🇪🇪 Estonia
Van Gogh Exhibition: The Immersive Experience
A 360° immersive exhibition combining physical gallery space with digital projection and a virtual reality segment, offering visitors an experiential journey through Van Gogh's life and work.
Where: Tallinn, Estonia When: Ongoing, daily, until 10 January 2027
Details: vangoghtallinn.ee
"Kadunud Muinasjutud" — Exhibition by Young Ukrainian Artists
The exhibition features 14 monumental original works created by children and young people aged 5–17 from the Aza Nizi Maza art studio in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was born from the idea of creating a world composed of forgotten legends, untold stories, and new mythologies inspired by the Baroque collections of European museums.
Where: Tallinn, Estonia When: 13 August – 4 October 2026
Details: Facebook event
Mental Health Month, coordinated by VATEK
A month of free workshops, talks, and community activities marking World Mental Health Day, coordinated across Estonian organisations working in mental health and wellbeing.
Where: Tallinn, Estonia When: October 2026 (main day: 10 October)
Details: vaimsetervisekuu.ee
PÖFF — Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Estonia's largest international film festival, with a programme regularly featuring films addressing art, identity, and mental health themes alongside its main competition and industry events.
Where: Tallinn, Estonia When: 6–22 November 2026
Details: poff.ee
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Human Development Summit — "Third in Contact: How AI is Changing the Mental Health Sector"
An event bringing together mental health professionals, researchers, business leaders, and technology experts to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping mental health practice — including international perspectives on AI in mental health and practical case studies of real-world clinical and therapeutic applications.
Where: Kyiv, Ukraine + online When: 17 September 2026
Details: epsgroup.pro
International Scientific & Practical Seminar — "Creative Multidimensionality of the Art Therapy Space: The Palette of the Art Therapist's Personality"
The seminar explores resources and professional opportunities in the life-enhancing field of art therapy, focusing on the practical use of art therapy methods and techniques by psychologists, special education teachers, social educators, and social workers.
Where: Online When: 24 September 2026, 10:00–18:00 (Kyiv time)
Details: surl.li/dcvkcz
LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival
Ukraine's largest showcase of short independent animation and a major platform for contemporary animation and media art, connecting visual storytelling, digital creativity, media art, and emotional reflection. May be of particular interest for partners working with VR art videos and immersive narratives.
Where: Kyiv, Ukraine When: 29 September – 4 October 2026
Details: linoleumfest.com
Third Conference on Integrative Psychotherapy in Ukraine
A scientific and practical conference focused on professional exchange in integrative psychotherapy, bringing together mental-health practitioners, trainers, and researchers to discuss new approaches, professional tools, and practice-based learning in psychological support.
Where: Kyiv, Ukraine + online When: 16–18 October 2026
Details: itaipinstitute.com.ua
XXI All-Ukrainian Gestalt Conference of NAGTU
A professional event for the Gestalt therapy community in Ukraine. The programme includes lectures, workshops, professional exchange, and group processes, focusing on psychotherapy training, reflective practice, supervision culture, and professional development — relevant to safe facilitation in arts-and-health contexts.
Where: Online When: 30 October – 1 November 2026
Details: gestalt.org.ua
1st International "Superhumans War Trauma Conference"
A professional event for specialists working with patients affected by war trauma — amputations, complex reconstructive interventions, infectious complications, chronic pain, and long-term rehabilitation. The focus spans the complete patient journey: evacuation, stabilization, surgical treatment, prosthetics, rehabilitation, psychological support, and return to autonomy, work, family, and community life.
Where: Lviv, Ukraine When: 13–14 November 2026
Details: superhumans.com
V Congress with International Participation — "Psychosomatic Medicine of the 21st Century: Realities and Prospects"
Dedicated to developing the resilience of Ukraine's mental health system and implementing the latest global standards of diagnosis and treatment (including the 2025–2026 guidelines) into the practice of psychosomatic care for military and civilian personnel.
Where: Kyiv, Ukraine + online When: 19–21 November 2026
Details: mediamed.com.ua
🇦🇹 Austria
FLUVIALE Media-Art-Lab — DATA-LINE Test-Laboratory
A modularly structured, mobile art festival travelling along an axis through Europe — a contemporary festival-like project aggregation that translates observations, analysis, and active countermeasures into modified forms of contemporary art production.
