Submit Applications for Sustainable Residency Programme

The second round of residencies program will help develop artistic perspectives on bicycle cultures in four European cities between May and June 2025.

The CYCLE UP! project and the residency programme are jointly organised by the Goethe-Institut (Germany), Czech Centres (Czechia), BoMiasto (Poland), PUNKT (Slovakia) and Tartu 2024 with the City of Tartu (Estonia).

The programme is based on the key artistic values of learning, sharing, inclusion, connection, impact, and change, as outlined in the CYCLE UP! artistic vision. Most importantly, sustainability is central to every aspect of the residency — production, exhibition, mobility, project management, and the networks they aim to build:

• Residencies will be held in Estonia (Tartu), Poland (Katowice), and Czechia (Broumov and České Budějovice)
• Residencies in Estonia and Poland last 30 days each
• Residencies in Czechia last 45 days each
• Each residency is intended for one individual artist to develop and implement their artistic project.

Aim

• The programme aims to minimize the environmental impacts of accommodation, travel, artistic production and exhibition, event and project management:
  • Sustainable travel: The CYCLE UP! project encourages applicants to choose sustainable ways of travelling and will support  them in the logistical planning to achieve this.
  • Sustainability of materials: They favour artists who plan to reuse, share or rent equipment for artistic production.
  • Sustainability of networks: Artists will be connected with communities and decision makers prior to the start of the residency, and they envision facilitating relationships that last beyond the initial residency.

Benefits

• Accommodation
• Travel costs (up to 400 EUR for a one round trip based on real costs)
• Financial contribution of 1500,- EUR/30 days and 2250,- EUR/45 days (covering living costs and Intellectual Property Rights)
• Studio space
• Materials (up to a given limit)
• Community engagement and sustainability support – the CYCLE UP! team will provide assistance in order to reach an audience outside of the art scene. This is to try and affect real change in the urban mobility sector, and to achieve the goals of the residency in a sustainable manner.

Expected Outcomes

• The project proposals should address the cycling challenges of each city and be in line with the focus of the residency space, exploring and promoting potential for improvement in local bicycle culture and sustainable communities.
• The design and delivery of artistic outcomes, interventions, programmes or events must be guided by local contexts, which is described in more detail for each residency separately.
• If you are chosen for the residency programme, your project idea will be further discussed and developed in cooperation with residency partners, the curatorial board, local community partners and local decision makers.
• The final artwork has to be presented to the local public in two events.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are an individual artists, not a group or collective
• You are at least 18 years old at the submission of application
• You are a legal resident of a Creative Europe country
• You will implement a project in another Creative Europe country than your country of residence
• You are applying only for one CYCLE UP! residency (you are submitting only one application in total)
• You are fluent in English (level B2)
• You have demonstrable previous artistic experience
• You can stay at your destination for 30 consecutive days without interruption.

Application Requirements

• Once you have chosen the location of the residency you would like to attend, fill in the application form in English. You will also need to upload the following on to the form:
  • CV
  • Portfolio

For more information, visit CYCLE UP!.