kultur_formen
As the kultur_formen team, we are dedicated to fostering connections among the arts, culture, youth, education and urban society. In arts education, all participants use artistic methods and work together on an equal footing.
Most projects are designed with and by children, youth and young adults. They contribute their own experiences and ideas to the project design and its creative processes. To ensure this exchange, we support tandem projects between arts and culture actors along with youth and education partners. We also offer qualification and training formats for future and already-experienced project leaders and other project participants. Our approach is critical of discrimination and diversity-oriented. This means that we include in our formats the knowledge and perspectives of people who still experience exclusion and are too rarely represented, especially in the arts, culture, youth and education. Our goal is for arts education projects to truly reflect the multifaceted lives, worlds and cultural practices of young people. To achieve this aim, the active group of project leaders must become more diverse. This shift is essential if Berlin’s social diversity is to be reflected in arts education.
Our work includes the fields of support, qualification, and community work. In one such area, we administer the Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung (Berlin Project Fund for Arts Education), which has helped to achieve numerous groundbreaking projects in the field of arts education in Berlin since 2008. Further, through the community platform Kubinaut, we provide the main digital contact portal for arts education in Berlin. Another key component of our work is a diversity-oriented qualification program for actors in arts and arts education. Starting in 2021, the Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis (Berlin Project Fund Urban Practice), supporting artistic projects in urban space, will expand our outreach.
Sub-areas
Through the Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung (Berlin Project Fund Arts Education), we provide a total of at least 2.930.000 euros annually for arts and cultural projects with children, youth and young adults up to 27 years of age. Individuals, groups, associations or institutions can apply for funding for cultural education projects in which young people deal with topics that affect them through the arts. As artistically active participants, the young people help determine their projects’ scope and course.
Funding is available for cooperation projects involving at least one partner from the field of the arts and culture and at least one partner from the field of education or youth services, for example, an artist cooperation with a school or youth club.
For further information (in German) please see:
The Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis supports artistic and cultural projects in publicly accessible spaces that deal with urban space and society in Berlin. The current application period runs from January 29, 2024 to February 25, 2024. Projects can start on April 15, 2024 at the earliest and must be completed by December 31, 2024.
We see public space as a meeting place, as well as a cultural and artistic venue. The aim of the Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis is to promote a more solidary society with the help of art and culture and to consolidate new and existing partnerships. Access is to be created and barriers broken down. The fund offers the opportunity to creatively shape the city beyond the profit motive.
Who can be supported?
The fund is aimed at all those working in the arts and culture in Berlin — from freelance individuals, independent groups and collectives, artistic institutions and cultural institutions to associations and limited liability companies. The projects should not be made for specific actors and communities, but by and with them.
Which projects are supported?
Funding is available for artistic projects and interdisciplinary approaches that deal with urban space, which can take place on the street, in parks, in public places, but also in parking lots, backyards, etc. The projects do not necessarily have to be made for specific actors or communities, but by and with them. However, the projects do not necessarily have to take place outdoors.
The projects should think of the city differently and creatively repurpose it. In this way, spaces are to be created that reveal new perspectives on urban development. For this purpose, local actors such as neighborhoods, initiatives and associations, district centers, community associations, small stores, handicraft businesses, etc. should be considered and, if possible, included.
It is important that the projects reflect social exclusions and actively work on access possibilities for people who are affected by discrimination(s). Underrepresented arts and cultural practitioners and practices will be given special consideration.
What is the funding amount?
The regular funding amount is €10,000 — €60,000 per project. For the reduction of barriers and for larger projects, up to 100,000 € can be applied for. However, this must be justified separately. Eligible for funding are not only the implementation of a project, but also processes and conception phases, such as workshops with the goal of collaborative project development.
What is the application process?
You can register on our website and then fill out the application for funding online. The application must be filled out in German. Forms and a completed sample application can be found on our website under “Info & Downloads”. Under “FAQ” we answer the most important questions about the application process. The jury of the Berlin Project Fund Urban Practice will then decide on the funding application according to the funding guidelines.
Click here for the website and the application.
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DRAUSSENSTADT-Call for Action
The DRAUSSENSTADT-Call for Action will not be continued in 2024. Until 2023, the DRAUSSENSTADT-Call for Action has been financed from Corona-Sondermittel which no longer exist.
Our qualification and events program takes a diversity-oriented, discrimination-critical approach. We offer awareness workshops, panel discussions and conferences to train project leaders and actors for work in the field of arts education. We focus on sensitizing participants to forms of discrimination that affect young people, such as adultism, racism and discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, social/cultural origin and disability. Additionally, people affected by discrimination are supported through empowerment programs to implement their own arts education projects. In addition to our events program, we publish documentation and brochures on these topics.
The online platform Kubinaut — Navigation Kulturelle Bildung (Arts Education Navigation)is a central contact point for cultural education in Berlin. Whether as a cultural institution, youth services institution, school, day care center, artist or young person, on this site, all interested parties have the chance to present their own work, search for project partners or participants, or offer practice rooms or other services.
Everyone interested in creative work by and with young people can register on Kubinaut and post their own events, projects, advertisements or profiles free of charge. Non-registered guests can also use Kubinaut – for example, to research on artistic project formats in which children or young people can actively participate; or to find inspiration for their own work, or a new job. The numerous offers can be filtered according to districts, dates, formats and categories such as theater, museum or circus.
As editors, we publish interviews and articles by specialists, report news from the field of arts education and provide information on funding opportunities and competitions.
The Kubinaut team also organizes events for further education and networking for actors in arts education and youth work.
Kubinaut is a cooperation project of the Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung and Kulturberatung und der Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendbildung (Foundation for Cultural Education and Cultural Consulting and the State Association for Cultural Education for Youth) e.V. The project is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family.
For further information (in German) please see: