i-Portunus reseach on cultural mobility

Toni Attard was invited to contribute to Kultura Nova Foundation’s role within the project “i-Portunus Houses – Kick-start a local mobility host network for artists & cultural professionals in all Creative Europe countries” to develop and coordinate the implementation of research activities. Kultura Nova Foundation, together with its partners the European Cultural Foundation and MitOst Foundation, developed the project in September 2019, developing of a grant scheme for the mobility of artists and cultural professionals in the Creative Europe countries, and besides grants giving, the project encompassed a research on mobility and the design of policy recommendations. 

The research within the project encompassed the following dimensions: 1) redefining the approach to cultural mobility in context of the pandemic that has had a significant impact on the cultural and creative sector, and sectors of tourism and transport and has created new inequalities among countries; 2) the future of mobility in Europe in the context of sustainability and achieving climate goals; 3) questions of approaches and inequality present in Europe and the EU; 4) green and sustainable mobility, practical and policy dimensions; 5) question of participation and the manner in which mobility affects the local community through participatory praxis and approaches; and 6) digital dimension.

Toni Attard’s contribution to the research was on the study on mobility in culture from the perspectives of artists, cultural professionals, hosts and funders, and in building the scenario for the future of mobility in culture.

In 2022 Kultura Nova Foundation issued the publication consisting of 4 interconnected volumes. Each volume of the publication represents one of the research sections.