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Promotion and Funding - Part 1

Promotion and Funding - Part 1
Photo: © Marcelina Wellmer

Cultural funding is a top priority in Germany. But does it also aim for sustainability?
 

Text Sabrina  Apitz     /Kulturförderberatung

 

We at the Kulturförderberatung (cultural promotion consultancy) have been advising artists and cultural workers on funding and financing issues for years. And we are noticing that the issue of sustainability is becoming increasingly important. But there is a discrepancy between funding instruments and needs. The arts and culture scene has made a kind of voluntary commitment to becoming more sustainable. But there is a lack of funding instruments that meet these demands. In this context, the arts contribute to the invention and establishment of comprehensive sustainable structures by combining discourse and practice. So far, though, it has been a case of being financially able to afford to act in an ecologically responsible manner. There is a lack of appropriate support programs.

In concrete terms, this means that in addition to new funding instruments for sustainability, we need above all further training and process support in order to learn how ecological action can be implemented in our own context. This includes new forms of cooperation as well as sustainable touring. Through further training, exchange formats, additional jobs and general forums on the subject of sustainability, ecological production and carbon literacy, the players must be supported in order to be able to actively transform their production methods. After all, sustainability has definitely arrived as a subject of importance in the arts and culture. Some funding programs already take sustainable production into account, and some even require it, but unfortunately provide financial support for it only rarely if at all. That’s why we’re giving you an overview of the programs that already exist.


Initiatives at a glance

Kreatives Europa KULTUR lists promoting cooperation in the fields of innovation, sustainability and competitiveness as one of the program’s goals.

Foundations in the sustainability field are opening up and are no longer only looking for technical innovations, but also for educational or cultural projects. There are also some exciting initiatives and pilot projects in the arts and culture scene. In the pilot project Climate Balances in Cultural Institutions, the German Federal Cultural Foundation has supported 19 cultural institutions in determining their emissions.

The Aktionsnetzwerk Nachhaltigkeit (Sustainability Action Network) is a cross-sector point of contact for operational ecology in the field of culture and media. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, it initiates, supports, documents and communicates pilot projects. Work is currently underway on a freely available carbon footprint calculator for culture.

The Netzwerk Kultur und Agenda 2030 has published an extensive collection of materials on contributions, publications and guides.

From 2018 to 2020, the project office based at the German Council for Culture, which was launched with the support of the German Council for Sustainable Development and in cooperation with the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, pursued the goal of building a bridge between the sustainability discourse of the nature and environment sector and cultural policy debates.


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