Odense Municipality

Arts on Prescription (AoP) in the Baltic Sea Region 2023-2025 is an Interreg Baltic Sea Region project co-funded by the European Union.
The project’s partners are jointly developing a generic AoP programme concept, based on existing evidence and best practice, and adapting it to local conditions in partnering countries – Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden. The programme will be piloted by local and regional public authorities in cooperation with cultural institutions and evaluated for its health effects, organisational set-up and economic benefits.
Additionally, the project partners are developing an online Arts on Prescription Practitioner’s Guide, which will aid and support public authorities, cultural and health institutions engage people with mental health challenges in social and non-therapy art activities to improve their mental wellbeing.
In the final phase of the project the AoP concept programme will be transferred to other cities and regions who will also have access to and support of the online practitioner’s guide and a rent-an-expert programme. Furthermore, the project partners will initiate a dialogue with national authorities and health insurance funds in order to improve the structural support and financing options for AoP in the long-term.