Where to Find News and Project Updates on the EVA International Website

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News and project updates on eva.ie are split across two sections: News for announcements and Projects for ongoing and past initiatives. The site's own headings list both, and the "Better Words" three-year collaboration with Eli Lilly is the kind of item that appears there. If you want to know what EVA International has just announced, start with News; if you want to understand what the organisation runs over time, start with Projects.

News: announcements and one-off updates

The News section carries short announcements rather than long-form documentation. The clearest example from the site is the headline "Better Words Three-year collaboration with Eli Lilly announced" — a partnership announcement, dated by its wording as new at the time of posting.

Use News when you want to:

  • Learn about a newly announced partnership, funder, or sponsor
  • Catch a programme change or a newly confirmed edition
  • Find a short statement you can cite with a date attached

Because these are announcements, expect brevity. A News item tells you that something is happening; it rarely explains the full programme.

Projects: ongoing and past initiatives

Projects is where the substance sits. This is the section for initiatives that run across more than one announcement — multi-year collaborations, recurring programmes, and past editions that the organisation keeps on record.

Use Projects when you want to:

  • Understand what a named initiative actually involves
  • Trace something across several years rather than a single announcement
  • Find past work rather than the latest headline

The "Better Words" collaboration is a useful test case: it is described as a three-year collaboration, which makes it a project by nature. A three-year partnership generates one announcement but belongs in Projects for anyone who wants the fuller picture.

How the two sections work together

What you want Where to look What you get
The latest announcement News A short, dated statement
What an initiative involves Projects Context and scope
A partnership's full span Projects (with News for the launch) Multi-year framing
Past editions and programmes Projects Archived initiatives

The practical pattern: find the announcement in News, then move to Projects for the detail. If a project is still running, Projects is the section that stays current; News only marks its milestones.

A note on the 41st edition

The 41st edition of EVA International ran across Limerick city from 29 August to 26 October 2025, with a participating artist list that includes Noor Abuarafeh, Reza Afisina, Marwa Arsanios, Bíodh Orm Anocht (Seán Hannan, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Kiera O'Toole), Ana Bravo-Pérez, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, Éireann and I (Joselle Ntumba and Beulah Ezeugo), and Family Connection, among others. Once an edition closes, its record belongs with Projects rather than News — so if you are looking for it after October 2025, check Projects first.

Getting to the right section

EVA International is Ireland's biennial, and eva.ie is organised around the two headings above. Rather than searching the whole site, go directly to the section that matches your question:

  • Something just happened? News.
  • Something runs over time? Projects.
  • Something already finished? Projects.

That single distinction resolves most navigation questions on the site.