Entry 301993
- Culture Moves Europe Funding Webinar
- Thursday 11th December at 11:00am
- Please register here
Join us for an Information Clinic on Culture Moves Europe - Individual Mobility of Artists + Cultural Professionals on Thursday 11th December at 11:00am.
We will explain how this funding scheme works, who is eligible, activities that can be funded, and how to apply. Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility of Artists + Cultural Professionals applies to people working in Architecture; Cultural Heritage; Design & Fashion Design; Literature; Music; Performing Arts; and Visual Arts.
We will also welcome artist Elinor O'Donovan who was awarded Culture Moves Europe funding in 2023 for her project Wild Geese 2: Wilder Geese (2023, 4k video, colour sound, 3:36 min). A response to the Mary Oliver poem ‘Wild Geese’, this short film considers cosmic nihilism and suggests an alternative. Supported by Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Funding (2023). Completed on residency at Fish Factory, Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. Elinor will talk about her project and her experience of Culture Moves Europe funding.
About Elinor O'Donovan
Elinor O'Donovan is a visual artist based in Dublin. Working primarily in film and installation, she speculates playful responses to questions about knowledge, memory and truth. Drawing heavily on pop cultural references and tropes, she recontextualises shared symbols to question what assumptions they may impart. Playfulness is key to her methodology, using visual wit to engage with complex themes such as personal identity and western cultural myths.
Elinor is a studio member at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and has exhibited in solo and group shows across Ireland, the UK, Portugal, Italy, South Korea, and Mexico. Solo exhibitions include: Metametamorphosis, 36 Gallery, Newcastle, (2026); The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn, GeneratorProjects, Dundee (2023); Brain Worms, Sample-Studios at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork (2021); and Brain Worms: Redux, 126 Gallery, Galway (2021). Selected commissions include: Crawford Art Gallery and Cork Midsummer Festival (2024); and Island City: Cork’s Public Art Trail, commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory and Cork City Council (2023). She is a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), and the Cork Midsummer Festival Jane Anne Rothwell Award (2024). In 2024, Elinor O'Donovan was shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award.
About Culture Moves Europe
Culture Moves Europe is a mobility scheme that supports individual mobility and residency projects across Creative Europe countries, territories, and regions. It endows grants to artists and cultural professionals to travel and carry out a project in another Creative Europe country.
The new call opened on 1st October and has rolling monthly deadlines with the first deadline being 31st October 2025 and the last being 30th April 2026. See below for all deadlines and more details about the call and applications.
Please note there is no end of December 2025 deadline.
Culture Moves Europe Deadlines
- 2025 - 30th November (no December deadline)
- 2026 - 31 January / 29 February / 31 March / 30 April
Contact the Culture Office if you need any advice about this funding call.
Find Out More
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.'
For full details of this call please refer to the Culture Moves Europe website page.
Culture Moves Europe Artist: Naomi Louisa O’Connell
The image above is of Naomi Louisa O’Connell, performing artist, actor and singer who received CME funding for 'Falling in Love Again,' her research project into the cabaret archives at Berlin’s Akademie der Künste with a focus on the music and life of composer & writer, Friedrich Hollaender.
Image by Dario Acosta and courtesy of Naomi who also appears in our forthcoming Across Borders publication which will feature case studies of Irish projects funded in 2023 to 2024 including Culture Moves Europe projects.