Arts on Prescription in the Baltic Sea Region
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Arts on Prescription

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.2 Responsive public services
Project type
Core Project
Implementation
January 2023 - December 2025
Technical details

Arts on Prescription

The project Arts on Prescription helps public authorities, cultural and health institutions engage people with mental health challenges in social and non-therapy art activities to improve their mental wellbeing.
Project summary

Arts on prescription is a concept to improve the mental well-being of citizens. The idea is that people with a diagnosed mental condition such as depression, stress or anxiety, or people at risk of developing such a condition (e.g. due to loneliness) get a prescription not for medicine or therapy, but for taking part in regular arts activities in group settings. This has been proven to have positive health effects. The challenge that public authorities face when planning and implementing such a programme lies in the underdeveloped cooperation between the culture and health sector, the lack of knowledge on how to set up, organise and evaluate a programme and the lack of long-term financing. The partners of the project “Arts on Prescription in the Baltic Sea Region” will jointly develop a model programme that is based on state-of-the-art evidence and experience, but adaptable to different local conditions and public health systems. The programme will be piloted by local and regional public authorities in cooperation with cultural institutions and evaluated for its health effects, organisational set-up and economic benefits. The arts on prescription model is then transferred to other cities and regions who are supported with an online practitioner’s guide and a rent-an-expert programme. Moreover, the project will initiate a dialogue with national authorities and health insurance funds in order to improve the structural support and financing options for arts on prescription.

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Budgets

Arts on Prescription
in numbers.
  • 3.51
    Million
    Total
  • 2.81
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Success indicators

Arts on Prescription
in numbers.
35 Organisations reached with 1 Solutions in offer 1 Solutionsin use 1 Pilotactivities 26 Organisationsin the project
  • 55.39906279999999610.3861862904529
  • 53.0800605999999968.81226063357034
  • 53.08119558.7968355
  • 55.679112.570609
  • 57.313473525.2792807
  • 56.665447222.4944069
  • 53.426660414.5595894
  • 53.455706114.5611662
  • 59.31687118.0633255
  • 65.658296221.9429874
  • 65.583118722.1459535
  • 60.448910322.2960629
  • 54.898213923.9044817
Lead partnerOdense Municipality
  • Town
    Odense C
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Fyn
Total partner budget
598,486.44
Ministry for health, women and consumer Protection of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
  • Town
    Bremen
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Total partner budget
121,000.00
Bremer Volkshochschule - adult education centre/Ministry for Culture
  • Town
    Bremen
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Total partner budget
339,510.00
University of Southern Denmark
  • Town
    København
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Byen København
Total partner budget
385,755.00
Cesis Municipality
  • Town
    Cesis
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Vidzeme
Total partner budget
225,991.20
Saldus district municipality
  • Town
    Saldus
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Kurzeme
Total partner budget
221,991.20
Westpomeranian Region
  • Town
    Szczecin
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Szczeciński
Total partner budget
152,590.57
Media Dizajn
  • Town
    Szczecin
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Miasto Szczecin
Total partner budget
169,640.00
Secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS)
  • Town
    Stockholm
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Stockholms län
Total partner budget
380,049.98
Sunderby folk high school
  • Town
    S. Sunderbyn
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Norrbottens län
Total partner budget
245,735.27
Norrbotten Region
  • Town
    Luleå
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Norrbottens län
Total partner budget
279,440.00
Turku University of Applied Sciences
  • Town
    Turku
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Varsinais-Suomi
Total partner budget
267,320.50
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
  • Town
    Kaunas
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
123,775.40

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