Open Call: The European Commission – School/Culture Collaborations Through Citizenship Education

The European Commission is delighted to announce that it has launched an Open Call for Good Practices on School/Culture Collaborations for Citizenship Education.

The European Commission invites you to share your good practice example of how schools can work with artists and cultural organisations to enhance pupils' civic engagement, democratic attitudes, and their readiness to engage in civic democratic life through the power of participatory artistic and cultural experiences within and around schools. 

If you have done important work of this kind, please tell the European Commission about it.

If you know other people who have done such work of high quality, please forward this request to them.

The European Commission is looking for inspirational examples of such work that was/is implemented:

• Within and around primary schools (upper years, age of pupils >10) and (especially) in secondary schools (ISCED 1-3), general or vocational. 
• Within and around formal, non-formal and/or informal education environments. 
  

Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2025 through this online form

You can write in any of the EU-27 official languages. Please select your language under the "Languages" section of the menu on the right-hand side of the screen.

Your contribution could make a difference. Good examples will inform and inspire policy and practice in the EU and world-wide. 

A selection of good practice examples will feature in the Compendium of Best Practices that the European Commission will publish and disseminate widely.

This request is the first step in the European Union's 2-year project that started in June 2025:

Culture and Democracy Study and Peer Learning 

School/Culture Collaborations for Civic Engagement and Critical Citizenship Education - How schools, artists and cultural organisations can work together to enhance young people's democratic attitudes and their readiness to engage in civic democratic life. 

The project will generate knowledge and concrete guidance for policy and practice on this topic.

The project is an initiative of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, implemented by its contractor Visionary Analytics in cooperation with KEA European Affairs following an Open Call For Tenders.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to citizeneduc@visionary.lt

The European Commission is looking forward to your contributions.