Mobility Grant for Individual Artists and Cultural Professionals

It is funded by the European Union (EU), as part of the EU4Culture project. The mobility call targets artists and cultural professionals from rural areas and non-capital cities from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Republic of Moldova.

Objectives

For this purpose, a mobility grant scheme for Artists and Cultural Professionals (A&CP) has been developed, which specifically aims to:

• Enhance intercultural dialogue and knowledge exchange between A&CP in the EaP countries;
• Support professional mobilities (i.e., international travel for professional purposes) of Artists and Cultural Professionals;
• Create links between artists, cultural practitioners and professionals to support international collaboration.

Cultural and Creativity Sectors or Themes

• In the framework of this Call for Proposals, all cultural and creative sectors whose activities are based on cultural values, or other individual or collective artistic or creative expressions, are eligible.
• An indicative and non-exhaustive list of cultural and creative sectors is as follows:
  • Advertising and Marketing (PR & communication activities, Advertising)
  • Architecture (Architectural activities)
  • Creative gaming industry
  • Creative or cultural education and/or research, Creative hubs
  • Creative or traditional crafts
  • Design, e.g. product, graphic and fashion design
  • Film and video e.g. movie and video production, TV, radio, broadcasting
  • Fine Arts e.g. photography, painting, new media art
  • Gastronomy and traditional culinary industry
  • IT, Software and computer service creative software development as well as culture and creative computer-based services
  • Literature and Publishing (translation and interpretation activities)
  • Museums, archives, galleries, and libraries
  • Music, performing and visual arts (Sound recording & music publishing activities, cultural education, Performing arts, Artistic creation, Festivals)

Duration

• Applicants can apply for four different grant types, depending on the duration of their mobility project:
  • Short-term mobilities (5-10 calendar days, including travel days) – a maximum of EUR 1,500;
  • Medium-term mobilities (11-35 calendar days, including travel days) – a maximum of EUR 3,500;
  • Long-term mobilities (36-84 calendar days, including travel days) – a maximum of EUR 5,000.
  • Virtual mobilities (no travel, but online participation in an event taking place in another country) – a maximum of 1,000€, covering the registration fee only.
• For short-term and medium-term mobilities, applicants may only travel to one destination.
• For long-term mobilities, applicants can choose to travel to several destinations: a maximum of three destinations are allowed, either all in the same country or in three different countries.

Types of Actions or Activities

Below is an indicative and non-exhaustive list of activities that can be implemented in the framework of the EU4Culture mobility grant scheme:

• Establishing new partnerships or developing existing international partnership(s), networking and other relevant international collaboration activities;
• Developing and/or (co-)organising innovative and creative brainstorming markets or exchange platforms of new ideas/creative models with international partners;
• Cultural or creativity focused internships, showcases, workshops, master classes, study visits (Online/Offline);
• Participation in relevant conferences, festivals or other networking events (Online/Offline);
• Developing inclusive cooperation opportunities and initiatives by relying on digital technology and eLearning;
• Study visits demonstrating (e.g. European) participatory dialogue with public authorities responsible for culture and creativity development (on a regional or national level);
• Developing new or enhancing existing mechanisms for communication, dissemination and transferability of results of cultural and creativity projects on a regional, national and international level.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only individual mobilities are eligible. Applications to support the mobility of a group of individuals, or individuals travelling together, will not be supported. Furthermore, only international mobility projects are eligible: mobilities within the applicants’ country of residence will not be supported.
• Applicants must comply with the following criteria:
  • be at least 18 years old on the day of the application deadline and
  • currently be a legal permanent resident, executing professional activities in one of the regional cities of the following Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova and
  • be an Artist or Cultural Professional.
• EU4Culture project reserves the right to request from the applicant verification documents, proving applicant’s permanent residency and location of execution of professional activities at a later stage.
• The beneficiary of EU4Culture mobility grant scheme is responsible for paying all necessary taxes directly associated with the mobility grant (if any).

For more information, visit Goethe Institut.