LATRA EE

Their core work

LATRA is a Greek creative SME based on the island of Lesbos that works at the intersection of arts, education, and social transformation. Their practical contribution to EU projects lies in applying arts-based methods to public engagement and learning — whether helping communities connect with science outside formal classrooms or using artistic practice to navigate the human consequences of digital change. They bring cultural and creative perspectives into research consortia that would otherwise be dominated by technical and academic voices. Their work is grounded in how people actually experience societal shifts: technological disruption, democratic stress, and the changing world of work.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

LATRA began their H2020 participation focused on science education — specifically the informal learning that happens in museums, community spaces, and everyday environments outside schools (SySTEM 2020, 2018). By 2020, their focus had shifted meaningfully toward broader societal transformation: artificial intelligence, the future of work, democratic fragility, and digital inclusion — all approached through an arts-based lens. This trajectory suggests an organization that started in educational outreach and is evolving toward a fuller role in cultural and civic change-making, particularly around how societies absorb and respond to technological disruption.

LATRA is moving toward projects that use creative and artistic methods to address large-scale societal tensions — AI displacement, democratic erosion, digital exclusion — making them a useful partner for any Horizon Europe project seeking culturally grounded engagement or citizen-facing components.

How they like to work

LATRA has participated in two projects without ever taking the coordinator role, suggesting they function as a specialist contributor within larger research consortia rather than as a project driver. Their footprint across 31 unique partners in 21 countries from just two projects indicates they work in genuinely large, multi-national consortia — not small clusters. This profile is typical of a niche creative or civil society actor brought in to lead a specific work package (public engagement, arts methodology, dissemination to non-academic audiences) while academic and research institutions carry the scientific lead.

Despite only two projects, LATRA has accumulated 31 unique consortium partners across 21 countries — a notably broad network for an SME of this size, indicating they have been placed in large, well-connected European consortia. No visible geographic concentration beyond their Greek base; their partners span the EU broadly.

What sets them apart

LATRA occupies a rare niche: a small Greek island-based creative enterprise that can credibly connect artistic and cultural practice with EU research on digital society, science communication, and civic resilience. Most organizations in the Society pillar are either universities or large NGOs; LATRA offers something different — a small, agile, practice-based voice with actual project experience. For consortium builders seeking a partner who can translate complex research into community-facing formats or bring arts methodology into social science projects, LATRA is an unusual but validated option.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ARTSFORMATION
  The largest of their two projects (€530,500 EC funding) and the most thematically ambitious — combining arts practice, AI, democracy, and digital transformation in a single research frame, reflecting a significant expansion of LATRA's scope.
• SySTEM 2020
  Their entry into H2020, focused on science learning outside formal education — a niche that positions LATRA at the boundary between cultural institutions and science communication policy.