The Perform Europe Toolbox is a collection of practical resources designed to support performing arts practitioners, networks and policymakers looking to rethink international touring in their own context.
It brings together tools that were developed, tested and refined during the second edition of Perform Europe. These tools are based on real experiences and lessons learnt from the 42 selected partnerships, which toured across 40 Creative Europe countries, experimenting with cross-border touring practices.
The toolbox is a practical translation of Perform Europe Guidebook which can be used and applied to anyone interested in exploring specific themes – such as slow touring, local anchoring, inclusion, ecological production or governance models – and draw on concrete methods and templates.
Tools included in the Toolbox:
- Conversation Starter: A practical conversation-based toolkit for developing international performing arts collaborations and partnerships. It helps partners explore shared interests, align goals, and co-design greener and more inclusive ways of working.
- Perform Europe Strategies & Tools: A set of posters presenting 12 strategies and their associated tools, collected from selected partnerships through the Perform Europe Learning Trajectory. They bring together concrete ideas and tools for implementing greener, more inclusive, and more diverse international performing arts practices, illustrated with examples from Perform Europe projects.
- Strategies & Tools Postcard Set: A set of 12 postcards presenting the Perform Europe strategies through key ideas and guiding questions. They are designed to spark discussion and support reflection on how the strategies could be applied within participants’ own contexts and partnerships.
- Policy Levers Tool: The Policy Levers Tool supports reflection, dialogue and collaboration around policy frameworks for international touring. Policymakers, funders, networks and cultural organisations can use it to analyse existing systems, structure policy conversations and inspire programme design. The tool also works well in workshops or learning settings, where it helps identify ambitions, obstacles and policy levers relevant to specific contexts.
Image: IETM Focus Bradford 2025, Learning Trajectory Workshop © Nida Mozuraite
