New Culture Moves Europe Call for Residency Hosts

Deadline: 15-Jun-23

Willing to host an artistic or cultural residence? Keep reading, this opportunity is for you! This call is directed at legal entities willing to host a residency project for artists and cultural professionals coming from other Creative Europe countries.

Culture Moves Europe provides mobility grants for artists and cultural professionals (A&CPs) legally residing in one of the 40 Creative Europe countries, and willing to develop a project in another Creative Europe country. The scheme consists of two action lines:

• Individual Mobility for individuals and groups of up to 5 persons.
• Residency for legal entities to hosts between 1 to 5 artists and cultural professionals.

Specific incentives are proposed to encourage green mobility and ensure inclusion of people of all background active in the cultural and creative field.

This call targets legal entities who regularly organise artistic and creative activities or/and have the capacity to implement an artistic and cultural residency project where artists and cultural professionals from other Creative Europe countries will be participants for 22 days minimum. The legal entities must have the capacity to host a residency project, in terms of facilities, services, staff, and mentoring opportunities.

Objectives

Within the sectors covered by the call, the applicants must choose up to two of the following objectives to be reached through the residency project:

• To explore: to conduct research, to investigate and work on a specific theme or a new concept.
• To create: to engage in a collective creative process seeking to produce a new piece of artistic/cultural work.
• To learn: to enhance the participants’ competences and skills through non-formal learning5 or collaboration with a specialist.
• To connect: to develop a professional network, to strengthen the participants’ professional development, to engage with new audiences.
• To transform: to contribute to societal change in line with the New European Bauhaus values and principles.
• Applicants who select this objective are expected to implement a residency project in line with the New European Bauhaus (NEB) values and principles.

Please note: the residency grant cannot be used purely to support travel for artists to present their existing work in a professional setting (vernissage, exhibition, concert, performance) at the hosts’ premises.

Eligible Sectors

• The residency project must cover at least one of the following sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literary translation, music, performing arts and visual arts. The participating A&CPs are developing their projects from the corresponding sector(s).
• A residency project can also be multi and transdisciplinary.

Eligibility Criteria

• Legal Entities
  • Applicant must be a legal entity, such as a non-profit organisation, NGO, public body, foundation, company, selfemployed person, etc.
  • Applicant must be active in at least one of the following sectors:
    • Architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literary translation, music, performing arts and visual arts.
  • Applicant must have the capacity (i.e. facilities, services, support from mentor(s), staff) to implement an artistic and cultural residency project in which they host between 1 & 5 A&CPs residing in other Creative Europe Countries.
  • Applicant can be either a newly founded or a well-established entity.
  • Culture Moves Europe aims to be accessible to hosts and A&CPs with less experience in international cooperation, and/or who are located in more rural and remote areas, including the Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions (OCT and OR).
• Countries
  • The applicant must be legally registered and based in one of the 40 Creative Europe countries:
    • Albania, Austria, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Tunisia and Ukraine.
  • Including their Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and (ORs) Outermost Regions of the European Union: Overseas Countries and Territories:
    • Greenland (Denmark), French Polynesia (France), New Caledonia (France), Saint Barthelemy (France), St. Pierre and Miquelon (France), Wallis and Futuna Islands (France), Aruba (The Netherlands), Bonaire (The Netherlands), Curaçao (The Netherlands), Saba (The Netherlands), Sint Maarten (The Netherlands) and Sint Eustatius (The Netherlands).
  • Outermost regions:
    • French Guiana (France), Guadeloupe (France), Martinique (France), Mayotte (France), Reunion Island (France), Saint Martin (France), Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal) and Canary Islands (Spain).

For more information, visit Culture Moves Europe.