Call for Applications: Gil Mendo Mobility Grant

Aims 

• This grant aims to support artists’ and other cultural professionals’ mobility focusing on dance as the main artistic discipline and/or departing point, yet also including any potential transdisciplinary crossover approaches.

Goal 

• The goal of GMMG is to enhance knowledge and capacities through peer exchange, learning, co-creation, co-production and networking, and to increase work opportunities while directly or indirectly contributing to cultural development in the Mediterranean. Initiatives shall highlight the contribution and potential impact of the mobility project in the local and/or regional artistic and cultural scene, most especially on the dance field.

Funding Information 

• Candidates are invited to apply for a lump sum ranging approx. from 500€ to 1000€, to cover fully or partially the costs related to their mobility project, such as travel tickets, visas, accommodation, etc.

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates are cultural individual professionals such as artists, managers, producers, researchers, journalists, programmers, curators, etc. (not organisations), irrespective of age, proposing individual mobility projects (not collective nor group mobility)
• Proposals shall address dance as main focus and/or departing point, including any transdisciplinary crossover approach
• The purpose of the mobility shall be justified in the frame of the applicant’s professional project/career development, such as, among others:
  • preparation of a professional project;
  • establishment of a partnership, co-creation and/or co-production;
  • participation in an artistic research project or in a residency;
  • participation in a network meeting;
  • participation in artistic and professional training/education (internships, masterclasses, exchanges, study trips);
  • attendance of debates, conferences, seminars, festivals
• Under the current call, eligible beneficiaries are arts and cultural professionals and cultural operators based in Portugal (including islands) and/or non-EU countries around the Mediterranean basin, such as the Western Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East
• Selection criteria of the mobility project:
  • Clarity and relevance;
  • Artistic and cultural quality;
  • Capacity to deliver / Feasibility of the mobility project implementation;
  • Impact and contribution to the local and/or regional artistic and cultural scene. Special attention will be given to expected effects of the mobility on the dance field in the region;
  • Priority will be given to independent artists and cultural professionals.

For more information, visit Roberto Cimetta Fund.