Open Call: Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Action

Deadline: 30 November 2024

The Culture Moves Europe provides mobility grants for artists and cultural professionals in all 40 Creative Europe countries.

It covers the sectors of architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts. The scheme consists of two action lines:

Individual Mobility Action: for individuals and groups of up to 5 artists and cultural professionals.
Residency Action: for legal entities to host between 1 and 5 artists and cultural professionals.

Culture Moves Europe encourages sustainable practices and diversity and ensures gender, geographical and sectoral balance. Emerging artists and cultural professionals, as well as applicants with a disability, receive special attention.

Goal

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.
The mobility grant is calculated for each artist and cultural professional and contributes to:
- Travel costs from the place of residence to the destination (and back to place of residence);
- Daily expenses during the project implementation in the country of destination.
In addition, the scheme can also provide extra top-up funding and support for artists and cultural professionals who:
- have additional costs to carry out the project due to a disability;
- will travel to or from Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) or Outermost Regions (ORs);
- have custody of children below the age of 10 at the time of the mobility project.
- will use sustainable means of transport.

What does the grant offer?

The grant is composed of a travel allowance, a daily allowance and individual top-ups and support. The grant calculations are made specifically for each grantee, based on their project and personal situation.

What projects are supported?

Artists and cultural professionals can apply with a proposal to carry out a project with a partner of their choice in a Creative Europe country which is not their country of residence.
The project should pursue two of the following goals:
- 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 competences and skills through non-formal learning or collaboration with a specialist
- to connect: to develop a professional network, to strengthen the professional development, to engage with new audiences
The partner can be, for example, a fellow artist, an organisation or a venue in the country of destination. Applicants must provide proof of collaboration in the application process.
It is possible to apply either as an individual or as a group of up to five people.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible artists and cultural professionals
- 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.
Eligible countries of legal residence
- 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.
- This includes the Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions of the European Union:
  - Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT): Greenland (Denmark), French Polynesia (France), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (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 (OR): French Guiana (France), Guadeloupe (France), Martinique (France), Mayotte (France), Reunion Island (France), SaintMartin (France), Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain).
Former applicants to Culture Moves Europe
- Applicants (individuals or group leaders/members) can only receive one mobility grant under the Individual Mobility Action, between October 2022 and April 2025.
- 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.