Projektbeskrivningar och deltagande organisationer

Projektbeskrivningar och deltagande organisationer


Större samarbetsprojekt

NE©XT Accelerator, EU-stöd: 1 027 114,41 euro

Projektledare: European League of Institutes of the Arts, NL
Partners:

- STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, SE

- ART ACADEMY OF LATVIA, LV
- ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DES CONSERVATOIRES, ACADEMIES DE MUSIQUE ET MUSIKHOCHSCHULEN, BE
- BEHEER-EN EXPLOITATIEMAATSCHAPPIJ WESTERGASFABRIEK B.V., NL
- CILECT - CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE LIASION DES ECOLES DE CINEMA ET DE TELEVISION, FR
- CITE DU DESIGN-ECOLE SUPERIEURE D'ART ET DE DESIGN, FR
- CUMULUS, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OF ART, DESIGN AND MEDIA, FI
- ECOLE SUPÉRIEURE EUROPÉENNE D'ART DE BRETAGNE, FR
- INWEST EG, DE
- Palazzo Spinelli, IT
- RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG, DE
- STICHTING FOTOGRAFIE MUSEUM AMSTERDAM, NL
- TAIDEYLIOPISTO, FI
- THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, UK
- THE ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND, UK
- UNIVERSITETI I ARTEVE, AL
- UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER, UK
- UNIVERZITET UMETNOSTI U BEOGRADU, RS
- UNIWERSYTET ARTYSTYCZNY W POZNANIU, PL

NE©XT Accelerator: Creates transnational entry routes into international careers for generations of talented emerging artists, enabling them to make a living from creative production; Makes cultural/creative incubators more entrepreneurial, innovative and transnational; Boosts transnational mobility and entrepreneurial learning opportunities for arts graduates, art educators and incubator leaders; Celebrates cutting-edge artistic creation, transcending disciplines, genres, media and audiences; Connects young artists with cultural/creative players, sectors and businesses; Promotes national and European cultural and creative sectors as an engine of economic and social innovation. It makes the 3 editions of the NEU/NOW festival – showcasing the best work of recent art graduates – a major European cultural event. Collaboration with Prix Europa Berlin, Foam Photography Museum, Southbank London and Art Basel results in new arenas for NEU/NOW artists to show their work. It develops a Digital Support Interface, providing NEU/NOW alumni with unique opportunities to display work, drawing attention from international curators, directors, businesspeople and other cultural players.

The Incubator Programme researches cultural/creative incubators, tests innovative models and initiates a Support Network, making incubating practices innovative and transnational. Recurring project themes: ‘international career training’, ‘innovative incubating’, ‘cultural entrepreneurship’, ‘new business models’, ‘access to finance and crowd funding and ‘new ways of looking at creativity and audiences’ are translated into training formats, building an attractive learning and exchange environment. The project is led by the European League of Institutes of the Arts - ELIA, together with European higher arts education organisations and partners from 14 countries, representing over 1,000 institutions and one million emerging artists. Key events will take place in Basel, Florence, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Creative Lenses, EU-stöd: 1 964 950 euro

Projektledare: Kiinteistö Oy Kaapelitalo, FI
Partners:

- CITY OF LUND, SE
- TRANS EUROPE HALLES, SE
- ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE SUD-EST, IT
- INFORMAL EUROPEAN THEATRE MEETING AISBL, BE
- KOSICE - EUROPSKE HLAVNE MESTO KULTURY 2013, N.O., SK
- ODC NON-PROFIT THEATER COMPANY, GR
- OLIVEARTE LIMITED, UK
- STICHTING P60, NL
- THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON, UK
- TRUC SPHERIQUE, SK
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA BASILICATA, IT
- VILLAGE UNDERGROUND LIMITED, UK

