Mind the GAP

Mind the GAP (MTG) is a project proposal for forwarding the progress of art and cultural education with innovative development laboratories while enhancing the cultural participation of children and youth in Europe. The project answers to the objective of innovation by developing the cross-sectoral cooperation of culture and education to tackle shared European challenges regarding the well-being on children and youth.

The project consortium of four established cultural operators has recognized shared European challenges, such as decline of mental health among children and youth and continuous social division. The project conceptualizes these shared issues as gaps (gaps in the realization of all children’s right to culture, gaps in cross-sectoral cooperation of education and culture and gaps in the wider society). By recognizing these issues and counteracting to them, the project answers to the priority of social inclusion. The shared challenges manifest themselves differently in different national contexts. For that reason, all partners develop different art education laboratories. The added European value comes from sharing these methods, peer-reviewing other’s laboratories and getting feedback, all the while equipping the children and youth participating in the project with tools for enhancing their well-being and self expression.

Mind the GAP offers opportunities for networking and capacity building for a variety of professionals working in the fields of education and culture with the help of national and international events and publications of easily adaptable method guides in five European languages.

Mind the GAP also answers to the priority on audience development. All partners are known for their long-winded work for and with young audiences. By enabling all children to participate in artistic activities in a school environment, the project offers them a personal connection to arts.

Pionirski dom Centre for Youth Culture

(Partner) Ljubljana

Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Suomen Lastenkulttuurikeskusten Liitto Ry - Association of Finnish Children's Cultural Centers (leader)

Finland (EU)
Kulturtanken - Den kulturelle skolesekken Norge (partner)

Norway
Małopolski Instytut Kultury w Krakowie (partner)

Poland (EU)

Funded projects

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

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)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body