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Table 1 Case-specific and comprehensive enabling factors

From: Signals of sustainability transition: Sensing enabling factors through cultural initiatives

Case-specific enabling factors (Level I)

Comprehensive enabling factors (Level II)

General impact determinants

• Support of local, regional, national and European cultural institutions

• Political recognition from public institutions at multiple levels

• Broad support from different typologies of institutional stakeholders

Political recognition and support

Networks and partnerships

• Cross-sectoral coordination within local public institutions

• Emergence or consolidation of private–public partnerships

• Definition of multi-level institutional agreements

• Establishing collaborations with schools and local educational bodies

• Establishing collaborations with healthcare institutes

• Establishing collaboration with international cultural institutions

• Establishing collaboration with research networks

• Connecting to existing international networks

Emergence and consolidation of collaborative schemes

• Involvement of local cultural operators

• Involvement of early-career artists

• Involvement of healthcare practitioners

• Active engagement of neighbourhood organisations

• Active engagement of vulnerable target groups

Involvement of co-beneficiaries

• Endorsement by renowned experts or professionals

• Active engagement of renowned experts or professionals

Involvement of renowned experts or professionals

• Activation of synergies with initiatives from the same context

• Activation of synergies with similar initiatives from different contexts

Synergies with other initiatives

• Access to European or National funds

• Allocation of dedicated budget from local or regional authorities

Access to financial resources

Resources and infrastructures

• Participation to national and international calls for funding

• Definition of public–private sponsorship agreements

• Launch of crowd-funding campaigns

• Activation of broad support networks

• Definition of a diversified funding strategy

Mobilisation of financial resources

• Use of available public venues

• Use of available private venues

• (Temporary) activation of underused spaces

• Availability of dedicated equipment

• Adoption of new technological infrastructures

Access to and activation of spaces and infrastructures

• Activation of pre-existing working groups

• Activation of a new dedicated working group

• Activation of professionals and practitioners from the impact domain

• Involvement of a core group of engaged citizens

• Involvement of volunteers

Activation of dedicated working groups

• Benefit from favourable local policy frameworks

• Benefit from enabling norms and regulation from the cultural sector

• Benefit from favourable sectoral norms and regulations from the impact domain

• Alignment with existing policies and planning documents

• Benefit from national policies supporting local cultural venues

• Activation of synergies with urban rebranding or regeneration strategies

Building on enabling norms and regulations

Norms and regulations

• Contribute to the modification of existing norms and regulations

• Introduce innovations in decision-making processes

• Inclusion as “best practice” in policy documents

• Participation in the co-design of policy recommendations

• Introduce new priorities in the policy agenda

• Contribute to the cross-sectoral alignment of policy documents

• Contribute to the development of new services

• Contribute to the formalisation of cultural practices in regulatory and strategic documents

Rooting in norms and regulations from the impact domains

• Deep rooting of cultural activities in neighbourhood dynamics

• Definition of a context-sensitive cultural offer

• Efforts to achieve the trust of target populations

• Adoption of words, images, and symbols from local communities

• Use of words, images, and symbols that refer to local identity and dynamics

• Embedment of multiple points of view

Establishing synergies with local dynamics and identity

Narratives and discourses

• Use of words, images, and symbols to strategically align with well-established narratives from the cultural sector

• Use of words, images, and symbols to strategically align with well-established narratives from the impact domain

• Adaptation of high-level principles to context-specific dynamics

Aligning with dominant policy narratives

• Establishment of synergies with broader urban rebranding strategies

• Adoption of a holistic approach to healthcare

• Prioritisation of mental health after COVID-19

• Promotion of active ageing lifestyle

• Adoption of a welcoming and well-being focused design

Aligning with discourses emerging in the impact domain

• Development of an identity as a new reference point for target communities

• Emphasis on the contribution to new urban functions

• Emphasis on the contribution to social innovation

• Pioneering in the use of digital technologies

Emphasising innovation and novelty

• Capitalise on the image and reputation of renowned experts or professionals

Capitalising on the image of guest stars

• Foster the emergence of new discourses in the local context

• Foster the emergence of new discourses in the impact domain

Fostering the emergence of new discourses

• Involve experts and practitioners from the impact domain

• Involve cultural operators

• Embed local and experiential knowledge in the cultural activities

Building on the skills and expertise of involved stakeholders

Knowledge and abilities

• Target skill development of vulnerable social groups

• Target skill development of healthcare practitioners

• Target skill development of early-career artists

• Target skill development of participants

Enhancing skills and expertise