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[Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action](https://re-imagine-europe.eu)

_New Perspectives for Action_ is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project by
Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary art organisations across 
Europe, and builds on the results of the previous Re-Imagine Europe project (2017–2021).

_New Perspectives for Action_ aims to equip and empower young Europeans through artistic 
practices to better withstand societal challenges triggered by rapid climate change. To 
achieve this aim, the project responds to the needs of artists, organisations and audiences.

Re-Imagine Europe is a collaboration of Sonic Acts and Paradiso (The Netherlands), Elevate 
Festival (Austria), INA GRM (France), A4 (Slovakia), Borealis (Norway), KONTEJNER 
(Croatia), BEK (Norway), RUPERT (Lithuania), Disruption Network Lab (Germany), 
Semibreve (Portugal), Parco d’Arte Vivente (Italy), Kontrapunkt (North Macedonia) and 
Radio Web MACBA (Spain).

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Sonic Acts (NL) was founded in 1994 and is best known for its international festival, with a strong focus on the developments at the intersections of art, technology, music and science. Sonic Acts has become a leading platform for international projects, research and the commissioning and co-production of new artworks.\
[www.sonicacts.com](www.sonicacts.com/), [www.verticalcinema.org](http://www.verticalcinema.org/), [www.darkecology.net](http://www.darkecology.net/)  

Paradiso (NL) is an internationally renowned cultural venue founded in 1968, which organises over 900 music, visual and performing arts events per year. Paradiso has developed many cultural projects and large-scale festivals, presenting events within and outside of the organisation itself.\
[www.paradiso.nl](http://www.paradiso.nl/)  

Elevate Festival (AT) has been held every year since 2005 in different places around Graz, offering a unique combination of concerts, political debates and films. Elevate Festival has established itself as an innovative, hybrid festival that questions art through politics.\
[www.elevate.at](http://www.elevate.at/)

INA GRM (FR) was founded in 1974 to preserve France’s radio and television archives and partners with broadcasters and producers. INA gathers, preserves, digitises, restores, and distributes French radio and television archive contents.\
[www.inagrm.com](http://www.inagrm.com/) 

Borealis (NO)  is a festival for genre crossing music and art that takes place over 5 days each March in Bergen, Norway. The festival presents concerts, installations, performances, lectures, film screenings and radio broadcasts at concert venues of all sizes across the city –  from art galleries and cultural arenas to surprising places you may not have visited before.\
[https://www.borealisfestival.no/en/home/](https://www.borealisfestival.no/en/home/)

KONTEJNER (HR), an NGO based in Zagreb, is engaged in curatorial work, the organisation of art festivals and other public events, education and social theory. Its main field of interest is progressive contemporary art which investigates the role and meaning of science, technology and the body in our society. Within this field, KONTEJNER focuses on urgent and current phenomena, with special regard for the most provocative, fascinating and intriguing subjects and topics – including those perceived as taboo.\
[www.kontejner.org](https://www.kontejner.org/en/)  

A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture (SK) is an independent centre for contemporary art in the centre of Bratislava established in 2004. It is oriented towards creation, presentation and education in innovative forms of theatre, dance, music, film, visual culture and new media art.\
[www.a4.sk](http://www.a4.sk/)  

BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (NO) is an interdisciplinary production centre for art and new technology, established in 2000. BEK develops, produces and communicates projects in the intersection of contemporary art, technology, theory and social critique.\
[https://bek.no/en/](https://bek.no/en/)  

Rupert (LT) Rupert is an independent, publicly funded centre for art, residencies and education, located in Vilnius, Lithuania. Rupert has been operating since 2012. Rupert’s mission is to establish close cooperation between artists, thinkers, researchers and other cultural actors through transdisciplinary programmes and residencies.\
[https://rupert.lt/](https://rupert.lt/)  

Disruption Network Lab (DE) is an ongoing platform of events and research focused on the intersection of politics, technology and society. We are a Berlin-based nonprofit organisation in Germany (Disruption Network Lab e. V.) that has since 2014 organised participatory, interdisciplinary, international events at the intersection of human rights and technology with the objective of strengthening freedom of speech, and exposing the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful.\
[www.disruptionlab.org](https://www.disruptionlab.org/)  

Semibreve (PT) Semibreve is a exploratory electronic music and digital art festival taking place in Braga, Portugal. Since 2011 Semibreve has consistently presented a forward-thinking programme featuring some of the most revered electronic music and cross-disciplinary work by artists from around the world, as well as maintaining an active role in the promotion of the digital arts in Portugal.\
[https://www.festivalsemibreve.com/](https://www.festivalsemibreve.com/)  

PAV – Parco Arte Vivente (IT) is an experimental center of contemporary art. The PAV includes an open-air exhibition site and an interactive museum intended as a meeting place and laboratory experiences aimed at the dialogue between art and nature, biotechnology and ecology, between the public and artists.\
[http://parcoartevivente.it/pav/](http://parcoartevivente.it/pav/)  

Kontrapunkt (MK) Kontrapunkt is an organization established in 2001 in Skopje, with main focus on critical theory, political philosophy, critical activism, and the relationship between art and politics. Since its beginning, Kontrapunkt has been committed to the idea of dissemination of culture and cultural production.\
[https://kontrapunkt-mk.org/](https://kontrapunkt-mk.org/)  

Ràdio Web MACBA (ES) started in 2006 as an online project from the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art exploring the possibilities of the Internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition.\
[www.rwm.macba.cat](http://www.rwm.macba.cat/)