Sarah Bradley,2025

Culture

European Union Film Festival - Every year, the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) — our longest-running cultural activity — gives Canadians from coast to coast, including Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, a chance to experience Europe's diverse and rich film heritage. Whether highlighting historic events, political subjects or personal dilemmas, European films are intellectually stimulating and culturally engaging.

European Union Cultural Fair - In the summer, the EU Delegation to Canada organizes the EU Cultural Fair in collaboration with the EU countries diplomatic missions in the Ottawa Capital Region. This celebration offers Canadians a unique opportunity to experience the rich and diverse cultures of the European Union countries for a day.

Nuit Blanche – Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s annual all-night celebration of contemporary art, transforming public spaces into artistic landscapes. In 2025, the EU Delegation partnered with OCAD University for a cinematic projection.

Christmas concert – Every December, the EU Delegation to Canada coordinates the annual European Union Christmas Concert in Ottawa. The concert showcases European Christmas Carols from member states performed by local choirs.

Youth opportunities 

Schuman challenge - Organized by the EU Delegation in Canada, the Schuman challenge encourages university students to engage in pressing global debates and explore the shared values and interests of the EU and Canada. The top teams are awarded a fully funded study trip to Brussels to visit EU institutions meet policymakers and EU officials. 

Young Journalists Fellowship - The EU-Canada Young Journalist Fellowship recognizes outstanding journalistic talent among young Canadians. Since 2001, three candidates have been selected every year to participate in a fully-funded week-long study tour to experience the EU institutions, the Canadian Mission to the EU, and media outlets in Brussels.

Human rights

Pride - In the summer, the EU Delegation in Canada stands as a Human Rights partner of major Pride events in Canada. In our engagements, we reaffirm a clear EU support for advancing and defending LGBTQI+ rights, fostering inclusive dialogue, and building stronger partnerships with Canadian and international communities.

Climate 

Shoreline Clean-up - For the EU Climate Diplomacy Weeks in September, the EU Delegation in Canada organises a shoreline clean-up event in Ottawa with EU diplomatic missions, community organizations, high schools, and universities.

EU

The Policy Dialogues Support Facility (PDSF) supports on-the-ground cooperation initiatives between the European Union and Canada in all policy areas covered under the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). 

Since 2019, the project brings new ideas on policy cooperation to life either by developing knowledge products, including studies, webinars and podcasts or by organising exchange and networking events such as high-level events, workshops and technical meetings.

Foreign information manipulation and interference 

Since 2022, the Policy Dialogues Support Facility supports a series of workshops, panels and a studies on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI). 

Key deliverables:

• In 2024, the project worked with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung to deliver a study on lessons from the 2024 European elections. It presented offered recommendations and lessons learned, and provided a comparative perspective on tools to address FIMI.
• In 2025, the Policy Dialogues Support Facility partnered with Toronto Metropolitan University’s DAIS during the Democracy Exchange summit to organise workshops and panels on disinformation, generative AI, and democratic resilience. 

Critical Minerals Value Chain

Since 2022, the Policy Dialogues Support Facility works on advancing the Strategic Partnership on Critical Minerals. A key milestone was the study EU–Canada Initiative on Skills in the CRM Value Chain, carried out in 2024–25 with Natural Resources Canada. 

Sustainable Agriculture

The Policy Dialogues Support Facility promotes the CETA Agriculture Dialogue with the EU Directorate General for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in the CETA Agriculture Dialogue, fostering exchanges on sustainability, climate action, and innovation in farming.

A key event was the Agriculture Stakeholders’ Conference, held in December 2023 in Brussels which was summarized in a final report “Potential Paths Forward”. 

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