Category: Innovation & Society

For 2021-2024, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and Arts at CERN are launching «Connect», a residency and cultural exchange programme for artists and cultural practitioners at the intersection of science and artistic research. As part of Pro Helvetia’s focus on «Art, Science and Technology» «Connect» supports networking and collaboration models combining these three fields of …

Artists and cultural practitioners should have the opportunity to respond to current social transformations, even beyond disciplinary funding, to actively shape the associated developments and to engage with disciplines outside the arts in their artistic practice. As of 2021, Pro Helvetia is awarding grants twice a year to arts and cultural practitioners for transdisciplinary research …

As of 2021, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is offering a starter workshop on the subject of «diversity processes at cultural organisations». Cultural institutions and organisations will be learning from recognised diversity experts how to enhance diversity and equality in their organisational and operational structures. In the wake of the «Start Diversity» workshop, participants …

With «Diversity Tandem», the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is offering publicly supported cultural institutions and organisations the possibility of examining their structures and support in enhancing their diversity. The cultural institutions and organisations selected will receive guidance from diversity experts of their choice, will obtain resources, competencies and methods for enhancing diversity and equality …

In connection with its «Intercultural Society» initiative, Pro Helvetia launched a call for projects relating to intercultural opening at cultural institutions under the heading «Intercultural Tandem». In a last round of jury decisions, 7 projects were chosen for support.  The aim of «Intercultural Tandem » is to foster tandems consisting of cultural institutions on the one hand …

A total of 15 tandems made up of renowned artists and researchers applied for participation in the PolARTS pilot project. On the arts side, applicants included representatives of all disciplines supported by Pro Helvetia. Some of the tandem partners got to know each other at a specific matchmaking event in December 2019. Among the applicants, …

In a complex world in which arts, science and technology are interlinked and multidisciplinary processes are becoming increasingly important in the face of global and societal issues, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Polar Institute have jointly launched a pilot project named PolARTS. For Pro Helvetia, this represents a first step in …

The «Nationaler Kulturdialog», a Swiss cultural policy forum, has issued a manual with various contributions on the subject of cultural participation. Pro Helvetia as a member of the forum provided one of them, entitled «Häuser und Förderung öffnen. Interkultur im Schweizer Kulturbetrieb» (opening up institutions and promotional opportunities – interculturality in the Swiss cultural scene) …

In connection with its «Intercultural Society» initiative, Pro Helvetia launched a call for projects relating to intercultural opening at cultural institutions under the heading «Intercultural Tandem». In a first round of jury decisions, 7 projects were chosen for support. The aim of «Intercultural Tandem » is to foster tandems consisting of cultural institutions on the …