CARE – Culture for Mental Health

The CARE project’s goal is to mobilise the potential of arts and cultural experiences to enhance mental health and well-being of youth, people in their working age and people with disabilities. Stakeholders from culture, health, education and business collaborate to create innovative approaches proposing individual and structural solutions to increase health and well-being through access and participation in culture across Europe. The issue is pertinent now, as more than 85 million citizens in the EU are affected by mental health problems.

Key Activities:
– LEARN: Capacity building in cultural and partner sectors (health, social care, education, business) through training sessions, expert panels, workshops, and counselling. Establishes a community of practice via Arts and Health Think Tank and festival makers’ work group. Develop a digital catalogue of artworks on health and well-being.
– INNOVATE: Arts and Health Social Innovation Laboratories focusing on Youth Mental Health, Culture and Work-related Well-being, and Culture on Prescription and Accessibility for people with disabilities. Guidelines and toolkits support transnational transfer of piloted models.
– SHARE: Engagement, Networking, Advocacy – organises 6 CultureForHealth Mobile Hubs, a travelling festival-like event across European cities (Brussels, Cluj, Ljubljana, Vienna, Riga, Vilnius). Boosts awareness, advocacy, and cross-sector exchange and showcases relevant artworks. Advocacy informs policy recommendations presented to local, national and EU decision-makers.

An international Culture and Well-being Forum and EU-wide communication campaigns aid in result dissemination.

CARE directly benefits the mental health and well-being of 1500+ individuals, engaging them in participatory art activities and creative processes. Operating in 9 countries, involving 1260+ professionals, 300 institutions, and raising awareness among 1 million people, CARE contributes to improved mental health and well-being.

Asociacija, Association of Arts and Culture NGOs and Freelancers

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Asociatia Centrul Cultural Clujean (leader)

Romania (EU)
ARTS for HEALTH AUSTRIA (partner)

Austria (EU)
Culture Action Europe (partner)

Belgium (EU)
European Festivals Association (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Palais des Beaux Arts (partner)

Belgium (EU)

Funded projects

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)