Creative Lenses is a four-year project dedicated to strengthening and developing the business capacity and sustainability of European cultural and creative players, enabling them to better deliver innovative, exciting and relevant arts and cultural programmes, deepening their relationship with current and new audiences alike. This objective will be achieved by providing cultural players with skills, competencies and know-how, which will reinforce

the sector’s professionalisation and capacity to: operate trans-nationally; allow for greater programme success and impact; promote long-term sustainability with the possibility
for the next generation of artists and cultural workers to increase innovation and reach more audiences, attracting increasing numbers of citizens to participate in culture. Creative Lenses will be delivered by a partnership of 13 cultural centres, universities, city authorities, networks and cultural agencies that have the combined expertise and capacity to produce a project that will have lasting effects on the European cultural landscape.
This will be achieved by a process that includes research, training, Action Learning, capacity building and international networking, resulting in 21 workshops, 2 Cultural Conferences,
8 forums, 8 artistic productions, a book, a ‘developing successful business models for culture toolkit’ and a unique digital benchmarking tool for the sector. The legacy of the project will be the know-how, tools and support mechanisms required for the European cultural sector to effectively respond to the current realities and future possibilities of artists and cultural workers.
In these times of challenge and uncertainty, Creative Lenses is a concentrated attempt to devise new ways of working that will provide cultural organisations with the possibility to move into the future with confidence, allowing for the continued development of arts and culture throughout Europe.


Follow the Vikings, EU-stöd: 1 960 000 euro

Projektledare: Shetland Amenity Trust, UK
Partners:
- UPPLANDS VÄSBY KOMMUN, SE
- AB BENGTSKÄR, FI
- CONCELLO DE CATOIRA, ES
- DUBLINIA LTD., IE
- HOLBÆK MUSEUM, DK
- ICELAND SAGA TRAIL ASSOCIATION, IS
- KARMØY KOMMUNE, OPPVEKST-OG KULTURETATEN, NO
- NATIONALMUSEET, DK
- STIFTELSEN MUSEUM NORD, NO
- STIFTELSEN SØR-TROMS MUSEUM, NO
- VIKING ROUTE VESTFOLD BISON TELT INTERNATIONAL ANS, NO
- WATERFORD TREASURES AT THE GRANARY LTD, IE
- YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST FOR EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH, UK
The Vikings had profound cultural effects on the societies they visited, transforming them as well as the Scandinavian homelands themselves. This project brings together a network of partners to broaden and develop the audience to Viking heritage and its sites across Europe. These partners are already members of the Destination Viking Association which will take forward the results of the project. The Follow the Vikings project is a multi-faceted project to promote, celebrate, transfer knowledge and skills and facilitate the exchange of tangible and intangible cultural material relating to the Viking World. The objective of the project is to make the transnational Viking heritage accessible and understandable to a world-wide audience. The project has several key components:

1. Audience Development – through a variety of means including the use of new technologies (e.g. social media, mobile applications, website)

2. Building Competence in Business Models - through sharing best-practice throughout the project and expert advice at a seminar on business development

3. Strengthening the International Network - build a wider network among professionals and institutions working with the dissemination of Viking heritage, by investigating the ways of presenting Viking heritage to the public to create a better visitor experience

4. International Touring Event - Promote interest in Viking heritage and heritage tourism by organising a travelling group of Viking actors and artists to Viking markets and similar events throughout Europe. The project will create a large and lasting network among cultural actors involved in the preservation, presentation and marketing of Viking heritage throughout Europe and further afield.

Mindre samarbetsprojekt



Rostrum+, EU-stöd: 200 000 euro

Projektledare: Conseil international de la musique; FR

Partners:

- SVERIGES RADIO AB, SE

- BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, UK

- CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA DI STATO V. BELLINI, IT
- EESTI RAHVUSRINGHAALING, EE
- EUROPEAN MUSIC COUNCIL EV, DE
- NARODOWE FORUM MUZYKI, PL
- PALAIS DES BEAUX ARTS SA, BE
- POLSKIE RADIO S.A., PL
- UNIVERZITET UMETNOSTI U BEOGRADU, RS

