Announcing the three projects receiving support through the Creative Climate changemakers programme.
Creative Climate Changemakers (CCC) – previously Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) – is a transformation programme for creative changemakers committed to taking action on the climate crisis through the arts and culture. CCC is delivered by Julie’s Bicycle in partnership with Vert le Futur, initiated and funded by Pro Helvetia and Stiftung Mercator Schweiz.
In March 2026, CCC brought together 24 inspiring artists, cultural workers, and creative activists from different artforms and from all regions in Switzerland.
To build the capacity for creative climate action, foster new opportunities for collaboration, and demonstrate the diversity and range of culture-led responses to environmental action, participants could apply for one of three seed grants for the value of CHF 10.000.
2026 Seed Grant Recipients
The CCC seed grants will support the development of the following projects:
The Feminist Alpine Punk Parade
The Alpine Feminist Punk Parade is a collaborative art and climate justice project that explores Alpine land-based traditions through listening, collecting, and enhancing voices in response to the climate breakdown.
Within this process, the project will develop an artistic output in the form of an embodied celebratory parade from Valais to Vaud. The aim is to merge practices and connect rural and urban regions around food cultures along the journey through walks, workshops, storytelling and hosting shared meals. Holding space for experimentation and exchange around Alpine ecosystems will be a vessel to create links of solidarity for climate resilience.
Para Narra Institute – The Future is Unwritten
Para Narra Institute – The Future is Unwritten is a pilot project that explores how communities can collectively imagine more just and desirable climate futures. Through workshops focused on environmental challenges and transitions in Switzerland, participants will develop new ways of understanding change, new possibilities for action, testing how narratives can challenge dominant imaginaries.
The project will test a transferable workshop methodology and produce a publication documenting the ideas, insights, and relationships generated through the process.
Permasoftware Assembly
Permasoftware Assembly is a travelling residency that brings together artist-coders and climate activists from across Switzerland to develop low-footprint digital tools for climate action.
Through three regional gatherings, participants will collaborate on designing simpler, more durable, and easy-to-use software for campaigning and collective organising, while building a cross-regional network to explore practical alternatives to conventional digital campaign tools.
The three funded projects represent very different approaches to creative climate action, reflecting the richness and breadth of ideas emerging from the programme. The jury appreciated the way several applications succeeded in building meaningful bridges between artistic practice and broader societal questions, particularly from an Innovation & Society perspective.
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