Discover the great projects that participated in Up Grants 2024: Culture for Inclusion. Up Grants is our microgrants scheme that rewards your best practices in cultural project management. This edition celebrates inclusion, and we have gathered initiatives based on three thematic strands: e-inclusion and digital accessibility; building inclusive narratives; identification and removal of barriers for marginalised groups.
Vote is now closed: discover the four winning projects here.
Monitoring and networking platform for museums and cultural institutions in southern Italy
A multi-level digital and cultural remediation project by Ramdom in collaboration with the artist Emilio Vavarella.
Empowering seniors through creative mail art workshops to bridge generations and boost digital skills
Establish a cultural network towards a platform hosting a curated collection of documentaries.
Creating a human-centric digital solution for refugee groups and improving the donor-to-beneficiary relationship
Digitising old movie posters & creating immersive visualisation of a historic cinema in Peja, Kosovo
An inclusive and interactive digital edutainment platform for children combining performing arts, streaming and gaming
Online guide provides access to guidance, practices for preserving personal items physical & digital
Promoting inclusivity through access to cultural events for diverse groups of people
RIMA is an app that empowers artists from the Global South through matchmaking, mentoring and networking features.
La Cardola is the virtual network to promote real inclusion within the Porta-Saragozza neighbourhood
The project focuses on promoting digital accessibility and digital literacy skills among the IDP elderly women.
A network for like-minded artists and professionals passionate about making a positive impact on our world.
Exposing autism through the creation of photographic paper and digital platform for image-based narratives of inclusion.
Leveraging immersive technologie to create virtual exhibition experiences, making art inclusive for audiences worldwide.
Our project encourages the use of community voice in touristic routes through co-creation and heritage-led audioguides.
Our aim is simply to make culture accessible to all. For free, everywhere, overcoming barriers.
The Afromayores memory and genealogy project is an audiovisual and photographic initiative
Empowering Syrian youth and locals in Şanlıurfa through shared narratives and cultural understanding.
Fédérap is the first organisation representing rap professionals in the French music industry.
Northern Script for young and aspiring Nordic screenwriters
Establishment of the Pegasus Art Therapy Centre
Online Listening Sessions for the African Diaspora in Berlin
A 4-episode video-podcast that raises awareness on three neighbourhoods of the Milanese suburbs
Popularise watercolour art and promote inclusive community participation through exhibitions
Real Stories. Real Change- promoting inclusive narratives and cooperation through compelling documentary films.
An exhibition to celebrate and reinterpret the cultural heritage of North Macedonia's diverse communities.
Empowering immigrants through art, theatre & story sharing for deeper integration & equality
'Black-A collective story about blackness through community work and creation".
[BE] is a research and networking initiative that empowers diverse, intersectional NGO voices through empathy exercises.
La Métive is a place of residence for multidisciplinary artistic creation from all over the world.
A participatory initiative designed to foster local community engagement & inclusivity in the arts.
An artbook to promote Ivano-Frankivsk cultural heritage in the field of outsider art
Cultural encounters in the Dreyeckland - Rhizomes artistiques en action
Convit/e fosters reflection and action on migration, diversity, sustainability and food sovereignty through cooking
To create an opera language accessible to both deaf and hearing people
In our digital café participants are invited to explore cultural topics relevant to Europe, West Asia, & North Africa.
"Echoes of Ukraine" is a multimedia project dedicated to illuminating the Ukrainian diaspora & refugee community
Music4Life – changing narratives while uplifting lives through music
The symbiotic relationship between musicians and their audience revolves around the exchange of ideas.
Educational action for children and teachers with an active focus on social inclusion and ecological knowledge.
Collecting testimonies and material culture of/by/for communities, for the Benaki Museum's "Africanisms" exhibition.
Social innovation project aimed at the integration and inclusion of the young generations of Bassa Romagna.
Project will foster inclusive and vibrant intergenerational connections through a series of dynamic dance workshops.
CONTACTS, an acronym for COUNTING THROUGH ACTS 'to include with actions', is a communication campaign on accessibility.
integration of people with disabilities into the library space, promotion of reading culture among marginalized groups
A research, educational, artistic and community project that vindicates the historical role of women in sustaining life.
An art project and storytelling brunch highlighting immigrant experiences and fostering intercultural connections.
Inclusive Resource Center: Support and Development for Everyone, Regardless of Disabilities.
Creating an "Inclusive Entrance" Roadmap for High-Rise Buildings in Zaporizhzhia with the aim of arranging entrances
The project is offering a leisure program for socially disadvantage children during the summer holidays.
Spreading 5 personal stories of families on inclusive education can change the approach to education in Slovakia.
The project aims to promote gender equality by educating teenagers from Romanian cities with limited access to culture.
