Culture Moves Europe Residency Action Project

The action encourages collaboration between hosts, artists and cultural professionals from different disciplines and backgrounds. Through this action, Culture Moves Europe aims to further develop a close-knit artistic and cultural ecosystem across the European Union and beyond.

Culture Moves Europe supports cultural mobility in all 40 Creative Europe countries. It is funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by Goethe-Institut. The Residency Action targets legal entities active in the cultural sector.

What they fund?

• The residency grant is compiled of two parts:
  • the hosting allowance, supporting the host with expenses related to the implementation of the residency project, e.g. accommodation or equipment.
  • daily allowances, travel allowances and top-ups, which are allocated to each participant based on individual travel plans and needs
• In the application, one of the following options must be selected for the duration:
  • Short-term residency project: from 22 to 60 days
  • Medium-term residency project: from 61 to 120 days
  • Long-term residency project: from 121 to 300 days

Funding Criteria

• Does the host provide appropriate premisses and services to participants, e. g. housing, equipment, work environment?
• Is the selection process of the participating artists and cultural professionals well explained and justified?
• Does the host provide mentorship and a collaborative environment to the participants?
• Is the residency project relevant to the applicants’ work and activities, as well as to Culture Moves Europe’s objectives?
• Does the residency project have long-term impact and benefits?
• Does the project take sustainability and the environment into consideration?

Residency Project Eligibility

• Eligible sectors
  • The residency project must cover at least one of the following sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashionm design, literature5, music, performing arts and visual arts.
  • A residency project can also be interdisciplinary.
• Eligible objectives
  • The residency project must cover up to two of the following objectives:
    • to explore: to conduct research, to investigate and work on a specific theme or a new concept;
    • to create: to engage in a collective creative process seeking to produce a new piece of artistic/cultural work;
    • to learn: to enhance the participants’ competences and skills through non-formal learning or collaboration with a specialist;
    • to connect: to develop a professional network, to strengthen the participants’ professional development, to engage with new audiences;
    • to transform: to contribute to societal change in line with the New European Bauhaus values and principles
• Services and activities
  • Applicants must provide the participating A&CPs with:
    • working space with the necessary equipment and material;
    • accommodation (within or outside the host premises);
    • mentoring. The mentor provides feedback and guidance during the implementation and development of the residency project. The mentor is associated to the host (as staff member or collaborator) and must have expertise connected to the residency project;
    • the mobility grant (daily and travel allowance) and potential topups;
    • relevant information regarding issues of security and safety in the destination country, and must encourage participants to notify and register with their Ministry of Foreign Affairs of their own country and obtain travel insurance before starting the residency project. The Goethe-Institut e.V. does not provide any additional information.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be a legal entity, such as a non-profit organisation, NGO, public body, foundation, company, self-employed person, etc.
• Applicants must be active in at least one of the following sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.
• Applicants must have the capacity (i.e., facilities, services, network, staff) to implement an artistic and cultural residency project in which they host between 1 and 5 A&CPs residing in other Creative Europe countries.
• Applicants can be either a newly founded or a well-established entity.
• The applicant must be legally registered and based2 in one of the 40 Creative Europe countries, Including the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and (ORs) Outermost Regions of the European Union.

For more information, visit Goethe Institut.