Open Call: Residency Abroad for Designers and Architects (Netherlands)

With this open call, the Fund wants to stimulate the artistic and professional development of established designers and makers. In this regard, residencies serve as a retreat for research and experiment. The emphasis is on exchange and reciprocity; the selected theme or subject also has to be of relevance to the place where the sor to the organization that makes this residency possible. It is also important for the proposal to relate to the local context and to link up with a shared question, subject or relevant issue.

Funding Information

• The contribution of a minimum of € 5,000 and a maximum of € 15,000 is intended only for participation, travel, rental, material and presentation costs.

Eligible Projects

• The Open Call Residency Abroad focuses on temporary work periods to develop and/or research an idea and/or design outside one’s own context. Further applicable conditions:
  • The residency takes place in a country outside the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
  • The residency lasts at least two months and at most six;
  • The residency starts within eight months after the date of the decision;
  • There is a well-motivated plan in which the residency’s relevance and objective are set out;
  • The facilitating organization/place of the residency offers at least one or more of the following: a work place, accommodation, access to facilities and/or materials and guidance.
• In addition to the conditions stated above, the board reviews applications for travel safety and sustainability.

Ineligible Projects

• In addition to the provisions of Article 5 of the Open Call Grant Scheme, support cannot be applied for within this procedure:
  • If there is a working relationship between the parties involved;
  • If a work period at the residency in question is continued;
  • For residencies in the context of a course of study or training.

Eligibility Criteria

• This open call is open to professional designers, architects, makers and observers who have had their own practice in the creative industry for at least four years.
• The applicant is established in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and has to be registered in the Commercial Register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce or in one of the Chambers of Commerce that fall within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

For more information, visit Creative Industries Fund NL.