MPJ makes visible the interconnected histories of peatlands across Europe and innovatively visualises trade dynamics.
Despite having Autism, I engage in singing to connect with people and invite them to join me in musical workshops.
Community-based workshop exploring memories and transformation of Crato through participatory and ethnographic methods.
Young people step into the lived experiences of people with disabilities and learn the meaning of strength in diversity.
Unveil 'Kotor's legends Brought to Life' merging myth and culture through captivating multimedia.
Celebrating Diversity Enhancing Wellbeing: Empowering Inclusive Narratives @the Multicultural Centre
Exploring diverse art forms, the “refugees” in cultural products, through cross-cultural dialogue
The House of Creatures is a live video cultural magazine show that highlights artists from the intersectional majority.
Virtual platform made by migrant Latin women in Europe, to discuss work rights, integration and social justice.
Multisensory discussions about a single painting, involving people with visual impairments and those fully-sighted.
ACMC is a cross-disciplinary project designed to empower professionals and students in the arts and culture sector.
Group that brings the Giantess Frida, adapted to a wheelchair and other difficulties, to make disability visible
Lesbian Visibility Day event including film screening, discussion about lesbians under totalitarian regimes and concert
An exploration of underrepresented African students in Northern Cyprus, using art and advocacy for social integration
Bridging the gap between the elderly and youth!
Urban Visual Microethnography: Meeting, Drawing, Understanding & Designing a new narrative of inclusive Future Together
Encouraging students from Swedish national minorities to write their theses about minority issues
Providing guided cultural immersion activities to support integration of refugees and newcomers
Innovative Training Program for Enhancing Communication and Understanding with People with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Woodins Teen Studio project is the idea of self-realisation of a teenager through creative labour
Crafting canvases to illuminate social inclusion and empower young people with fewer opportunities
A platform for Art & Performance that connects, educates & supports all kinds of artists
A place for artistic creation, for all, specialised in welcoming people in psychological suffering
Good accessibility of services secures everyone's right to participate and gain experiences.
Engage and empower young people to create exciting fulfilling futures through yoga and meditation
Expressing Futures Cultural Practices to Reactivate Neet Youth Confidence and Prevent Early School Leaving
Hands-on linguistic first aid helps refugees and asylum seekers rebuild their lives in their new host country.
Art workshops and forums fostering Deaf community cohesion in Barcelona
2nd edition of the meeting on reading as a tool for transformation with communities on Santiago City
Macedonian folk music and folklore reaches all children, including children from rural areas in North Macedonia.
Training for young women in Tunisia to use construction waste as salable commodities and artistic work crafts
This project aims to make the museum accessible by incorporating sign language, QR codenarratives for all exhibitions.
Co-design accessibility of cultural activities and venues with cultural professionals and disabled people
The Rhizovention is a contemporary circus convention which will take place from 19.-23.06.2024 in Drosendorf/ Austria
Leather & Hide - Changing the world, one scoby at a time.
Campaign in support for 5488 bill on fighting hate crimes with Ukrainian A-list celebrities and influencers
Empowering artists through contemporary dance, breaking barriers & reshaping arts in Italy
Use of Italian Sign Language (ISL) for emotional accessibility of the show "The Yoricks. Comic Interlude" by TTB (IT).
To promote the successful model of coping with the social stigma that exists towards disabled people
Children with disabilities collaborate with art professionals to create a light art piece for light art festival.
Developing accessibility through co-development workshops bringing together special needs families and service providers
Creating barrier-free access to our social centre of social services to ensure inclusivity for all
CALA promotes multilingualism in migrant communities by creating safe artistic-therapeutic focused spaces
Raising awareness through art and the experiences of people at risk of social isolation
Project to develop an Anti-racist pedagogical toolkit to be used in Spanish primary and secondary schools.
We aim to create art peace accessible for people with visual impairment in close cooperation with the community.
Project brings together children with special needs and their parents with dancers for sharing through the art of dance
Custom-made puppeteer theatre plays, sensory adapted through art therapy and Waldorf pedagogy
Developing inclusive brands in culture, by creating a tool using a participatory design sprint with local communities.
A community-led urban initiative fostering inclusion and promoting socio-territorial intervention.
Udvar Festival stands as a platform for showcasing Roma culture, challenging stigmas, and fostering community spirit.
Training as booksellers and feminist cultural club to empower vulnerable women and non-binary people
An open space to listen, observe, share and appreciate who we are-bridging communities, demographics and abilities.
ABUAB helps refugees in Barcelona by fostering inclusion and community through tours and events of cultural spots.
Orchestra for Social Inclusion as a vector for socialisation, sharing and personal development
The main aim of the project is to connect all talented people regardless of nationality or religion to one event.
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