Europe Beyond Access Survey on Accessibility in Performing Arts Education
Europe Beyond Access survey about accessibility in Higher Performing Arts Education is open until 20th March 2025.
Europe Beyond Access (EBA) is an international project that supports the creation of new works by Deaf and/or disabled artists from across Europe. It involves 10 European dance and performing arts organisations and is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. EBA is the biggest transnational project in the world supporting disabled and/or Deaf artists, to break the glass ceilings of contemporary dance and theatre and to become Europe’s next artistic leaders. Project Arts Centre in Dublin is one of the EBA partners.
EBA is researching access, lack of access and experience of disabled students in higher education institutions in the performing arts in Creative Europe countries and the UK. This includes theatre schools, dance academies, conservatories, and similar institutions that provide practical, skills-based education for those seeking to enter the professional performing arts, for example as actors, dancers, technicians, directors, choreographers, producers, stage managers, lighting or costume or stage designers, or production managers.
Research, coordinated by On the Move, will also analyse what alternative educational and professional development paths have been followed by disabled people who could not access mainstream educational institutions.
As part of the research process, there are three surveys that focus on three target groups. People can choose which one to fill in depending on which target group is most relevant for them.
Survey Deadline 20th March 2025
- Survey 1: Disabled* Performing Artists & Culture Professionals (including those in training) *including those with disabilities, and those who are Deaf, Neurodivergent and chronically ill.
- Survey 2: Higher Education Institutions in the Performing Arts
- Survey 3: Performing Arts Organisations
For more information visit On the Move website. OTM support artists and professionals to operate internationally while working to reimagine mobility as fairer, more diverse, and more sustainable.