Category: Innovation & Society

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) are looking for artists and scientists who are interested in collaborating, with the aim of stimulating exchanges between art, science and technology. The NanoARTS programme creates a space for new artistic approaches and explorative research practices by selecting and accompanying up to three …

PolARTS is a joint initiative of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Polar Institute to stimulate the exchange and foster the collaboration between art and science. The PolARTS initiative opens a space for new collaborative and explorative practices and supports the processes of transdisciplinary cooperation. This call for proposals is aimed at …

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 …

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 …

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 …