Lund is an ambitious city when it comes to the development, renewal and expansion of its cultural life. The “city of ideas” have produced both a cultural strategy for the city authorities to use as a guide for improving cultural activities in a municipality which has already been voted for being the best place to live in Sweden(!). Lund has also produced a monumental “bid” as the application in the competition for becoming European Capital of Culture 2014. The city has invested a lot in this complex development work, started in 2000.

Out of four Swedish cities - Gävle, Lund, Umeå and Uppsala - the selection panel have now appointed Lund and Umeå to the final round. The jury is composed of six Swedish jurors and seven from the rest of Europe.

The application should function as working material and inspiration for the more in-depth work which will begin in January 2009, if Lund goes on to the next stage in the selection process. That is when the fundamental and strategic guiding principles that have been set out will begin to be turned into concrete projects and programmes.

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