Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Action Program

Through this action, Culture Moves Europe aims to support artists and cultural professionals in developing their careers internationally, learning and cooperating beyond borders. Applicants are free to choose who they want to work with, as well as the outline and goals of their project.

Funding Information

• Individuals can travel between 7 and 60 days, groups between 7 and 21 days.
• Grantees benefit from support to travel and subsistence costs as well as individual top-ups based on their project and personal situation.
• Projects related to formal education or travel to merely present previously created work at concerts, exhibitions etc. are not supported.

Project Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible sectors: Applicants must implement a project in one of the eligible sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts and visual arts.
• Project Objectives
  • Two of the following project objectives must be selected by the applicant:
    • To explore: to conduct creative and artistic research, to investigate, inspire and work on a specific theme or a new concept.
    • To create: to engage in a 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 strenghten the participants’ professional development, to engage with new audiences.
• Project duration
  • The project duration corresponds to the number of days spent in the destination country to implement the project. The travel time to the country of destination is not counted.
  • The duration requested must be justified and last:
    • between 7 and 60 days for individual projects;
    • between 7 and 21 days for group projects.
  • The implementation of the project in the destination country must be uninterrupted, which means that it is not accepted to segment the implementation of the project into different periods, and/or go to other countries during the implementation of the project in the destination country.
• Language: Applications must be submitted in English. While the level of English is not evaluated or taken into consideration, the applications should be clearly written to allow the external experts to understand the mobility project.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible artists and cultural professionals:
  • Individuals or groups of individuals (from 2 to 5 people) who are natural persons;
  • Aged 18+;
  • From all educational backgrounds and levels of experience;
  • Active in the following cultural and creative sectors of the Creative Europe programme: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts and visual arts.
• Eligible countries of legal residence
  • Applicant must be a legal resident 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 the Overseas Countries and Territories and 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), Sint Eustatius (The Netherlands).
    • Outermost Regions: French Guiana (France), Guadeloupe (France), Martinique (France), Mayotte (France), Reunion Island (France), SaintMartin (France), Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain).

Ineligibility Criteria

• Applicants exclusively active in the audio-visual sector.
• Applicants who already received a Culture Moves Europe individual mobility grant (as individual, group leader or group member), as part of this current call or previous one (2022- 2023).
• Applicants who already applied (and were either successful or unsuccessful) to a monthly deadline of the current call, running from 2 October 2023 to 31 May 2024.
• Current evaluators of the Culture Moves Europe Pool of Experts for Individual Mobility.
• Staff members of the Goethe-Institut e.V.
• Staff members of the Institutions and Agencies of the European Union.

For more information, visit Goethe Institut.