Open art+care Zooms: Online format for discussion and thematic input (DE/EN/FR)

The Open art+care Zooms are an open, moderated online format for the personal exchange of experiences relating to artistic work and care responsibilities. They take place monthly and are open to all interested people without registration. The German- or English-language Open art+care Zoom takes place on the first Monday of each month, and the French-language Zoom on the first Wednesday of the month.

The dates are published on the art+care website in the agenda; the Zoom link is shared in advance via the Signal group and the art+care newsletter.

Important:
The Open art+care Zooms are not recorded and their content is not published.

The focus is on exchange, mutual support and the joint development of strategies for combining care responsibilities and artistic practice. The discussions in a small, protected setting are intended as an important contribution to necessary changes in the cultural sector.

What does this tool consist of?

  • Monthly, moderated Zoom discussion rounds (openly accessible via access link)
  • Publication of dates and access links via the Signal group or newsletter
  • Sometimes with brief thematic input at the beginning of the Zoom session
  • Duration: 1 to 1.5 hours

What can this tool do?

  • Exchange experiences and provide mutual relief (the feeling of not being alone)
  • Jointly develop strategies for combining artistic activity and care responsibilities
  • Build alliances and networks and strengthen the care discourse in art and culture

Why is this tool needed?

Many people in the arts and culture sector experience overload, guilt, pressure to justify themselves and the feeling of constantly lagging behind. The format creates a safe space to share these experiences and develop empowering alliances, solution strategies and energy for change.

Who is this tool for?

The format is open to anyone who is interested. It is aimed in particular at people in the arts and culture sector who have care responsibilities or are interested in care, solidarity-based practices and structural change in the cultural sector.

Concept & moderation:
art+care core team
contact@artandcare.org
artandcare.org

For Zoom link & updates:

art+care Newsletter

Signal group art+care Cosmos

published 23.03.2026

More Impact with Culture

In collaboration with Büro für Wagemut, m2act has created a short guide to help you gauge the potential impact of your project idea.

What does this tool consist of?

The tool consists of a two-page step-by-step guide with a case study and a template for individual use.

 

Tags

#Effect
#Overview
#Focus

What can this tool do?

This short guide has three aims:

  • Overview: It helps you summarise your project quickly and clearly. This can serve as a basis for presentations to partners, foundations, the public or other interested parties.
  • Focus on the essentials: It helps you to stay focused on your goal and distinguish the essentials from the non-essentials during the project.
  • More impact: It can help you recognise gaps, add points, adjust things and sharpen the project where necessary.

 

Who is this tool for?

More Impact with Culture is aimed, in particular, at people who have a project idea with which they want to contribute to a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable culture and society.

Why is this tool needed?

Projects aiming to bring about social change offer activities that are intended to trigger certain ways of thinking and acting which would not occur to the target group without the project. The impact of the project is measured in terms of this way of thinking and acting.

In order to design a project effectively, it helps to roll up the project from the back and to understand its impact chain more precisely.

 

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Migros Pioneer Fund: From 0 to 100

The Migros Pioneer Fund‘s «From 0 to 100» toolbox helps you turn a good idea into an effective pioneering project. Social innovation rarely happens in a straight line: it requires guidance, reflection and the right tools at the right time. The toolbox combines practical instructions, tried-and-tested methods and helpful templates to guide you through your project. It helps you gain clarity, structure challenges and tackle the next steps in a targeted manner. Whether you are at the beginning, in the middle or at a turning point, the toolbox is your reliable companion.

What does this tool consist of?

The «From 0 to 100» toolbox consists of two central elements:
a guide for pioneering projects and a collection of tools, methods and templates. The content is modular in structure and can be used flexibly depending on the project phase, from the initial spark of an idea to further development or scaling.

 

Tags

#migrospionierfonds
#pionierprojekt
#von0auf100

What can this tool do?

The toolbox helps you refine your idea, make informed decisions and consciously shape the course of your project. It offers concrete support on topics such as collaboration, impact, role clarification, communication and reflection. The content is practical, tried and tested, and designed to empower you to take action.

Who is this tool for?

The «From 0 to 100» toolbox is aimed at project teams, initiatives and individuals who want to create social added value with their ideas. It is particularly suitable for pioneering projects in the early and middle stages.

Why is this tool necessary?

Social change is complex and fraught with uncertainty. Projects encounter questions, conflicting goals and obstacles along the way. The toolbox provides guidance, makes implicit knowledge accessible and helps to tackle challenges in a structured manner without losing sight of the individual character of a project.

 

 

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Authorship:
Migros Pioneer Fund

Concept & production:
Migros Pioneer Fund

Contact:
Migros Pioneer Fund

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – 4.0 International License.

