E-ART 2.0

Green Curators Influence: Co-creation, circulation and promotion of sustainable curating and greener European Cultural & Creative Sectors

E-ART 2.0 builds on the E-ART project, which supported artists across Europe to create work from sustainable materials and to raise awareness of climate change through art. While E-ART was being carried out, the partners saw that making sustainable artworks is only half the job. The way those works are curated, transported and exhibited also leaves an environmental footprint, and few curators or cultural managers are trained to reduce it. E-ART 2.0 fills this gap by introducing the Green Curator: a cultural professional who can design and deliver exhibitions on circular, low-impact and socially inclusive principles, connecting artists, cultural institutions and local communities.

Target Groups of the Project: 

Direct Target Groups: 

  1. Curators: emerging and practising curators who want to add sustainability to the way they plan, design and run exhibitions. Two curators per partner country will take part in the training programme, the Living Labs and the international mobility.
  2. Cultural Managers and Sustainability Facilitators: professionals who manage cultural programmes, venues and events. They will use the project’s tools to reduce the environmental impact of their work and make it more inclusive.
  3. VET Providers and Trainers in the Cultural and Creative Sectors: organisations and trainers who can add the Green Curator curriculum, toolkit and micro-credentials to what they already teach.
  4. Cultural Institutions, Museums and Galleries: venues that will be consulted during the skills mapping and that can apply sustainable exhibition guidelines in their own spaces.

Indirect Target Groups: 

  1. Artists and Crafters: visual artists and makers who will co-create sustainable artworks with curators in the National Living Lab Residencies and show them in the national and international exhibitions.
  2. Higher Education and Lifelong Learning Institutions: arts, cultural management and design schools that can use the project results in their study programmes.
  3. Municipalities and Policymakers: local and regional authorities responsible for culture, who will receive the project’s position paper and policy recommendations.
  4. Environmental Organisations and the General Public: NGOs, local communities and visitors who will take part in the Living Labs and exhibitions and learn more about climate action through art.

Partners:

  • CARLOW COUNTY COUNCIL, Ireland (Coordinator)
  • VISUAL, Ireland
  • CUBE NGO, Greece
  • CONSORZIO MATERAHUB, Italy
  • OECON GROUP BULGARIA, Bulgaria
  • INTERCULT PRODUCTIONS, Sweden
  • LEMON GRASS COMMUNICATION, Spain

Information:

  • Duration: 01/09/2026 – 31/08/2029 (36 months)
  • Project number: 2026-1-IE01-KA220-VET-000455730