SINCE 2016, WHEN THE INITIATIVE TOOK SHAPE, STARTS HAS ORGANISED, FUNDED, AND MONITORED NUMEROUS RESIDENCIES THROUGH DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
S+T+ARTS4WATER II MORE
Bringing together art, technology and science, S+T+ARTS4WaterII – Ports in Transformation is dedicated to tackling the complex environmental and societal challenges present in Europe’s ports and port cities.
Duration: 36 months
Consortium: VITO, Gluon, Waag Future Lab, TBA21, Camargo Foundation, OGR, PiNA, Dublin City University ADAPT Centre, Beta Festival (IR), Klimat Biennale – Kunsthaus Wien and Drugo More.
Management Contact Person: Aurélie Delater (VITO), Charlotte Gruber (GLUON), Zeynep Birsel (WAAG)
S+T+ARTS4AFRICA MORE
With S+T+ARTS4AFRICA, European structures experienced with S+T+ARTS approaches will partner with change-makers in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as existing Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH), and together, they will push for innovation on a regional level by facilitating the involvement of local and international artists with regional stakeholders (industry, regional authorities, SME, NGOs, startups, art institutions, etc) and promoting the concrete outcomes of these collaborations, aiming at three overarching objectives. Those being: 1) accelerate the transition towards a more competitive African economy by stimulating development and uptake of novel technologies that address regional challenges; 2) highlight – through the S+T+ARTS Prize Africa award, the regional rich and complex relationships between technology, arts and culture, and 3) level the regional perception on the potential of innovation and breakthrough technologies´ application to local and indigenous issues.
Duration: May 2023 – October 2024
Consortium: INOVA+ (Portugal) (Coordinator), Ars Electronica (Austria), GLUON (Belgium), PiNA (Slovenia).
Associated Partners: Emerging Communities Africa (Nigeria), Buni Hub (Tanzania), hapaFoundation (Ghana), Picha asbl (DR Congo), Goethe Institut (Germany/Nigeria)
Management Contact Person: Tânia Moreira & Patrícia Carvalho
AIR MORE
The Air for European Resilience (AIR) project is making available for the first time the technology and know-how of two of Europe’s leading supercomputing centers in Stuttgart and Barcelona. In this way, AIR is born from the will of 8 organizations from 5 different countries belonging to different fields of knowledge – technology, research, industry, and culture – to establish new methodologies, processes, indicators, etc. that allow the incorporation of arts in science and digital innovation. Work is based on the concept of air, as a common and transversal theme. To this end, AIR will host a total of 10 S+T+ART residencies for artists.
Duration: April 2023 – November 2024
Consortium: Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg (DE) (coord.) / High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (DE) / Barcelona Super Computing Center (ES) / Sony Computer Science Laboratories – Rome (Sony CSL – Rome) (IT) / Fundacion Épica La Fura dels Baus (ES) / PiNA (SI) / In4Art (NL) / RCR LAB·A (ES).
Management Contact Person: Matvey Fridman (MSC)
GRIN MORE
Art-driven innovation for digital and green transition in European Regions (GRIN) aims to develop effective solutions for Europe’s digital and ecological transition. Through 12 artistic residencies, the project aims to increase the creation of multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, technology providers, engineers, designers, and artists, and foster the development of 12 new artworks/solutions in line with a human-centred approach to innovation. GRIN also aims to scale up new business ventures and create five new STARTS Regional centres, while raising public awareness and knowledge on content, technology, and processes empowering all citizens to act in the green and digital transitions.
Duration: February 2023 – September 2024
Consortium: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (coord., AT), Artshare (PT), KILOWATT (IT), CINECA (IT), , Coliseu Porto Ageas (PT), Oulu University of Applied Sciences (FI).
Management Contact Person: Violeta Vasileva, violeta.vasileva@artshare.pt
S+T+ARTS in the City MORE
With STARTS in the City, we aim at enhancing art-driven innovation at local level and human-centered technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, new digital media, smart cities, high performance computing, data science, or biotechnologies, that will be able to put in the market products and services that have a positive ecological, societal, and ethical impact. By combining arts and creativity with science and tech for good, STARTS in the City will contribute to the emergence of ecologically conscious technology uses that answer the current challenges that regions are facing, in sectors such as green manufacturing, sustainable urban development, security, recyclable textiles, digital literacy, and more.
