Cultivating artistic & cultural education in Europe.
Seeds for Culture brings together seven partners from five countries to make Artistic and Cultural Education a lever for inclusion and educational innovation—particularly where access to culture remains limited.
Cultivating synergies between education and culture.
SEEDS for Culture (2025-2028) is an Erasmus+ partnership project bringing together seven organizations from five European countries. It unites stakeholders from education, culture, and local authorities around a common ambition: to strengthen the links between these sectors to make artistic and cultural education a lever for inclusion, educational innovation, and social cohesion.
Through research, exchange of practices, and co-construction of common tools, the partners will develop a continuing education module, a multilingual guide of good practices, a Green Book, and a European dissemination seminar. These outputs aim to support teachers and cultural professionals in implementing innovative projects, particularly in areas where access to culture remains limited.
By fostering European cooperation and sharing experiences, SEEDS for Culture aims to contribute to the evolution of professional practices and inspire educational and cultural policies. The project thus seeks to promote artistic and cultural education accessible to all, capable of addressing contemporary challenges of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunities.
Three structuring pillars.
Build sustainable bridges between European teaching, cultural, and institutional communities.
Strengthen collaboration
Bring together teachers, cultural mediators, and professionals to work on innovative artistic and cultural education projects.
Promote inclusion
Make Artistic and Cultural Education a lever for inclusion in all its forms.
Influence policies
Document, capitalize, advocate—to inspire better European public policies.
Work packages.
Overall project management: consortium coordination, monitoring of schedule, budget, and indicators, in an inclusive, digital, and ecological approach.
- Coordination committee
- Monitoring & indicators
- Inclusion & sustainability
Identify and understand artistic and cultural education practices in partner countries to build on the most relevant experiences.
- Inventory of good practices
- European conference
- Guide of good practices
A common pathway for teachers and cultural professionals, fostering the co-construction of artistic and cultural education projects.
- Pathway design
- Inclusion
- Two test mobilities
Communicate throughout the project and widely disseminate its outputs to educational, cultural, institutional, and general audiences.
- Website (deliverable)
- Green Book
- Final seminar
Documentary outputs, in open access.
All deliverables will be published in the six languages of the partnership: French, English, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and Finnish.
Inventory of good practices
Survey and analysis of innovative artistic and cultural education practices in each partner country—a comparative view of European initiatives.
Guide of good practices
A concise and accessible guide presenting the most inspiring experiences: a practical tool for practitioners and the foundation for the future training module.
Training module
A common pathway for teachers and cultural professionals: 26 to 28 hours, hybrid approach, refined through two international test mobilities.
Green Book
Coordinated by Fundación Thyssen-Bornemisza, it showcases the project’s innovations and formulates recommendations for European public decision-makers.
European highlights.
European Conference on Artistic and Cultural Education
From 8 to 10 October 2025, Amiens hosted the European Conference on Artistic and Cultural Education (ACE) at the Maison…
Final seminar
In June 2028, three years of European cooperation will come to a close in Lille with the final seminar of…
Seven partners, five countries.
A European partnership bringing together leading educational institutions, academic authorities, and cultural stakeholders.
GIP ViaPro
Région Académique Hauts-de-France
Amiens Métropole
Fundación Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Basics for Children
UCL Erhvervsakademi
City of Seinäjoki
Let's cultivate together.
The project is open to exchanges with teachers, mediators, researchers, and institutions wishing to contribute to artistic and cultural education in Europe.