Are you an artist, arts educator or practitioner working with cultural diversity and community engagement? Are you interested in exploring how participatory and performing arts can foster meaningful collaboration across cultural differences, while also contributing to research and learning?
Pro Progressione, as part of the international INTRACOMP project, invites you to take part in a series of online and in-person events leading to the selection of up to three arts facilitators to carry out co-created artistic interventions in 2026.
This is a unique opportunity to take part in an international research project, join a community of arts practitioners, receive training and mentoring, and further develop your artistic practice in dialogue with intercultural and transcultural competence (ITC).
Registration is now open for the Capability Training, including the creative intervention survey for those applying as arts facilitators:
https://forms.gle/ZzHDLgH16g1T3enA7
Please register by 15 February, 2026.
We held the INTRACOMP Open Session in February – a stand-alone online training and introduction to INTRACOMP, designed to help you better understand whether the program – and the role of arts facilitator – is a good fit for you.
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026
Time: 4 pm CET
Here is the recording of the session:
About the initiative:
INTRACOMP is a Horizon Europe project redefining arts education and cultural engagement by embedding Intercultural and Transcultural Competence (ITC) into learning, policy, and digital innovation. Our approach combines theorizing ITC, developing a measurable framework, scaling access through training and technology, and shaping policy for sustainable impact. For more information, visit: https://intracomp.info/
Who are we looking for?
- Artists and arts facilitators in Hungary working in the performing arts, including dance, music, and drama
- Practitioners engaged in community-based, participatory, and/or socially engaged work, especially with marginalized or underrepresented groups, including migrants and refugees, minorities, LGBTQI+ communities, people with disabilities, and socio-economically disadvantaged groups
- Individuals or small collectives whose ongoing practice would benefit from professional mentoring and financial support for further development and implementation
- Arts professionals interested in research-informed practice, and in contributing to shared learning through documentation, reflection, and participation in an international research context
By taking part, you will:
- Participate in theoretical and practical training on intercultural and transcultural competence (ITC) in artistic practice
- Engage in an international research project, reflecting on your own practice through the lens of ITC
- Gain skills and insights that are transferable to your artistic and professional work
- Join a wider network of practitioners working across arts, education, and policy contexts
If selected as an arts facilitator, you will also:
- Receive financial support to implement a co-created artistic intervention related to your own practice
- Receive mentoring and professional support from an international consortium of researchers and arts practitioners
- Expand your methodological and artistic toolkit
- Contribute to shaping future tools and frameworks for embedding ITC in formal and non-formal education and policy-making
- Become part of an international community of practice
Selected arts facilitators will build and expand on their existing artistic practice and/or projects already underway. By further developing work rooted in real contexts and relationships, they will be well-positioned to experiment with, reflect on, and contribute to the emerging ITC framework, while integrating INTRACOMP learnings into their practice in the long term.
The working language of the international project is English. While the artistic interventions themselves may take place in other languages, participation in the workshops, documentation, and engagement with the international team will require a good working knowledge of English.
THE SELECTION PROCESS:
Capability Training Budapest – February 20, 21 & 23, 2026
A three-day, in-person training and collaborative process led by INTRACOMP scientific leader Nicholas Rowe and Pro Progressione, focusing cultural democracy, participatory arts and the CultureComp competence framework. Participants will enhance their ability to measure and articulate the value and impact of arts education in culturally complex environments.
More specifically, they will:
• develop advanced skills in the use of the CultureComp framework
• extend intercultural and transcultural knowledge and understanding, specifically within the facilitation of participatory, embodied performing arts
• feel motivated to explore cultural democracy further within inclusive arts education practice.
Participation is also part of the selection process and is therefore compulsory for those who wish to be considered as arts facilitators. At the same time, the training is open to other interested participants — especially those who took part in previous INTRACOMP capability training — subject to available places.
Participation does not automatically guarantee selection as arts facilitator, but the training itself is designed as a stand-alone learning opportunity that will benefit all participants.
The in-person training will include a pitching session where individuals or teams applying with a project will present their proposed creative intervention in a 5-minute pitch with space for reflection and peer-to-peer feedback.
Final selection will be made based on the completed surveys and in-person pitches. Selected arts facilitators will be informed by the end of February.
Format: Three sessions of approx. 3-4 hours each
Tentative schedule (subject to minor changes):
Friday, February 20. | 15:00–18:00
Saturday, February 21. | 10:00–15:00
Monday, February 23. | 15:00–18:00
Group size: maximum 25 participants
Certification: Participants who complete all workshops in the program will receive the CultureComp Digital Badge. Participants completing only part of the program will receive relevant micro-badges (with the option to complete the full CultureComp badge later online via the CultureComp MOOC).
IMPLEMENTATION – MARCH–JULY 2026:
Following the February training:
- Selected practitioners will develop and implement their co-created interventions with support from Pro Progressione and the INTRACOMP team
- Interventions will contribute to research, documentation, and the development of the ITC framework: they will serve as case studies through which the conditions that enable — or inhibit — intercultural and transcultural competence across different learning environments can be assessed
- Selected facilitators are expected to produce a tangible output, and engage in documentation and research processes
- Pro Progressione will act as curator, coordinator, and support structure throughout the process
FUNDING:
• 1–3 projects will be funded with a minimum support of 3,250 euros gross per project. Final allocation will depend on the number and scope of selected projects.
• Funding will be paid in 2–3 instalments
• Eligibility: practitioners must be able to contract and invoice according to Hungarian regulations (e.g. invoicing entity or EKHO-eligible contract)
KEY DATES:
• January 2026 – Open call
• February 5, 2026 – Open Session
• February 20, 21 & 23, 2026 – Capability training and selection of arts facilitators (Budapest)
• March–July 2026 – Implementation of artistic interventions
• August-September 2026 – reporting
• October-December 2026 – follow-up analysis
The venue and final schedule of the training will be published shortly.
Please apply and register for the INTRACOMP training by completing this form by February 15, 2026.
For questions, contact: Livia Marschall at marschall.livia@proprogressione.com