Rostrum+ is a project that aims to promote contemporary classical music and strengthen

this sector in Europe and beyond. It will do so by exploring innovative strategies to develop audiences, promote new music, enhance the capacity and skills of radio professionals and inspire cooperation between musicians, higher music education institutions and broadcasting companies throughout Europe and across the globe. The springboard for the project is the International Rostrum of Composers (IRC), an annual event uniting some 40 delegates of national broadcasting companies.
Building upon this existing foundation, the project will introduce new activities that connect with other operators of the genre, the long-term goal being the expansion and durable growth/sustaining of the contemporary music sector in Europe and beyond. To this end, the International Music Council will partner with public radios, cultural venues, conservatoires and the European Music Council to bring the IRC out of its current boundaries. To achieve the objectives and address all the target groups necessary for the action, the Rostrum+ project sets out a diverse set of activities, notably:

Listen: radio producers will listen, select and broadcast works by some 180 composers

Live!: student ensembles perform a series of 16 concerts in 5 countries

Commissions: 6 emerging composers will benefit from this career opportunity

Professional Development: activities enhancing the capacity of radio producers to deal with new challenges, explore possibilities and develop solutions

Lab: an unprecedented activity in which radio producers will be invited to experiment innovative approaches to present contemporary compositions to the public and allow them to interact with it Student Development: academic training, live concerts and meetings with composers, professionals from radio and concert halls to develop a dynamic link with the musicians of tomorrow.

Web: a dedicated website to maximize outreach and engagement.

Circus Arts and Street Arts Circuits, EU-stöd: 140 188,47 euro

Projektledare: MiramirO vzw, BE

Partners:

- UPPLEV BOTKYRKA AB/SUBTOPIA, SE

- CIRCUSINFO FINLAND, FI

- FIRA DE TEATRE AL CARRER DE TÀRREGA, ES
- ZAHRADA, O.P.S., CZ

Circus Arts and Street Arts Circuits (CASA) wants to raise the circus and street arts professionals’ ambition as well as their awareness of new challenges, proactively shaping responses to them. The partners unite to increase stakeholders’ capacity to work internationally and commit to facilitate the transmission of good working practices and the enhancement of (intercultural) competences and skills in our fields. CASA is designed as a support programme aiming at unfolding work opportunities for circus and outdoor arts professionals by helping them to access international markets and quality information on street arts and circus, to develop knowledge on different cultural contexts and artistic environments and to learn from peers in order to diversify their approaches and imagine new work methods. A special focus will be given to unlocking the potential of circus and street arts to reach new audiences. This will be achieved through the following activities:

- Communication & Marketing Workshops: 1 day trainings, led by international experts, to increase the capacity of individual professionals to work transnationally and adapt to new realities.

- Audience & Market Development Trips: 7 day exploratory trips into a different cultural context to open new horizons in terms of work opportunities as well as being inspired by innovative approaches an making new connections

- Multimedia Market Guides: Each guide will focus on particular cultural context, providing researched information and analysis of cultural policies, cultural infrastructures and local artistic realities. The guides will adopt an innovative multisupport format. Disseminating all information and results through a communication strategy with in it’s core an accessible interactive website with multi format content. CASA expects to serve as a spring board for future cooperations, projects and artistic innovations in the field of circus and street arts.

Puppet Nomad Academy, EU-stöd: 200 000 euro

Projektledare: MINI TEATER, Institute for execution and promotion of puppet and theatre performances, SI
Partners:
- STAFFAN BJÖRKLUNDS TEATER, SE

- BUCHTY A LOUTKY, CZ

- PRO RODOPI FOUNDATION / FONDATZIYA ''ZA RODOPITE", BG
- UO NOVO KAZALISTE, HR

The project will encompass activities aimed at improving the contacts and exchange of knowledge among the partner countries. The goal of the project is also establishing contact between the younger generation, emerging from universities, and older, experienced artists. But mostly, it is about implementing the ancient Greek method of transferring knowledge and skills from the masters to the young. The proposed project is similar to this in the aspect of being predominantly intended for the mobility of artists, education and creation of different puppet performances of different techniques and with diverse direction concepts. The basic purpose of the project is the organization of workshops which will allow young puppeteers and actors to meet the masters of theatre and together create different performances. All the teams are fully international and all include artists from different countries and environments, creating together on a common theme. The themes cover a wide assortment ranging from classical motifs to new original texts, which will be written especially for these pieces. Great emphasis will be put on improvisation throughout the process. After the completion of the performances, great intention will be paid to the presentation of the projects in different environments the authors themselves stam from.

