Deadline: 29-May-22
The EU-funded project EU4Culture has announced its 1st call for mobility grants to support Belarusian Artists and Cultural Professionals.
The call is open for internships, study visits, conferences, professional developments, and other activities that foster knowledge exchange and intercultural dialogue.
The purpose of this mobility scheme is to support individual artists and cultural professionals from Belarus to work and interact across borders. It is funded by the European Union (EU) and is part of the EU4Culture project.
EU4Culture aims to foster culture as an engine for growth and social development across the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) region. It will help to enhance the role of the cultural sector as a driver of economic development. Thanks to its regional approach, it also promotes intercultural dialogue and knowledge exchange between artists and cultural professionals from the EaP countries.
The project places culture, the creative industries and cultural sites at its core, which all carry a great potential for broad and sustainable economic and social development.
Objectives
This mobility scheme for Artists and Cultural Professionals (A&CP) specifically aims to:
- Enhance intercultural dialogue and knowledge exchange between A&CP.
- Support professional mobilities (i.e., international travel for professional purposes) of Artists and Cultural Professionals.
- Create links between artists, cultural practitioners and professionals to support international collaboration.
Themes
Cultural and creativity sectors or themes:
- Advertising and Marketing (PR & communication activities, Advertising)
- Architecture (Architectural activities)
- Creative gaming industry
- Creative or cultural education and/or research, Creative hubs
- Creative or traditional crafts
- Design, e.g. product, graphic and fashion design
- Film and video e.g. movie and video production, TV, radio, broadcasting
- Fine Arts e.g. photography, painting, new media art
- Gastronomy and traditional culinary industry
- IT, Software and computer service creative software development as well as culture and creative computer-based services
- Literature and Publishing (translation and interpretation activities)
- Museums, archives, galleries, and libraries
- Music, performing and visual arts (Sound recording & music publishing activities, cultural education, Performing arts, Artistic creation, Festivals)
Funding Information & Duration
Applicants can apply for four different grant types, depending on the duration of their mobility project:
- Short-term mobilities (7-10 calendar days, including travel days) – a maximum of EUR 1,500.
- Medium-term mobilities (up to 5 weeks, including travel days) – a maximum of EUR 3,500.
- Long-term mobilities (up to 12 weeks, including travel days) – a maximum of EUR 5,000.
- Virtual mobilities (no travel, but online participation in an event taking place in another country) – a maximum of 1,000€, covering the registration fee only.
Activities
Types of actions or activities:
- Establishing new partnerships or developing existing international partnership(s), networking and other relevant international collaboration activities.
- Developing and/or (co-)organising innovative and creative brainstorming markets or exchange platforms of new ideas / creative models with international partners.
- Cultural or creativity focused internships, showcases, workshops, master classes, study visits (Online/Offline).
- Participation in relevant conferences, festivals or other networking events (Online/Offline).
- International compositions or on-site demonstrations.
- Developing inclusive cooperation opportunities and initiatives by relying on digital technology and eLearning.
- Study visits demonstrating (e.g. European) participatory dialogue with public authorities responsible for culture and creativity development (on a regional or national level).
- Developing new or enhancing existing mechanisms for communication, dissemination and transferability of results of cultural and creativity projects on a regional, national and international level.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must comply with the following criteria:
- be at least 18 years old on the day of the application deadline.
- be citizen of Belarus or having a permanent residence permit in Belarus.
- be based in Belarus and or in other countries as identified in the EU4Culture eligible area.
- be an Artist or Cultural Professional.
For more information, visit https://euprojects.by/news/eu4culture-call-for-mobility-scheme-for-artists-and-cultural-professionals/