HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsOpenHORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-01

“Artistic intelligence” : harnessing the power of the arts to address complex challenges, enhance soft skills and boost innovation and competitiveness

Horizon Europe

Per project€5M

1 phase

Deadline:2026-09-23

FundingLump Sum

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Strategic Analysis

This call seeks to unlock the transformative power of arts in addressing complex societal challenges, fostering innovation, and enhancing soft skills. A winning proposal will demonstrate a robust, evidence-based methodology for integrating art-science-technology collaborations, developing concrete use cases, and establishing clear, measurable impacts on policy, industry, and society.

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Suggested TRL Range

TRL 2 → 6

Based on programme defaults

Scope Activities (5)

SC1

Gather evidence on art-science-technology collaborations for addressing societal challenges and spurring innovation in science and technology.

SC2

Collect case studies, produce and disseminate guidance, toolkits, and methodologies supporting policymakers in promoting these collaborations and strategies for cross-disciplinary innovation. Mechanisms, span of possible interventions, applicability to diverse fields and contexts will be clarified and exemplified.

SC3

Develop concrete use cases, such as (but not limited to): artists supporting ethical, inclusive, human-centred AI; addressing societal challenges and complex transformations through art-science-technology collaboration, advancing emotional storytelling, experiential art and public engagement through AI and real-time data; public sector roles in the art-science-technology uptake; role of artists in catalysing innovation in policymaking; participatory art-science-technology initiatives and citizen science.

SC4

Develop and test qualitative and quantitative methodologies and key performance indicators for evaluating such interventions, assessing their impacts, measuring their medium to long-term benefits and identifying what constitutes success.

SC5

Increase opportunities for artists to engage in art-science-technology collaborations, through network establishment or consolidation, interdisciplinary initiatives or other methods.

Expected Outcomes (4)

EO1

The potential of art-science and/or technology collaborations to address societal challenges and drive innovation is better understood. Guidance, toolkits, and actionable methodologies are developed to promote these collaborations, providing policymakers, professionals, and training organisations with clarity on intervention scope, applicability across various fields, and evaluation methods, metrics, or tools.

EO2

New and existing national, European or international networks for art-science-technology collaborations are established or strengthened, expanding opportunities for artists to engage with science and technology.

EO3

Approaches, methodologies and model interventions for integrating arts and creative practices to enhance soft skills across public and private sectors are developed, tested and disseminated.

EO4

The effectiveness of critical artists’ engagement in interdisciplinary teams is demonstrated alongside the assessment of the viability of research-intensive emerging technologies through at least three low technology readiness level (TRL) pilot demonstrators.