Where: Vienna, Austria When: 31 August – 5 September 2026
Details: fluviale.eu
Ars Electronica
One of the world's most important platforms for media art, technology, and society. From exhibitions, workshops, and symposia to performances, the programme spans a wide range of topics that spark curiosity about the world of tomorrow and how we want to shape it.
Where: Linz, Austria When: 9–13 September 2026
Details: ars.electronica.art
Forward Festival
The ultimate gathering spot for creative minds and industry professionals. Across disciplines and industries, the festival brings together designers, marketers, artists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and bold thinkers from around the world.
Where: Vienna, Austria When: 1–2 October 2026
Details: forward-festival.com
International Conference on Mental Health, Psychology and Social Care
Brings together industry professionals, experts, academicians, and scholars to discuss their expertise for better collaboration in the field of mental health and social care.
Where: Vienna, Austria + online When: 9–10 October 2026
Details: issersociety.com
International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visual Technologies (ICVRV-26)
A premier global platform for sharing the latest advancements in virtual reality and visual technologies, addressing challenges across engineering, medicine, social science, applied science, and management.
Where: Vienna, Austria + online When: 30–31 October 2026
Details: asar.net.in
Vienna Art Week 2026
Takes as its point of departure an experience that is ubiquitous yet rarely articulated with precision: Angst — understood not simply as fear or anxiety, but as a more fundamental condition, less a symptom of crisis-ridden times than their very structure.
Where: Vienna, Austria When: 6–13 November 2026
Details: viennaartweek.at
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Biennale Matter of Art
The fourth edition presents art as a necessity that our society cannot do without, featuring more than thirty artists and collectives from Czechia, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, Palestine, Slovakia, and other countries.
Where: Brno, Czech Republic When: 12 June – 14 September 2026
Details: ngprague.cz
International Forum on Mental Health and Policy Development
Aims to connect researchers and academicians across science and technology to discuss ideas that can revolutionize the field. Brings together associations from developed and developing countries to address challenges, provide sustainable solutions, and instill scientific engagement among the younger generation.
Where: Prague, Czech Republic When: 7–8 September 2026
Details: sciencecite.com
Psychologické dny 2026
Psychologists gather to share insights from research and practice, discuss key topics in the field, and establish new professional connections. Combines thematic symposia, poster presentations, a student section, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops.
Where: Olomouc, Czech Republic When: 9–11 September 2026
Details: psychologickedny.info
PROTOTYP Festival
Brings the city to life with digital art, featuring free installations scattered around the streets of Brno that can be explored at your own pace, alongside workshops and interactive art for children and the general public.
Where: Brno, Czech Republic When: 1–3 October 2026
Details: prototypbrno.cz
Signal Festival
The largest showcase of digital and creative culture in the Czech Republic.
Where: Prague, Czech Republic When: 15–18 October 2026
Details: signalfestival.com
Zip-Scene Conference
Brings together emerging scholars, professionals, and creators on a joint platform to understand and develop VR-based productions. Organized in cooperation with the ART*VR festival, presenting the best in artistic VR creation and immersing audiences in unique, immersive virtual worlds.
Where: Prague, Czech Republic When: 12–14 November 2026
Details: conf.zip-scene.com
🇸🇪 Sweden
Nordic Tech Week
The largest tech week in the Nordics, bringing together founders, investors, operators, enterprise leaders, and policymakers across 300+ events.
Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 7–11 September 2026
Details: nordictechweek.org
KTH Innovation Collide
Stockholm's largest startup networking event, joining Nordic Tech Week in Kungsträdgården to showcase 40 startups from KTH and leading European startup hubs.
Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 10 September 2026, 17:15–19:00
Details: kth.se
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm
The 14th edition showcases thousands of contemporary artworks from a family of hand-selected local, national, and international galleries. Includes an exclusive Vernissage preview, Family Mornings on weekends, and a full programme of events, special exhibitions, and installations.
Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 30 September – 4 October 2026
Details: affordableartfair.com
Nobel Calling 2026 at Digital Futures — Discover How AI and Digital Technologies Are Shaping the Society of the Future
Visitors will encounter research shaping the society of tomorrow, as researchers from many fields explore how digital technologies and AI can help address society's greatest challenges — in health, education, sustainability, mobility, cybersecurity, and smart cities.
Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 7 October 2026, 09:00–14:00 CEST
Details: digitalfutures.kth.se
Data & AI Stockholm Summit
A practitioner-first summit bringing together data professionals, AI builders, researchers, engineers, founders, and leaders from across the Nordic ecosystem.
Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 14 October 2026
Details: dataaistockholm.com