About Changing Room
CHANGING ROOM is a two-year (2009-2010) mobility project that aims to test, study and evaluate a cultural professionals exchange and training programme within Trans Europe Halles, with the aim of it expanding into a EU wide initiative. Twenty-three TEH members will participate in CHANGING ROOM, hosting or sending cultural professionals and youth volunteers for periods of up to six months. This ‘taste’ of mobility is intended to stimulate longer-term exchanges and lead to an increase in the permanent engagements of non-national workers by network members. Through the experiences of the exchange participants and their hosts, combined with workshops and a study by The Sibelius Academy (Finland), CHANGING ROOM will identify opportunities, issues and barriers to the mobility of cultural workers and then propose new ideas and forms for increasing mobility. The study will examine and identify the key factors which enhance and stimulate mobility, identify its benefits and how best to raise its value. It will also provide data on mobility within the network and aim to identify the key differences and similarities in working in culture across a sample of the 27 EU states.
This project has been funded with the support from the European Commission.
Changing Room is a project by TEH in collaboration with Melkweg & Silbelius Academy.
