The goal of the interdisciplinary project Experiment and Excellence (1May 2011 - 31 January 2013) is to emphasise and promote the role of innovation in the development and advancement of a diversity of European cultural areas, positioning the art space as a territory without defined political borders and artists - as unique trespassers interested in interaction and its products.The project aims to build a strong partnership between European countries: members of European Union as France, Lithuania, Finland, Latvia, and Croatia; Iceland as a representative EEA, and neighboring Russia and Georgia.The project in its essence is an attempt to emphasise that only through experiments facts of art are born and become textbook examples of excellence in the course of history. The programme of activities, culminating with the Cesis 2012 Art Festival Experiment and Excellence, reflects the multinational, creative and explorative nature of the project. The project will ensure the mobility of art works and cultural actors by series of artistic events in participating countries thus encouraging intercultural debates to discover the roots of innovation within the context of the Europe of today while never forgetting how important it is to keep in mind the lessons of the past. Therefore the project concept connects to a universal problem that transcends specific geographical or historical contexts.Every activity and corresponding information will be documented and compiled in a unique multimedial publication Europe: Experiment and Excellence. Past, Present and Future. (published in January 2013) and will target wide audiences in European countries and also other English and Russian speaking regions thus providing a widest possible audience.The international team of the project coordinators consists of leading visual arts and music experts of each participating country thus ensuring the level of artistic outcomes and professional management of the project.