Duct Tape and Dreams 2024 Edition

European Capital Cities of Culture (ECoC) are great programs, rich of opportunities for cities to highlight and levarage their cultural assets and uniqueness on the European scene. For 1 year, these European cities vibrate: their artists and cultural workers travel and collaborate, and their territories and communities become exceptionally visible. What happens afterwards is less talked about. There are huge successes, driving long lasting effects, and more mitigated results, where cultural organisations, programmes and projects do not survive the momentum.

As a European Cultural network often partnering with or advising ECoC's, Trans Europe Halles will focus its Duct Tape And Dreams program in 2024 to work with grassroots, youth and/or minority-led organisations in former ECoC's or ECoC candidate cities to keep them surfing on the momentum and help them on their journey to the sustainable future.

• A tailored coaching from a peer organisation who has gone through the same process in the past and has similar interest
• A possibility to have a curated workshop at your centre based on your needs
• Travel support to visit the mentor’s centre to gain hands-on experience and knowledge
• Visibility through a programme publication featuring all participants
• Travel and accommodation support to attend TEH conference in Tartu with 350+ creatives
• Access to a vibrant and diverse community of like-minded kick starters from across Europe and beyond
• A possibility to win The Phillipe Grombeer Award!

• Feb – Online introduction Q&A session hosted by TEH where participants get to meet each other and their future mentors
• Feb - Official start of the mentorship program: mentor & mentee get to know each other & co-design mentorship process
• Feb-March – A scoping visit by a mentor to your centre to carry out a detailed needs analysis
• March-Sep – A tailored online coaching (one hour every two weeks)
• April-Aug – A short visit to the mentor’s centre
• June – Presentation at TEH Conference in Tartu where you get to meet other TEH members
• Sep-Oct –Finalisation of the mentoring and delivery of short evaluation report
• Oct – The winner of the Philippe Grombeer Award comes to TEH Camp Meeting in Greece for the award ceremony.

• You are not a TEH member or associate yet
• You are based in one of the ECoC, including Marseille, Košice, Riga, Umeå, Mons, Plzeň, Wrocław, Aarhus, Paphos, Paphos, Leeuwarden, Valletta, Matera, Plovdiv, Rijeka, Galway, Kaunas, Esch-sur-Alzette, Novi Sad, Veszprém, Timisoara, Eleusis, San Sebastián, Bad Ischl.
• Up-&-coming creative space (2 years or less) led by youth, underrepresented communities, refugees, advocacy and civil society groups
• You are legally established as an organisation
• You are repurposing a building for arts and culture
• You have a legal agreement – or in negotiation – with the owner of the space about its future use
• You are motivated and have capacity to actively participate in the programme and all its activities.

If your cultural centre is one of the four lucky ones selected for 2024 edition of the mentorship program, you commit to:

• Actively participate and engaged in the program.
• Present your centre to TEH members during the next TEH conference in 2024.
• Deliver a short-written evaluation about the process, including visual documentation.
• Option to join Trans Europe Halles network as a full members or/associate.

Your application will be evaluated after the call is closed by the program’s selection committee. It includes five international experts selected among our member centres, our Executive Committee and the staff of our Coordination Office. We will announce the results after the call is closed.