Supported projects
EMPACT - Empathy and Sustainability
Maribor Art Gallery (Partner) In ProgressBook in the Park
Malinc Publishing House (Partner) In ProgressMIRROR - Mirroring the World: European Literary Lifeline
Goga Publishing House (Partner) In ProgressRECOVERING FREEDOM (RE-FREE)
Mladinska knjiga Publishing House (Leader) In ProgressIs this us?
Miš Publishing House (Leader) In ProgressLandscapes of Bibliodiversity
Malinc Publishing House (Leader) In ProgressRead, share, enjoy (RSE)
KUD Sodobnost International (Leader) In ProgressREALIS - Reading and Listening to Contemporary European Literature
Goga Publishing House (Leader) In ProgressFuture = NOW! A Youth Manifesto (FuN)
Glej Theatre (Leader) In ProgressPoets of today - voices of tomorrow (POT-VOT)
Art and Well-being (Leader) In ProgressPerforming Gender - Dancing In Your Shoes
Mesto žensk – City of Women (Partner) In ProgressIn from the Margins
MGLC – Mednarodni grafični likovni center (Partner) In Progress(NON)ALIGNED MOVEMENTS Strenghtening contemporary dance in Western Balkans
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia (Partner) In ProgressFootprints
Druga godba Ljubljana (Partner) In ProgressSMOTIES – Human Cities. Crative works with small and remote places
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (Partner) In ProgressSHARE; creative powers of art
Exodos Institute (Leader) In ProgressIdentity on the Line
Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia (Partner) In ProgressClassics in the Graphic Novel: A pilot model of new high school culture education through graphic novels
Slovenian Theatre Institute (SLOGI) (Leader) In ProgressArt and Well-being
Umetnostna galerija Maribor (Partner)
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- Visual Arts
- Culture
- 333.334 EUR
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200.000 EUR
- October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021 Completed

The project goal is to develop new processes, activities and networks to support cultural institutions in partnering with stakeholders from health, science and urban development to create innovative approaches, engage new audiences, and raise awareness on the challenges that urban dwelling and a fast paced life pose to the physical, emotional and mental health, by exploring the potential of arts to enhance individual and community well-being. It involves three artistic partners and one research institution from four countries in a work programme that mainly benefits cultural players and audiences in: Belgium, Romania and Slovenia, with the following objectives:
O1. To highlight the importance of health and emotional and mental well-being in contemporary society.
O2. To support cultural and urban actors to take an active role promoting culture and well-being in their communities.
O3. To facilitate a better understanding of the ways in which culture and cultural participation contribute to individual and collective well-being.
O4. To support European artistic co-operation and mobility of artists and of artworks benefitting health and psychological well-being.
O5. To innovate and pilot multidisciplinary and participatory artistic and cultural interventions that contribute to individual and community well-being.
O6. To increase access and participation of various groups to artistic events and processes that enhance well-being.
Project activities include capacity building and advocacy, delivered through 3 artists and scientists in dialogue workshops and two international forums; research and the establishing of an Arts & Well-being Think. It implements an experimental artistic programme: “Space. Co-Creation. Access”, that consists of: 3 spaces for arts, body and mind, 12 new artistic productions with relevance to well-being and 3 cultural prescriptions pilot projects, involving around 150 artists and other professionals and an audience of 30000 in Brussels, Cluj, and Maribor.
Foreign producers in the supported project
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Asociatia Centrul Cultural Clujean (leader)
Romania (EU) -
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (partner)
Italy (EU) -
Palais des Beaux Arts (partner)
Belgium (EU)