Led by researcher Luísa Santos Institution(ing)s is a European Cooperation Project that encourages contemporary art and cultural organizations to co-create innovative institutional models towards social inclusion, environmental, economic, and artistic transformation.

Coordinated by the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, it is composed of eight organizations of different scales, impacts and target audiences, in seven European countries. Each partner performs specific roles in the art sector and responds to shared planetary challenges from each of their situated practices and (economic, social, cultural, political) contexts across the European continent (N, E, S, W).

By coming together with differences and commonalities in a sort of an institution without walls, a living organism in constant processes of exchange and transformation of practices, the Institution(ing)s will bring innovative perspectives to respond to cross-cutting challenges and contribute to the strengthening of European citizenship in a project of social equity and sustainability.