Through Denmark’s chairing of the Presidency of the European Union, the Danish Culture Minister Uffe Elbaek instigated Team Culture 2012: A platform for inspiration from the cultural world to the political world. It all really started with a question In autumn  2011 in the midst of a severe European economic crisis: “What is the role of culture and art in a time of crisis? What – if any – can be the contribution of art and culture in our search for finding new hope, energy, and a way out of the crisis?”.  This report has soem of the answers.