in analysis, consultancy and research for public administrations and private organisations, and leading on European and internationally-facing projects in cooperation with experts and professionals in the field of culture. ECCOM has been a coordinator and a partner in many EU-funded projects, and it was also a partner of the Study on Audience Development, delivered for the European Commission in 2015. ECCOM is a member of Culture Action Europe (CAE); the International Council of Museums (ICOM), promoted by UNESCO; the International Association of Women’s Museums (IAWM) and Disorderly Women: The Alliance of Women Leaders in Culture.
ZRC SAZU
The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) was founded in 1981. Since that time, it has established itself in the Slovenian public space as the leading scientific-research institute, working primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and selected disciplines within the natural sciences. Today it is composed of eighteen institutes (with more than 250 researchers). One of the most important missions of a public scientific-research institute is the regular presentation of its research results to the public. ZRC SAZU performs this aspect of its mission by holding events in its public spaces, such as the ZRC Atrij where it hosts the annual event entitled Generations of Science. In the decades of its existence, the ZRC Atrij has become a fixture in Ljubljana’s cultural, social, and urban life.
In addition to its eighteen institutes, ZRC SAZU also includes the publishing unit Publishing house: Založba ZRC, which publishes both academic and non-academic books, and a large number of academic journals. Založba ZRC also operates the Azil Bookshop, which specializes in literature in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. The bookshop was renovated in 2021.
KEA EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
KEA European Affairs is an international policy design research centre specialised in culture, creative industries and sport. Since 1999, KEA has been a pioneer in the field of culture economics and creative industry policy. Based in Brussels, KEA’s mission is to provide policy advice to make territories, organisations and people more aware of their cultural and creative resources to unlock the potential of culture for sustainable economic and social development. KEA builds on a unique mix of expertise in culture economics and management, public policy, copyright law and Intellectual property, communication and public engagement strategies.
Over the years KEA developed and successfully managed projects: through these assignments, KEA has acquired an unparalleled expertise in mapping, analysing and identifying best case studies, strategies and initiatives from the grassroots level to EU-wide policies to provide strategic advice to its clients using a co-creation approach and methods.
With 20 years of experience working with EU institutions, KEA has extensive experience in presenting research results in an understandable way also for non-specialists, including policy makers, businesses, creative entrepreneurs and civil society organisations from the cultural field. Furthermore, KEA successfully manages the growing “b.creative” network including more than 2.500 contacts of professionals of the culture and creative industries including entrepreneurs, hubs, fab-labs, living labs in more than 100 countries worldwide.
USEFUL RESOURCES
Best Practices Collection This collection of best practices is based on responses the ZRC SAZU team gathered either inwriting or in person from a number of European cafes (Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Austria,
and Germany) which were contacted directly by the Café project and additionally detected through fieldwork.
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