Mobility Grants for Artists and Cultural Professionals

Deadline: 16 February 2024

‘EU4Culture’, a project funded by the European Union, launches a mobility grant for individual artists and cultural professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and the Republic of Moldova.

The mobility grant scheme supports activities such as internships, study visits, conferences (online/offline), professional development and other activities that are carried out in another country and foster knowledge exchange and intercultural dialogue.

Objectives of the Mobility Grant Scheme

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)

Funding Information

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.
Within this call for proposals the applicant can start his/her mobility project no earlier than April 01, 2024 and must complete the mobility project until September 30, 2024.

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.
Please note: 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.

Eligibility Criteria

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 in one of the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova and
- be an Artist or Cultural Professional.
- Important information for the applicants from Belarus: Belarus citizens residing in countries defined below are eligible to apply for the Call upon providing corresponding proofs of legal residency.
  - Austria
  - Belgium
  - Bulgaria
  - Croatia
  - Czech Republic
  - Cyprus
  - Denmark
  - Estonia
  - Finland
  - France
  - Germany
  - Greece
  - Hungary
  - Ireland
  - Italy
  - Latvia
  - Lithuania
  - Luxembourg
  - Malta
  - Netherlands
  - Poland
  - Portugal
  - Romania
  - Slovenia
  - Slovakia
  - Spain
  - Sweden
  - Iceland
  - Liechtenstein
  - Norway
  - Switzerland
  - United Kingdom
  - Armenia
  - Azerbaijan
  - Belarus
  - Georgia
  - Republic of
  - Moldova
  - Ukraine
  - Albania
  - Bosnia and Herzegovina
  - Kosovo
  - Montenegro
  - Republic of North
  - Macedonia
  - Serbia
  - Turkey