European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education

The Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for the European Union's policies on culture, education, audiovisual media, youth, sport and multilingualism, including programmes such as Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps.

Responsibilities

The committee is responsible for the cultural aspects of the European Union, including cultural heritage, cultural and linguistic diversity, artistic creation and cultural exchanges. It also deals with Union education policy, including school education, higher education, lifelong learning and the European Schools system.

Its remit includes:

cultural heritage, cultural and linguistic diversity, artistic creation and cultural exchanges; education policy, including school education, higher education and lifelong learning; audiovisual policy and the cultural and educational aspects of the information society; youth policy; the development of sport and leisure policy; information and media policy, including media freedom and pluralism within its areas of competence; and cooperation with non-EU countries and international organisations in the fields of culture and education.

The committee participates in the adoption and scrutiny of programmes including Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps.

Chairs

The following table lists the chairs of the committee since 2009.

Name Political group Member state Took office Left office Doris Pack EPP Germany 2009 2014 Silvia Costa S&D Italy 2014 2019 Sabine Verheyen EPP Germany 2019 2024 Nela Riehl Greens/EFA Germany 2024 Incumbent

Members

10th Parliament, 2024–2029

The committee consists of 30 full members. Its current composition is shown below, with the chair and vice-chairs indicated in italics.

European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Poland, Vice-Chair Sunčana Glavak, Croatia Esteban González Pons, Spain Eleonora Meleti, Greece Giusi Princi, Italy Manuela Ripa, Germany Viktor Weisz, Hungary Milan Zver, Slovenia Emma Rafowicz, France, Vice-Chair Gabriela Firea, Romania Hannes Heide, Austria Sabrina Repp, Germany Sandro Ruotolo, Italy Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Poland Lara Magoni, Italy Marco Squarta, Italy Ivaylo Valchev, Bulgaria Hristo Petrov, Bulgaria, Vice-Chair Laurence Farreng, France Eugen Tomac, Romania Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Catherine Griset, France Afroditi Latinopoulou, Greece Antonín Staněk, Czechia Annamária Vicsek, Hungary Nela Riehl, Germany, Chair Diana Riba i Giner, Spain, Vice-Chair Mario Furore, Italy Nikos Pappas, Greece Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Hungary Non-Inscrits Nikolaos Anadiotis, Greece

Substitute members

The committee's substitute members are listed below.

European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Ioan-Rareș Bogdan, Romania Nina Carberry, Ireland Pilar del Castillo Vera, Spain Loukas Fourlas, Cyprus Sandra Kalniete, Latvia Łukasz Kohut, Poland Hélder Sousa Silva, Portugal Sabine Verheyen, Germany Isilda Gomes, Portugal Maria Guzenina, Finland Aurore Lalucq, France Nikos Papandreou, Greece Marcos Ros Sempere, Spain Nicola Zingaretti, Italy Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Croatia Chiara Gemma, Italy Guillaume Peltier, France Bernard Guetta, France Nikola Minchev, Bulgaria Brigitte van den Berg, Netherlands Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Gerolf Annemans, Belgium Elisabeth Dieringer, Austria Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Spain Tiago Moreira de Sá, Portugal Erik Marquardt, Germany Benedetta Scuderi, Italy Carolina Morace, Italy Anthony Smith, France Marc Jongen, Germany Non-Inscrits Sibylle Berg, Germany

Research support

The committee's work is supported by the research services of the European Parliament. These services provide studies, briefings and other analyses concerning culture, education, media, youth, sport and the implementation of EU programmes in those fields.

Publications prepared for the committee are made available through its online database of supporting analyses and through the European Parliament's Think Tank.

European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education

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