Tatenbank

The Swiss-wide central action platform for a more sustainable cultural sphere

The Tatenbank is a project by Vert le Futur, the association for sustainable culture and events.  The platform gathers knowledge from the cultural sector on sustainably producing and organising cultural events. The content of the Tatenbank is researched and curated by an interdisciplinary team of people at the intersection of culture and sustainability, with creative artists, authors, software developers, communication specialists, graphic designers and networking artists continuously building up and further developing it.

What is the Tatenbank made up of?

The Tatenbank offers condensed knowledge checked by experts, specific aids and tools and inspiring examples of sustainable work in all areas of cultural creation:

  • Administration
  • Equipment
  • Purchasing
  • Gastronomy
  • Infrastructure
  • Communication
  • Curation
  • Artistic content

Tags

#tatenbank
#vertlefutur
#tools
#inspiration
#ideas
#examples
#sustainableculture

What does the Tatenbank offer?

  • Information: The Tatenbank is a source of knowledge, inspiration and orientation.
  • Community: Creative artists can use the Tatenbank to obtain low-threshold access to expertise and a network of experts. They can learn how to go about their activities in a resource-conserving, sustainable way.
  • Participation: Users can get involved and share their own «deeds» in the area of sustainable cultural creation. The Tatenbank is therefore continuously updated with experiences from the community.

Why is the Tatenbank important?

To ensure that sustainability does not get swept under the table in the world of culture, it is important to have useful aids, knowledge and in particular good examples at our disposal.

It takes time to collect and study this information, and to draw the right conclusions from it.

The Vert le Futur association aims to close this gap with the Tatenbank.

Who is the Tatenbank aimed at?

The Tatenbank is aimed at creative artists from all genres who want to work towards sustainable culture in their respective areas of work and impact.

All content is available in German and French.

Impressum

Vert le Futur
vertlefutur.ch

Contact details
tatenbank@vertlefutur.ch

Sustainable Impact Tool

The Sustainable Impact Tool is a free working tool for cultural institutions and projects in Switzerland. It supports general and creative artists in systematically analysing their activities with regard to ecological and social sustainability. The effectiveness of sustainable action can thus be tested both at the institutional level and for individual productions, tours or events. The tool is refined on an ongoing basis.

What does this tool consist of?

The Sustainable Impact Tool enables the simplification of sustainability reporting through a variety of digital modules. Sub-elements enable the clear calculation of the CO2 footprint and further reporting modules for various areas of social sustainability are continually added.

 

Tags

#responsibility
#action
#sustainability
#reporting

What can this tool do?

The Sustainable Impact Tool supports an easily accessible and systematic analysis of the activities of general and creative artists with regard to environmental and social sustainability.

Who is this tool for?

The Sustainable Impact Tool is available free of charge for use by all cultural institutions, events, productions and tours in Switzerland. 

Why is this tool needed?

Simple reporting enables the prioritisation of measures based on their effectiveness for sustainable development. This makes it possible to monitor impact and deploy resources where they can have the greatest effect.

 

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The tool was launched by Pro Helvetia and the Migros Culture Percentage.

Impact Guide

Der Impact Guide ist eine Schritt-für-Schritt Anleitung, die Projektteams dabei unterstützt, ihr Projekt möglichst wirkungsvoll aufzusetzen.

Er hilft Akteur*innen, die in den Darstellenden Künsten zu einem Strukturwandel beitragen wollen, ihre Annahmen zu überprüfen und herauszufinden, ob die geplanten Aktivitäten und Angebote bei der Zielgruppe tatsächlich die gewünschte Verhaltensänderung bewirken.

Der Impact Guide basiert auf der Theory of Change und wurde vom Migros-Pionierfonds gemeinsam mit Policy Analytics entwickelt.

Warum braucht es dieses Tool?

Projekte, die einen gesellschaftlichen Wandel anstreben, bieten Aktivitäten an, die beim Zielpublikum eine Verhaltensänderung auslösen sollen, die ohne das Projektangebot nicht stattfinden würde. Die Wirkung des Projekts misst sich an dieser Verhaltensänderung.

Für die wirkungsvolle Konzipierung eines Projekts hilft es, das Projekt von hinten aufzurollen und seine Wirkungskette genauer zu kennen.

Dafür stellt der Impact Guide folgende Fragen:

  • Welche systemische Veränderung streben wir an?
  • Wer muss sein Verhalten wie ändern, um dieser systemischen Veränderung näher zu kommen?
  • Welches Angebot kann unser Projekt machen, um zu dieser Verhaltensänderung beizutragen?
  • Welche Annahmen stecken hinter dem Zusammenhang zwischen Angebot und Verhaltensänderung – und sind diese plausibel?

Tags

#impact
#wirkungsorientierung
#theory of change
#systemische veränderung
#input output outcome
#wirkungskette

Für wen ist dieses Tool?

