Culture Moves Europe Call for Residency Hosts

• The Culture Moves Europe residency action provides financial support to organisations and artists registered as legal entities, in one of the 40 Creative Europe countries.
• The purpose of the grant is to welcome international artists and cultural professionals at your premises to implement a residency project. The participating artists and cultural professionals must be legal residents in a Creative Europe country that is different from the host’s country.
• With this grant, Creative Europe supports your efforts to give an international profile to your activities either if you are an established organisation or one that has been recently founded.
• Specifically, the residency action targets legal entities (e.g. non-for-profit, private, public bodies, foundations, etc.) that are active in these sectors:
  • architecture
  • cultural heritage
  • design and fashion design
  • literary translation
  • music
  • performing arts
  • visual arts

To be able to apply, you must:

• be a representative of an organisation or a person registered as a legal entity
• organise activities connected to at least one of the listed sectors above
• regularly organise artistic and cultural activities or/and have the capacity (i.e facility, services, staff and mentoring) to implement an artistic and cultural residency project
• invite at least 1 and a maximum of 5 artists or cultural professionals, to take part in the residency project, who legally reside in at least one other Creative Europe country

• You can apply for funding for a residency project with a proposal that includes its objectives, expected impact and duration. You will act as a mentor to artists and cultural professionals: you should provide the environment, support and equipment adapted to their field of expertise, so that they can focus on their individual or collective projects.
• The residency project should pursue one or 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 through non-formal learning or collaboration with a specialist.
  • To connect
  • To develop a network, to strengthen the participants’ professional development.
  • To transform
  • To enable societal change in line with the New European Bauhaus values and principles.
• You can welcome between 1 and 5 international artists and cultural professionals who must all participate in the residency project on the same dates and for the same duration. The residency can last between 22 and 300 days.
• When applying, you must choose one of the following durations:
  • short-term residency project: between 22 and 60 days
  • medium-term residency project: between 61 and 120 days
  • long-term residency project: between 121 and 300 days

The residency grant contributes to the costs connected to hosting international artists and cultural professionals and their mobility.

• Hosting costs: This financial support contributes to the expenses of your organisation for implementing the residency project. It is a fixed amount of €35 per day, per participating artist or cultural professional to cover their accommodation, mentoring fees, equipment, etc.
• Mobility grant: The mobility grant includes travel allowance and daily allowance for the participating artists and cultural professionals. It is part of the residency grant which you will receive from Culture Moves Europe after selection and signature of the grant agreement.
• However, these amounts and the optional top-ups should be allocated and transferred to each participant by your organisation. The amount per participants is calculated depending on their individual travel plan and needs.
• Travel allowance: The travel allowance depends on the participants’ travel distance and means of transportation. The distance between their place of residence and the location of the residency is calculated automatically in the online application process. Check the distance calculator for reference information.
• Travel distance less than 600 km: standard amount of €350.
• Travelling by airplane is not permitted. It is only possible in justified exceptions:
  • for persons with disabilities
  • if participants travel from or to an island with no ferry connections
  • due to a force majeure or grave personal circumstances
• Travel distance 601 – 5 000 km: standard amount of €350: Participants can choose whether to travel by airplane or another means of transportation.
• Travel distance 5 001 km and more: standard amount of €700: Participants can choose whether to travel by airplane or another means of transportation.
• Daily allowance: The daily allowance is a fixed amount of €25 per day, per participant artist or cultural professional. It can be used, for example, for food expenses, local transport etc.
• Top-ups: The top-ups are based on each artist or cultural professionals’ individual situation and needs. They are provided in addition to the mobility grant, and you should give the amount to the participant. The amounts are fixed and can be added cumulatively. Proof for each top-up is requested.
• Green top-up: €350: If participants don't travel by airplane (round-trip). Only applicable for distances above 600 km/per one way trip. (If participants travel by airplane, Culture Moves Europe will pay a contribution to the CO2 compensation fund Atmosfair on their behalf).
• Overseas Countries and Territories or Outermost Regions top-ups: €150. For travelling to or from Overseas Countries and Territories or Outermost Regions. Both way of the travel.
• Visa top-up: €80: For expenses related to visa processes.
• Disability support: up to €75 per day, per participant. The scheme offers disability support to artists and cultural professionals whose disabilities affect their ability to carry out the mobility project. Budget to be agreed with the Culture Moves Europe team according to individual needs.
• Family top-up: €100. Support for persons with children below the age of 10. The amount is fixed, regardless of the number of children.

The application will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Does the residency project provide an appropriate support to participants? For example, regarding planning, the environment, accommodation, etc.
• Is the selection process of the participating artists and cultural professionals clearly detailed and justified?
• Does the host act as a mentor and collaborator with the participating artists and cultural professionals?
• Is the residency project relevant to the applicants’ work and activities as well as to Culture Moves Europe’s objectives?
• Has the residency project long-term impact and benefits? For example for both host and participants, on local and/or national artistic and cultural ecosystem/sector.
• Does the project take sustainability into consideration?