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EU Funding Goals

First Two Years: Building Foundations and Networks

• Objectives: Establish a robust transnational network of cultural organizations, artists, and communities interested in shared European cultural traditions, especially winter and seasonal celebrations like Samhain.
• Activities: Participate as a partner in EU projects related to cross-border cultural exchanges, focusing on shared themes such as street theatre, seasonal festivities, and winter traditions. Engage in learning opportunities, workshops, and knowledge exchange to understand best practices in waste reduction, community engagement, and participatory arts.
• Funding Utilisation: Leverage EU project funding to facilitate network-building activities, joint research on shared cultural practices, and initial pilot collaborations. This phase emphasizes capacity-building, learning, and establishing partnerships.

Five Years: Developing Larger Projects and Enhanced Services

• Objectives: Launch significant collaborative projects with clear deliverables - such as digital archives of shared European winter traditions, educational tools, and participatory arts initiatives - while reducing dependency on in-kind support.
• Activities: Coordinate multi-national projects that produce tangible outputs, such as digital repositories of street theatre traditions, educational templates for schools across Europe, and community engagement programs. Focus on refining waste reduction practices and sustainable production models learned during initial years.
• Funding Utilisation: Apply for EU project grants targeting cultural preservation, digital innovation, and sustainable arts. Use funding to support project management, dissemination, and scaling of successful models. Emphasize fair remuneration for project organisers and artists, aligning with EU priorities on fair working conditions.

Ten Years: Coordinating Multiple Projects and Promoting Shared Heritage

• Objectives: Position as a leader in cross-border cultural collaboration, linking projects that highlight the shared Celtic and winter traditions across Europe, especially between Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe.
• Activities: Establish a pan-European network of similar cultural initiatives, organize transnational festivals, and develop comprehensive digital archives, educational resources, and waste reduction guidelines. Focus on influencing policy, advocating for sustainable arts practices, and fostering intergenerational and cross-cultural understanding.
• Funding Utilisation: Secure EU funding to coordinate large-scale projects, develop high-level outputs such as interactive digital archives, educational platforms, and policy recommendations. Engage in advocacy and knowledge transfer activities to inform and inspire other projects, emphasizing sustainability and cultural inclusivity.

Summary of Long-Term Vision: Over three phases, the project will evolve from local network-building and learning to implementing large-scale, impactful initiatives, and ultimately to leading transnational collaborations that celebrate and preserve Europe’s shared winter and seasonal traditions. The funding will enable sustainable growth, fair compensation, digital innovation, and environmental responsibility - particularly in participatory arts and street theatre - strengthening the cultural fabric across borders and generations.

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Strengths

• Creating templates for the reduction of waste in large-scale participatory arts events, particularly street theatre.
• Educating people about the cultural heritage, particularly the traditional calendar and seasonal celebrations of Ireland and Britain.
• Collecting and organising data referencing shared cultural practices across Europe.
• Fostering and inspiring community connectivity.
• Community engagement.
• Designing and delivering excellent participatory events that are wholly inclusive and focus on incorporating marginalised groups such as elderly people, refugees, youth and people with disabilities.
• Organising large-scale collaborative arts events.
• Festival production.
• Archiving.
• Film and Photography organisation.
• Cultivation of traditional arts.
• Zero-waste arts practice templates and workshop organisation and delivery.
• Education in all above areas.