Der Impact Guide ist ein Angebot für alle Akteur*innen, die mit ihren Ideen, Aktivitäten und Projekten eine fairere, inklusivere und nachhaltigere Kultur und Gesellschaft gestalten wollen.

Was kann dieses Tool?

Ein Projektteam kann mit Hilfe des Impact Guide Schritt für Schritt seine eigene Wirkungslogik aufzeichnen, seine Annahmen prüfen und die Aktivitäten so ausrichten, dass sie tatsächlich zum Erreichen der Wirkungsziele beitragen.

Er hilft dabei

  • Wirkungsziele zu definieren
  • Zusammenhänge zu visualisieren
  • Wirkungsketten zu erkennen
  • Annahmen zu überprüfen
  • Angebote zu schärfen

Herunterladen

PDF Kurzfassung Impact Guide

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Autor*innen: Linda Sulzer, Aljosha Henkel, Andreas Beerli

Migros Pionierfonds / Direktion Kultur und Soziales des Migros-Genossenschafts-Bundes

Policy Analytics

 

Stand: November 2021

Supporting Relevance

Ideas and strategies for inclusive, fair and flexible arts funding 

IETM – The international network for contemporary performing arts is one of the oldest and largest international cultural networks, representing the voice of over 500 organisations and individual professionals working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide. 

The network is actively working towards the achievement of better working conditions in the arts. Securing arts funding is a key element of this urgent and complex process. IETM campaigns intensively for new forms of arts funding. The publication «Supporting Relevance: Ideas and strategies for inclusive, fair and flexible arts funding» wants to encourage debate and offers strategies and solutions for sustainably improving the situation in the arts sector and the conditions for the professionals involved. 

What does this tool offer? 

In this publication, IETM provides: 

  • Key terms  
  • Inspiring examples 
  • Arguments 
  • Recommendations 

All of these are aimed at promoting fair, flexible and inclusive funding in the performing arts. 

Tags

#fairfunding
#inclusivefunding
#flexiblefunding
#sustainableart
#fairpractices 

Why is this tool important? 

The aim is for the arts sector to thrive and remain relevant in line with its values and current developments in society. Rethinking, adapting and improving models, methods and instruments related to arts funding is therefore essential. 

What does this tool do? 

The publication answers the following questions: 

  • Fairness: What is the key to fair funding in the performing arts?  
  • Flexibility: What does flexible funding mean? 
  • Inclusion: Who is excluded and how does inclusion work? 

The publication makes an important contribution to the current discussions surrounding the future of the performing arts and the role of arts funding in this sector. 

Who is this tool aimed at? 

The publication is aimed at all stakeholders looking to contribute ideas, activities and projects that will help shape a fairer, more inclusive and more sustainable culture and society, particularly at members of funding institutions and selection committees.

Download PDF

IETM Publication 2021 – Supporting Relevance

The publication is also available as an audio document on the IETM’s website: www.ietm.org  

Impressum

M. Ilic, F. Farhat, «Supporting relevance: Ideas and strategies for inclusive, fair and flexible arts funding», IETM, November 2021.

www.ietm.org/en/resources

Les bonnes pratiques

A self-assessment tool and concrete ways of promoting sustainability in the performing arts

Les Bonnes Pratiques is a joint pilot project of the Association des Compagnies Vaudoises and the Syndicat Suisse Romand du Spectacle. This initiative is primarily aimed at project managers in the performing arts. Through a non-binding self-assessment process, Les Bonnes Pratiques raises awareness of the issues surrounding working conditions and sustainability within professional practice in the cultural sector.

What does the tool consist of?

The tool is provided in the form of an internet platform. It consists of:

  • a guide
  • resources
  • a self-assessment tool

It can be used partially or fully, depending on the user’s wishes.

Tags

#lesbonnespratiquesch
#selfevaluation
#health in the workplace #sustainable art

What can this tool do?

By taking the time to scrutinise your project with the help of Les Bonnes Pratiques, you can identify possible weaknesses and act accordingly in a well-founded and persuasive manner. This is the first step towards significant improvements in the process of setting up and implementing projects.

Why is this tool needed?

In addition to the ecological aspects that all cultural professionals urgently need to consider when designing their projects, it also addresses issues surrounding the working environment. These are especially important, as the situation for employees in the independent cultural sector gradually deteriorates.

Who is this tool aimed at?

Les Bonnes Pratiques is primarily aimed at project managers in the performing arts. However, the concrete opportunities highlighted by the tool can inspire anyone who wishes to incorporate sustainability into their working practices.

Website

www.lesbonnespratiques.ch 

Contact:

contact@lesbonnespratiques.ch 

Impressum 

Authorship:

Syndicat Suisse Romand du Spectacle 

Association des Compagnies vaudoises