What is the role of culture in improving health and wellbeing? How can we create change through culture by impacting European, national, regional or local policy making? What are the challenges? The CultureForHealth project aims to answer these questions.
CultureForHealth brings researchers, practitioners and policy makers together to generate knowledge, research and field work in order to trigger cross-sectoral cooperation and policies that enhance well-being through culture.
The project will undertake a research review clarifying the importance and the role of culture for well-being and health, taking stock of existing knowledge and evidence, and delineating initial recommendations for policy as well as targeted investment measures. Through the organisation of a series of roundtables and study visits in Denmark, Italy and Romania, webinars, workshops and a final conference, CultureforHealth will facilitate cross-sectorial and trans-European cooperation aiming at the generation of knowledge and compilation of policy guidelines on how to enhance well-being through culture. Finally, the initiative will also institute six pilot projects in Denmark, Italy, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia aiming at “management and treatment” of illnesses as well as “prevention and promotion” for a variety of life stages and age groups.
CultureForHealth is a project co-funded by the European Commission with partners all over Europe, consisting of Culture Action Europe, Trans Europe Halles, Central Denmark Region, Northern Dimension Partnership for Culture, Centrul Cultural Clujean, and Društvo Asociacija.
