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Oct 11, 2024
When art and culture give climate protection a fresh lick of paint: the Erasmus+ project “CultureAlps: connect, share, act!” opens up new ways of climate communication and collaboration.
Three children look at fish models in an exhibition at the Nature Museum.
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Learning with all the senses: museums such as the inatura experience show in Dornbirn/A open up new ways of communicating about the climate. © Petra Rainer

Arousing emotions, creating awareness, motivating people to act: art and culture are offering new ways to understand the climate crisis and inspire creative solutions. The Erasmus+ project “CultureAlps: connect, share, act!” promotes cooperation between organisations from the fields of art, culture and climate protection. By sharing best climate-friendly practices, it helps to make the cultural sector more sustainable and more involved in the fight against the climate crisis.

How can exhibitions and events be made more climate-friendly? Where can cultural and artistic approaches trigger behavioural change? What are the possible cultural mediation approaches? The project partners, from Liechtenstein, Italy and Austria, are investigating these and other questions, examining how cultural events can make the three planetary crises (global warming, loss of biodiversity and environmental pollution) tangible. The aim is to create new learning spaces that not only inform visitors, but also motivate them to act – both in everyday life and in politics.

Project goals

  • Promoting sustainability in the arts sector: cultural institutions such as museums will learn how to become more climate-friendly by sharing best practices.
  • Finding new ways of communication: the project partners will explore how cultural events can communicate the three planetary crises and open up innovative learning spaces about these.
  • Strengthening cross-sector networking: cooperation will be improved for exchanges between organisations from the fields of the arts, culture and environmental protection.

Activities

  • Partner meetings and workshops in Liechtenstein and Austria on the topic of sustainability in cultural institutions. Study visits to the Inatura in Dornbirn/AT and the domus Museum in Schaan/LI
  • Partner meeting and workshop in Rovereto/I on the topics of communication through culture in the climate crisis and the motivational power of cultural events
  • Podcast and illustrations of the results
  • Final event in Liechtenstein

Duration: October 2024 to March 2026

Project partners:

  • CIPRA International/LI
  • Inatura Experience Nature Show/A
  • La Foresta/I

Project languages: German, Italian and English

Filed under: CIPRA project

Contact

Maja Kogovšek
CIPRA International

Funding

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