Deadline: 30 November 2024
Are you an artist or do you work in the field of culture and would like funding support to carry out a project in another country? Culture Moves Europe offers mobility grants to individual artists and cultural professionals willing to implement a project abroad.
Goals
- The Individual Mobility Action of Culture Moves Europe provides financial support to artists and cultural professionals (A&CPs) who wish to carry out a mobility project in another Creative Europe country, in collaboration with an international partner (either an organisation or an individual).
- Through this action, Culture Moves Europe aims to support artists and cultural professionals to develop 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.
Objectives
- Each project must pursue two of the following objectives:
- To explore: to conduct creative and artistic research, to investigate, draw inspiration 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 competences and skills through non formal learning9 or collaboration with a specialist.
- To connect: to develop a professional network, to strengthen professional development, to engage with new audiences.
Eligible Projects
- 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.
Ineligible Projects
- A Culture Moves Europe mobility grant cannot be awarded:
- retrospectively for actions and projects that start before the relevant earliest start date, or are already completed;
- for projects exclusively covering the audiovisual sector, connected to the film industry and with the aim of being prominently displayed in public on different media, such as TV, cinema, paid streaming or gaming platforms.
- for literature projects focusing on non-fiction works. This includes: autobiographies, biographies, or essays without fictional elements; tourist guides; leisure and personal development-related works; and scientific and academic works (including the humanities, social and other sciences);
- for any project considered as part of formal learning and/or directly contributing to an academic degree (including postgraduate qualification);
- to purely fund travel for applicants to present their previously created work in a professional setting (exhibition, concert, performance, vernissage);
- to applicants who are already receiving EU financial support contributing to travel, or daily expenses (such as accommodation and meals) for the same project and same dates.
Eligible Countries
- Each 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, Tunisia and Ukraine.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be considered eligible, applicants for the Individual Mobility Action of Culture Moves Europe must be:
- Individuals or groups of individuals (from 2 to 5 people);
- Aged 18+;
- From all educational backgrounds and levels of experience;
- Active in the following sectors of the Creative Europe programme: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.
- Applicants can (re)apply if:
- they have applied to a previous Call for Individual Mobility and were not selected (first call 2022-2023 and second call 2023-2024).
- Have already received a grant through the Culture Moves Europe Residency Action, either as Residency Host or Participating
- artists and cultural professionals.
- Have not applied yet applied to the Third Call for Individual Mobility running from 1 August 2024 and 30 November 2024.
- Have previously received an i-Portunus mobility grant.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applications which do not fulfil the previous points, including:
- applicants who are exclusively active in the audio-visual sector;
- current evaluators of the Culture Moves Europe Pool of Experts for Individual Mobility;
- staff members of the Goethe-Institut;
- staff members of the institutions and agencies of the European Union.
For more information, visit Creative Europe Desk Ireland.
