How Art Can Boost Pupils’ Civic Engagement – Open Call

The European Commission has launched a call for tenders to explore how schools and artists can work together to enhance pupils’ civic engagement and democratic citizenship education through participatory artistic and cultural activities in and around schools. The deadline to apply is 20 September. 

Evidence shows that civic engagement among adolescents has declined to worrying levels. At the same time, other studies show clear benefits from using culture and the arts to teach about democracy and citizenship at school.

The call will help collect knowledge on how to design and implement effective collaborations between schools and cultural professionals that use the power of art and culture to enhance young people’s democratic attitudes and readiness to engage in civic and democratic life.

It will also help the European Commission to share this knowledge and best practice examples with policy-makers, educators, creative professionals and other key stakeholders around the EU in an organised way that could impact policy and practice.