The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (formerly the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency), or EACEA, is an executive agency of the European Commission located in Brussels, Belgium. It manages parts of the European Commission's funding programmes in education, culture, media, sport, youth, citizenship and humanitarian aid. EACEA has been operational since January 2006.
EACEA is supervised byâ¯six Directorates-General of the European Commission:
Under the EU long-term budget for 2021âÂÂ2027, EACEA manages parts of the following funding programmes:
Additionally, EACEA supervises theâ¯Eurydice networkâ¯(producingâ¯analysis and comparable data on education systems and policies in Europe)â¯and theâ¯Youth Wikiâ¯(an online encyclopedia of national youth policies across Europe). EACEA also continues toâ¯manage projects funded during the 2014âÂÂ2020 programming period. As of 1 February 2023, the acting director of EACEA is Sophie Beernaerts.