Many governments have implemented social distancing and quarantine. These best practices help to provide entertainment and distraction while complying with the imposed measures.
Public broadcasting corporation supports education efforts
The Austrian public broadcasting corporation ORF decided to broadcast news, a broad set of documentaries and several tutorials for a young target audience who can currently not attend school due to COVID-19.
Competitions to entertain residents while they stay at home
To make the time families spend at home worthwhile the Kahramanmaraş Greater Metropolitan Municipality has started several entertaining competitions for its residents.
Setting up a situation centre to develop new childcare offers for the summer of 2020
The city of Essen set up a “Situation Centre Summer Holidays” with the aim to develop childcare, leisure activities and education for Essen’s children and young people for the 2020 summer holidays.
Football matches attended by cardboard figures with fans’ pictures
Fans of a German football club are replaced in the stadiums by cardboard cutouts. This project supports local businesses and charities.
Collaboration between short film festivals
A cooperation between cancelled short film festival presents an online short film festival in support of those most affected by COVID-19.
A research centre goes fully digital
The Oxford Research Centre of Humanities provides a variety of exciting competitions, articles, flash-fiction contests, podcasts and like online.
Children paint pictures for senior citizens
To ease the loneliness during the lockdown, children painted pictures to be given to retirement home residents as Easter presents.
Ball sports app offers ideas for exercising at home
A ball sports app originally designed for teachers now added exercises for kids to practice at home.
Online Art Festival
Artists, publishers and agencies joined together to give everyone at home the option to attend concerts while staying at home. For a series of days, the online Festival “EU Fico em Casa” showcased art performances on Instagram.
Virtually enjoying arts
Three museums in Gobrovo, Bulgaria go digital during the lockdown so art lovers can enjoy their collection from their homes.
Drive-in cinemas
Drive-in cinemas are safe way to watch movies in times of physical distancing.
Digital workshops help children to stay in touch with each other
A project started by the Emilia Romagna region helps children to maintain relationships with each other and strengthens their imagination skills.