An unmissable resource centre of cultural and artistic innovation in Europe, Banlieues d’Europe brings together 300 international active partners and 4000 contacts in Europe. The network is constituted of cultural actors, artists, militants, social workers, local councillors and researchers. Their joint objective is to exchange practices and information and to get away from isolation in order to valorise cultural action projects in deprived neighbourhoods with excluded communities.
 
KEY DATES :
1990 : Origin of the Banlieues d’Europe network in Lorraine under the impetus of Jean Hurstel, Founder and President.
1996 : The Banlieues d’Europe network office was set up in Strasbourg and actions multiplied; setting up of the network, European meetings, seminars, training courses and publication of meeting reports and other works centred on cultural democracy.
2004 : Creation of Banlieues d’Europ’Est, Romania, by one of the members of the network, Silvia Cazacu. The association aims to facilitate the setting up of a network of cultural actors in Eastern European countries.
2007 : Banlieues d’Europe moved its offices to Lyon; a new space for work, exchanges and new activities, European rendez-vous for local actors, a resource centre, etc.