Duration: April 2023 – November 2024
Consortium: GLUON (BE) (Coordinator), Ars Electronica (AT), Hac Te (ES), INOVA+ (PT), Kersnikova (SI), MEET | Digital Culture Center (IT)
Management Contact Person: Aurélie Delater
MUSAE MORE
MUSAE aims to set up a Human-Centred Factory Model, based on the Design Future Art-driven (DFA) method, and integrate it in a (European) Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) network, to support companies in guiding strategic digital technology innovation and address future challenges in the food domain to improve people and planet wellbeing. MUSAE will establish a deep connection with the S+T+ARTS ecosystem, bringing together expertise in design, art, nutrition and wellbeing, and human-machine interaction. MUSAE will run 20 S+T+ARTS residencies involving 20 artists and 10 tech companies working with 3 main technologies – Artificial Intelligence, Wearables, Robotics – to envision 10 future scenarios for technologies application and design 10 prototypes, thus opening up new markets and innovations. To validate replicability, MUSAE will set up and activate one Factory within the DIH partner and create the Factory Model Pack and the Label that will allow other DIHs to adopt it.
Duration: September 2022 – August 2025
Consortium: Politecnico di Milano (IT), Ab.Acus (IT), Universitat de Barcelona (ES), MADE (IT), PAL Robotics (ES), Gluon (BE), University College Dublin (IE), The University of Manchester (UK).
Management Contact Person: Marita Canina, marita.canina@polimi.it 
Hungry EcoCities MORE
Hungry EcoCities puts forward a high-level alliance between science, technology, and the arts, to effectively explore how digital technologies & applications can lead in turn to reduced food waste, more sustainable value chains, eco-friendly attitudes, and more ethical food consumption. How can we develop ways of creating a more healthy, sustainable, and affordable agri-food system for all? In Hungry EcoCities, studios, universities, growers, and agricultural specialists team up with, artists and creative thinkers to come up with new ideas for the future food system. Hungry EcoCities will host 20 S+T+ARTS residencies and will be working towards defining, designing, and developing AI-enabled responsible, art-driven solutions for the end-users in the agri-food industries.
Duration: September 2022 – February 2026
Consortium: Brno University of Technology (coord., CZ), KU Leuven Institute Leuven.AI (BE) , CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati (IT), Studio Other Spaces (GE), In4Art (NL), Mendel University (CZ), NethWork (NL), and FundingBox (PL).
Management Contact Person: Pavel Smrž (BuoT) and Rodolfo Groenewoud-van Vliet (In4Art) ✉
ReSilence MORE
The main objective of the ReSilence project is to support the development of art- driven technologies for designing the soundscape of future cities through the collaboration of artists, architects, urban designers, scientists, engineers and researchers.
Duration: September 2022 – February 2025
Consortium: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), Maurice Benayoun (FR), Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (GER), Maastricht University (NL), Thessaloniki Concert Hall (GR), University of Genova (IT), University Pompeu Fabra (ES), WESOUND (GER)
Management Contact Person: Stefanos Vrochidis , stefanos@iti.gr
Better Factory MORE
Better Factory supports manufacturing SMEs to collaborate with artists (from the S+T+ARTS network) and technology providers, to develop new and personalized products. It supplies technology for SMEs to become cyber-physical systems, transforming them into lean-agile production facilities capable of manufacturing new and personalised products along with existing ones.
Duration: October 2020 – September 2024
Coordinator: VTT (FI)
Partners: INOVA+ (PT), INESC (PT), SUPSI (CH), AIMEN (ES), CUT (CY), FHG (DE), NCR (SK), GLUON (BE), WAAG (NL), ED (GR), FBA (PL), TLX (BE), MWCapital (ES), HBD (FI), HLX (IT), TDS (FI), INFOTECH (SK), GESTALT (DE), IN4ART (NL), UO (FI), CMT (RO), TECOS (SI), ICT-CLUSTER (BG), FPQC (LV), BIC (PL), CLUTEX (CZ), CCIPB (HU)
Management Contact Person: “>Magnus Simons (VTT, FI) ✉
Communication Contact Person: Marta Portalés (MWCapital, ES) ✉
+100 STARTS RESIDENCIES WERE DEVELOPED.
