The EXPECT_Art learning platform activity proposed by the Spain team is the Poetic Glossary. This October, we will return to the schools we have worked with throughout the project, so that the teaching staff can try out the platform and put the activities into practice.

This September, the @esbrinarecerca.bsky.social, organized the II Symposium on The Social Turn in the Arts and Critical Cultural Education. The event brought together professionals working at the intersection of arts and education, and allowed the BCN local team to present the EXPECT_Art Project

EXPECT_Art News The students in Germany explored their chill spaces through their own eyes, capturing meaningful places with photos and showed it to their classmates. The result: authentic insights into where they feel they belong, connect, and thrive.

How can we support children’s cultural literacy through creative practice? Chill Space Inspection is an inspirational practice developed by the German team – Kinemathek Karlsruhe + RPTU – inspired by The Costume Studio. Discover more creative practices on the upcoming EXPECT_Art Learning Platform.

BEING AN ART PARTNER... has meant exploring new ways of challenging assumptions in arts and culture. How can we create space for children’s voices within existing structures? Not by dismantling them, but by gently shifting them - making space for children’s experiences to shape the conversation📢

Summertime means summer school in the project! More than 25 students and teachers from across Europe have meet in Budapest to explore arts, education and decoloniality. It has been a week full of thought sharing, reflections on struggles, trust and brave spaces!

How can we support children’s cultural literacy through creative practice? Children develop stories, experiment with identity, and bring their ideas and experiences to life in The Costume Studio - one of the many inspirational practices to explore on the upcoming Expect_Art Learning Platform.

A meeting is never just about hard work. In Koper, we visited a youth centre, heard local legends about the city, enjoyed the beautiful atmosphere of the old town’s main square during a shared dinner, and even visited the Kino Otok film festival in Isola.

Last week, we enjoyed the hospitality of ZRS during our project meeting in Koper. As the project is soon coming to an end, everyone was especially glad to meet in person, learn about and jointly reflect on the results achieved by the partners, and think together about possible ways forward.

The 2nd Expect_Art Summer School (Budapest, July 6-11), will have 3 Workshops organized by UB: 🔮 Tracing invisible histories 🙆 Body-Graphies. Embodied cartographies to explore Critical Cultural Literacies 🪻 Weaving stories with plants: A collective counter-herbarium 👉 bit.ly/4dzf9Di #HorizonEU

Talk on EXPECT_Art: Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen explores decolonization, art, and critical cultural literacy. Based on fieldwork in Danish areas shaped by “ghetto” legislation, it shows how residents’ art responds to local politics and the war on Gaza. Sign up via link in comments

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS We invite proposals for presentations at EXPECT_Art’s final conference on 25-26 November, 2026 in Landau Germany. Please read more about the conference and submit your abstract using the link. Deadline for abstract submission: May 27, 2026.

Join the EXPECT_Art Summer School! 🌞 Are you a bachelor’s or master’s student interested in art, culture, and education? The EXPECT_Art Summer School introduces students to cultural literacy from decolonial and community-based perspectives in education. Date: 6-11 July, 2026

Yesterday, we held our second event focusing on the methods used in the classroom work of Kristóf Horváth within the framework of the project. This time, the spotlight was on debate theatre.

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InSite Drama organized two events in Budapest where teachers and youth workers had the opportunity to explore the methods and learn about the experiences from Kristóf Horváth focusing on how we can pay attention to children’s feelings and thoughts without invalidating them in the learning process.

Research in local communities & schools has come to an end and we've gained several interesting insights. In the Slovenian case, for example, pupils enjoy artistic practices. However, they may view them as “just fun” activities (unstructured/chaotic), rather than as a legitimate educ. approach.

Stories in action📚🎭 Slovenian team finished this year's theatre club with the theatre play "Fairy Tales in Action." The creative process started with the children's idea to create their own fairy tale💡. From the first ideas, a story gradually emerged under the mentorship of Tina Rataj🎭.

Day 2 of our meeting in Wrocław ✨ We started our day with a morning workshop on building environments within the concept of cultural literacy at Wrocławski Instytut Kultury 🎨 After that we continued our workshops and discussions at University of Wrocław 🎓 Stay tuned for the results of our work 🔜

We are happy to share some memories from our latest meeting in Wrocław! This time our colleagues from University of Wrocław hosted this meeting. It was a great opportunity to discuss our progress and future plans. Enjoy some pictures from our first day of the consortium meeting! ✨

Unpacking critical culture literacy with Alicja Czyczel! 💭🌀 In the first half of the year, we hosted workshops on body awareness and multisensory experience. Alicja Czyczel guided participants through observing sensations, thoughts and emotions from the body, exploring their impact on perception.

Polish team checking in! As the year slowly comes to a close, we are looking back at the chances we had to share some lessons and thoughts about Expect_Art. In October we've hosted a panel discussion during Cultural Education Forum with Kamila Kamińska, Paweł Szlotawa and Kasia Krej. 🔗 below!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Thematical issue of Nordicum – Mediterraneum on Decoloniality The call welcomes theoretical reflections on decoloniality and on decolonial perspectives on different topics as well as empirical studies that investigate or apply decolonial thinking. Deadline: January 10, 2026

Our project is grounded in collaboration between practitioners from the cultural & creative sectors and researchers. For us, working together means togetherness, open communication, exchange, sharing ideas, listening, dialogue, recognizing the limits of each perspective, and spending time together.

The School of the Future – through the eyes of children No art, no ethics, no history – just workshops for your dreams. No homework, little writing, playful learning, ramen, iPads, chill rooms. A school that prepares for life and values now. Where art and future meet – meaningful, creative, alive.

In September, the Barcelona team kicked off the new academic year by participating in ECER 2025 and holding an open day to present EART projects, including EXPECT_Art. This October we will continue working and disseminating the project!

🔊 ECER 2025 / UB's academics and the artist-educator from EART reflected on collaboration in ethnographic research, the epistemological tensions of the arts within school-based education, and the possibilities for decolonizing the curriculum through arts education. #ECER2025 #HorizonEurope

This week, we're participating at the ECER 2025 in Belgrade. Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen from @aau.dk chaired the panel on Decolonizing Curricula through Art Education: First Steps of the EXPECT_Art Project in Affecting and Being Affected by Schools. Cheers from the team👋 #ecer2025

Day 6 was our last day of workshops. Karolina from the University of Wrocław presented workshop on "Legal Education Through Art". We continued with the lecture carried out by Jacek Wasik from @ec.europa.eu . We discussed about cultural education in the multicultural Europe.