The European Coalition for Cultural Diversity (CEDC) is an organisation grouping 11 European national coalitions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and Turkey, which represent professional cultural organisations from several sectors such as the audiovisual, books, music, performing arts, visual arts and multimedia sectors.
The objective of this alliance aims to keep European institutions informed of the expectations and needs of creators and culture professionals, not only with regards to the UNESCO Convention, but also on subject related to culture and under European competence, particularly trade negotiations.