ICARE project has been launched!

A European project that invites adults with migrant experience to reinterpret European cultural heritage as co-creators, through participatory art and education began in December 2025. ICARE runs under the Erasmus+ programme, Cooperation Partnerships in Adult Education, and will continue until November 2028.

Cultural heritage becomes meaningful when people are invited to reinterpret it through their own voices and experiences.

ICARE project team

ICARE replaces one-way teaching with a partnership. Adults with migrant experience work together with educators, artists and cultural institutions as active co-creators of culture: they co-decide the shape of the activities, bring their own perspectives, and reinterpret local European heritage through their life experiences.

Along the way, participants develop key competences for lifelong learning such as multilingual communication and cultural awareness to digital, and civic & entrepreneurial skills, with a particular emphasis on linguistic and cultural mediation.

The interdisciplinary consortium brings together museums and civic organisations from four European countries, each with long experience in participatory education, language education, cultural mediation and work with people with migrant backgrounds.

Over the next three years, the partners will develop a theoretical framework for participatory adult education in cultural institutions, informed by consultations with people with migrant experience; organise an international European Art Camp in Warsaw; and carry out four experimental participatory cultural projects, each culminating in a public presentation (an exhibition, a performance, a guided tour, an audio guide or an artistic intervention), accompanied by workshops for local communities.

The experience of all four projects will then be distilled into a practical manual for cultural institutions and educators across Europe, showing how culture, heritage and art can support inclusive adult education and social cohesion.

Updates on the project and its activities will be published on this website and on the project’s Facebook page.

Project consortium

Project name

I Connect, Appreciate, Reinterpret, and Engage – Migrant Participatory Project Learning Through Reinterpretation of European Cultural Heritage (I.C.A.R.E.)

Date of implementation

1 December 2025 – 30 November 2028