Mapping of Initiatives on Culture, Health and Well-being

The Louis Pasteur University Hospital (UNLP) in Košice is the first in Slovakia to use art to rehabilitate patients. Physiotherapists of the Department of Physiology, Balneology and Medical Rehabilitation (OFBLR) UNLP Košice use tailor-made devices for the rehabilitation of patients. These were invented and produced for them by the artist and new media artist Boris Vaitovič. Parteners in the project, Creative Industry Košice (CIKE), not only contributed to the implementation of the project, but also donated to the hospital complete equipment for the implementation of a modern form of rehabilitation in practice.

The educational format EDU.pn of the Municipal Cultural Center focuses on the active mediation of Piešťany's regional history through creative workshops, professional lectures and art courses. The workshop, entitled Arts and Health, focuses on mental and physical health care. The educational lecture and creative workshop were led by Michaela Košútová Guillaume, who works as a university pedagogue of art and art therapy at the Trnava University in Trnava.

The Casa Ateliê project is an interface between the areas of arts, health and education. It aims to be an experimental space for the arts aimed at children and adolescents who are somehow connected to the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital for health issues in outpatient clinics or wards. The project sought to implement workshops with plastic and visual languages, aimed at children and adolescents with different diagnoses, including in some cases the various autism spectrums.

The Hotel da Loucura project was developed at the Instituto Municipal Nise da Silveira, in the Engenho de Dentro neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. It emerged as the headquarters to host doctors, artists and researchers interested in art, culture and mental health, but it ended up becoming an artistic-cultural center that, through art and communication, developed significant work with patients with mental health problems. The general objective of the project was to make articulations between the area of ​​Communicative Expression through the arts and its contributions to psychosocial rehabilitation.

The Dance Ambassadors is dance-based service concept invented by Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland (hereafter the LTA). The concept is nationally known, and the Finnish term Tanssikummi® was registered as a trademark in Finland in 2018. In practical terms, the work involves long-term residencies to engage people in dance in range of contexts. The dance artists at the LTA have a high level of bodily expertise, and they have developed several dance-based concepts, Dance Ambassadors being the most notable one. This concept was initially designed for elderly care and hospitals and they have since expanded the concept to cover day care centres, schools and other institutions, and they collaborate with NGOs in the social welfare and health care sector. The Dance Ambassadors have also produced content for research projects such as the ArtsEqual project at the University of the Arts Helsinki.

The pan-European project Film in hospital is an online platform dedicated to film screenings and audience engagement for children at the hospitals, revalidation centres and children recovering at home. With the approval of the European MEDIA funds, the project can consolidate and consequently ensure consistent quality of film education, structured guided audience development, and fostering European values and uniqueness through AV culture.
The project is striving to grant ill children in hospitals and revalidation centres access to exclusive, festival-quality films and educational materials. The 6 European partners are providing these children and youngsters with (film) culture. They want to stimulate other European festivals, distributors and research institutions to participate and create a wider European platform. Together they can increase awareness regarding audiovisual works and stimulate film literacy.

Plan of the Southern Savonia region to increase the well-being and health of the population through culture

Through the project, artists are trained in working in a social environment and staff is trained to receive artists to their units. The project also tests the art loan services as part of the hospital's services, allowing patients to personalize their rooms.

Plan of the city of Oulu to increase the well-being and health of the population through culture.

Jazz festival aimed to provide high-level jazz and rhythm music while minimising the use of natural resources, diminishing the environmental load, and increasing the well-being of festival visitors and local citizens.