Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being

Projects should ensure that:
• European, national, regional and local policy makers across health, culture, social care, humanitarian/relief, youth and education sectors become aware of arts and culture impacts on health, well-being and social cohesion and receive policy recommendations and practical implementation guides;
• Stakeholders in these sectors obtain tools to design, implement and evaluate cross-sectoral arts and culture interventions;
• Research and innovation gaps in the arts-and-health field are systematically documented, explained and addressed by presenting new scalable and replicable best practices, advancing implementation science in SSH disciplines;
• Policy-makers in international cooperation gain recommendations for promoting EU priorities, culture and fundamental values abroad through culture, health and well-being cooperation.

Proposals must: reinforce and mainstream cross-sector cooperation among cultural, health, social care, youth, education and humanitarian/relief sectors (including researchers and academia); cover both active and receptive cultural participation and critically address instances where art/culture may adversely affect mental health or be polarizing; include at least one arts- and culture-based intervention per thematic area (health promotion; mental health and well-being with focus on children, young people and other segments such as workers suffering burn-out; ageing; forcibly displaced populations; and inequality-related ill health); create an evidence gap map spanning health promotion, illness prevention, trauma recovery, disease management and treatment; evaluate clinical and cost-effectiveness of diverse art/culture interventions; develop policy guidelines and practical tools; map research and innovation gaps and barriers; propose a mixed cooperation model involving local, national and regional stakeholders; include cultural and creative sector organisations with proven cross-sectoral collaboration; and, where applicable, leverage data/services from European Research Infrastructures under the European Open Science Cloud and relevant Data Spaces, ensuring all produced data are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable).