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Culture Moves Europe - Individual Mobility of Artists + Cultural Professionals
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Rolling deadlines from 1st October 2025 to 30th April 2026
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.
Culture Moves Europe’s call for individual mobility targets artists and cultural professionals working in the following sectors: Architecture; Cultural Heritage; Design & Fashion Design; Literature; Music; Performing Arts; Visual Arts.
- Find out more about this round of Culture Moves Europe funding, eligibility, and how to apply.
- For full details of this call please refer to the Culture Moves Europe website page as the information contained here is for general information purposes only.
- This funding stream is managed and administered by Goethe-Istitut.
- In order to apply you must create an account on the Goethe Application Portal. Register as an 'individual' even if you are a group, then select Culture Moves Europe funding' and then select 'Call for individual mobility.'
- Please download 2025 Call Document for full details for individual mobility funding as the list below is only an indicator. Applicants are responsible for reading the Culture Moves Europe Call for Individual Mobility in its current version at the time of application.
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- The Individual Mobility Action of Culture Moves Europe provides financial support to artists and cultural professionals 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.
- This scheme covers the following sectors: Architecture; Cultural Heritage; Design & Fashion Design; Literature; Music; Performing Arts; Visual Arts.
Please download 2025 Call Document for full details for individual mobility funding as the list below is only an indicator. Applicants are responsible for reading the Culture Moves Europe Call for Individual Mobility in its current version at the time of application.
- Artists and cultural professionals, who are:
- Legally residing in one of the Creative Europe countries, including the overseas countries and territories and outermost regions.
- 18 years of age or older.
- Active in one of the following sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts; No specific level of experience is required.
- The call for individual mobility allows applications from individuals and groups of up to 5 people.
- Please download 2025 Call Document for full details for individual mobility funding as the list below is only an indicator. Applicants are responsible for reading the Culture Moves Europe Call for Individual Mobility in its current version at the time of application.
- One project: one artistic or cultural project to be carried out in another Creative Europe country, with the support of an international partner. This project must follow 2 of the following 3 objectives: to learn, to create, to explore, or to connect.
- One international partner: the international partner collaborates with the artists and cultural professionals during the project implementation. Applicants chose their own international partners, which can be an individual or an organisation.
- Supporting documents: applicants must upload the required supporting documents:
- official national identification
- proof of legal residence
- short curriculum vitae (CV)
- artistic and creative portfolio
- letter of invitation from the international partner
- The Creative Europe countries include the 27 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden) and Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine. This includes the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and Outermost Regions (ORs) of the European Union:
• Greenland (Denmark);
• French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New
Caledonia, Reunion Island, Saint Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna Islands (France);
• Azores, Madeira (Portugal);
• Canary Islands (Spain);
• Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius (The Netherlands).
- Please download 2025 Call Document for full details for individual mobility funding as the list below is only an indicator. Applicants are responsible for reading the Culture Moves Europe Call for Individual Mobility in its current version at the time of application..
- Daily allowance: €85 per day of project implementation.
- Travel allowance: travel distance under 5,000 km -> €400; travel distance from 5,000 km -> €800. The travel distance is calculated automatically in the application form, based on a one-way straight line.
- The grant offers additional funding, if applicable:
- Top-ups: Green mobility top-up: €400
- Overseas countries and territories / Outermost regions top-up: €175
- Family top-up: €200 per child
- Visa top-up: €120
- Accessibility support:
- €30 per day of project implementation
- Either the actual cost or a fixed allowance for personal assistance or sign language interpretation, depending on the assistant’s professional status.
- Please download 2025 Call Document for full details for individual mobility funding as the list below is only an indicator. Applicants are responsible for reading the Culture Moves Europe Call for Individual Mobility in its current version at the time of application.
- Create an account on the Goethe Application Portal. Register as an “individual” (even if you are a group), then select “Culture Moves Europe funding” and then “call for individual mobility”.
- Complete the application form in English. You don’t need to be fluent; using online translation tools is allowed, and language skills are not evaluated.
- Edit and save the draft application before making a final submission.
- Finalise and submit.
- All applicants must carefully read the call document before submitting their application.
- The deadlines for the call for individual mobility 2025-2026 are on a rolling basis as follows:
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