Cultural Centre Challenges: a toolkit from the second Visions for the Future brainstorm

Published 1 week ago

A drawing depicting people painting in a garden

Drawing by a student of Dorpsschool Kester primary school, in Kester, Belgium

Discover how socio-cultural workers across Europe face their common challenges, and have your say.

This interactive toolkit was created by the FULCRUM project partners based on the inputs collected during the second brainstorm in the Visions for the Future trajectory.

Browse the toolkit online here or download it here (N.B.: the downloadable version is not interactive: for an optimal browsing experience, we recommend consulting the toolkit online)

While at the first Visions for the Future meeting socio-cultural workers across Europe came together to identify their shared challenges, this second brainstorm, held in February 2025, served to gather insights, creative strategies, and real-life experiences to address those very challenges through collective intelligence.

For each challenge, the toolkit offers multiple approaches shared by workshop participants. The aim is to spark new ways of thinking and working, grounded in what people are already doing, experimenting with, and imagining together. This resource is meant to be interactive: we invite you to explore, reflect, adapt, and most importantly – contribute: use the Community Wall at the end of each section to share your own strategies, failures, insights, or provocations.

The text of the toolkit was authored by Anna Maria Ranczakowska, and the graphic design is by Nena Peeters.

Disclaimer: This publication was co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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