Apart from the performances themselves, touching upon themes such as friendship, violence among children, fear of difference or sexuality, there are three further projects specifically created for encounters with sensitive themes the children experience in the period of growing up. Poo, Death and Love (interactive and intermedia performance and intermedia sculpture for the youngest children and adults, or respectively, a communication-education and emmancipatory process).

OTHER WORDS – Literary Circuit for Small and Minority Languages, 200 000 euro

Projektledare: DONOSTIA KULTURA ENTIDAD PÚBLICA EMPRESARIAL, ES

Partners:

- FÖRENINGEN LITTFEST, SE

- DRUSTVO ZA SODOBNO UMETNOST X-OP, SI

- FORAS NA GAEILGE, IE
- YOUTH FORUM BITOLA, MK

Other Words will create a network of creative placements for minority or lesser used language writers, cooperating with cultural agents in countries where those languages are spoken.

A defining European characteristic is cultural and linguistic diversity. During our long history much of the literature in these languages has been hidden, surviving thanks only to their speakers and creators. Other Words seeks to help Europeans to discover this richness via artistic placements and translations, sharing experiences from different territories.
Mobility of writers and their works is central to the project. It will offer 8 week-long literary residencies. Writers from participating countries will be placed in a different participating country. Each year partners will send 2 writers and host 2 other writers. The participating bodies will issue an open call and run a selection process. Also, they will have to offer mediation activities to the literary creators they host. The aim is that dynamic relationships
be formed during the placements with the communities in the host country. Firstly, the creation process should be carried out in a way that is visible to the public and, secondly,
the placement experience should be depicted in the creation process. Writers must, therefore, complete 2 activities during their placement.

Examples of possible activities include:

- Conferences or workshops for the general public.

- Activities promoting reading and writing for children and young people.

- Collaborating with an artist from the host territory and combining disciplines.

Finally, literary works created by these writers will be translated into English and the other languages and published digitally on the project's website. This digital platform will also show activities held during the placements to new readers and to European cultural promoters working with artists in minority languages, offering them first hand information on our efforts to help writers work transnationally.

Europe Grand Central, EU-stöd: 200 000 euro

Projektledare: Not Quite, SE
Partners:
- TRANS EUROPE HALLES, SE
- ASSOCIAZIONE LAMINARIE, IT
- EUROPEJSKA FUNDACJA KULTURY MIEJSKIEJ, PL
- FONDS ROBERTO CIMETTA, FR
- KULTURZENTRUM SCHLACHTHOF E.V., DE
- ODC NON-PROFIT THEATER COMPANY, GR

Europe Grand Central is a ground breaking cooperation effort that combine grassroots projects by independent culture organizations across Europe and beyond through a unique digital and conceptual platform to connect audience created narratives about the human act of crossing borders. Partners of the project, all solid culture operators and networks, work on vastly varied topics such as rising xenophobia towards refugees in Sweden, personal consequences of mounting economic crisis in Greece, disconnected suburbs and city-dwellers in Bologna and Bremen, political tensions at the eastern borderlands of Poland, and skewed notions of the Arab world in Europe.

The methods for audience inclusion to challenge sentiments of "us" and "them" vary across interactive theatre and photography, craft, design, workshops, street art, and artistic residencies. Europe Grand Central is the space for learning across contexts and to develop methods to meet our audiences where they are. At the heart of the project is the continuously developing Bordr digital tool for connection of border stories that will be used in and across all projects. The partners will co-design our action sharing database europegrandcentral.net hosted by Trans Europe Halles, the main network of independent European culture centers, that serve as our communication, and legacy partner. Over two years we will have four project meetings, in 2017 we will coordinate an all-European simultaneous show of local presentations. Our research and dissemination partners are world class universities and public institutions across Europe and beyond. Our aim is to transform perceptions on the act of crossing borders from suspicion to curiosity, to empower under- and misrepresented individuals, and to spread lasting lessons on the art of collecting, representing and combining first hand human experiences. We work to produce an inclusive statement of diversity with potential to start a global movement of connected human values.