Culture Moves Europe January Q&A Sessions

With the start of the New Year, Goethe-Istitut will host online Q&A sessions on the two currently open Culture Moves Europe calls: Individual Mobility and Residency Hosts.

Online Culture Moves Europe Webinar Schedule

• Residency Hosts Q&A on Friday 9 January, 10am Irish time (11am CET)
• Individual Mobility Q&A on Friday 16 January, 10am Irish time (11am CET)
• Individual Mobility Q&A on Friday 23 January, 10am Irish time (11am CET)
• Register for Culture Moves Europe Q&A Sessions.

Check the Culture Moves Europe Linktree for details of their Q&A sessions and open funding calls.

Culture Moves Europe Call for Residency Hosts

The call for residency hosts provides financial support to legal entities wishing to host artists and cultural professionals for a residency project. The residency project should pursue two of the following objectives:

• Explore: conduct research, to investigate and work on a specific theme or a new concept.
• Create: engage in a collective creative process seeking to produce a new piece of artistic/cultural work.
• Learn: enhance the participants’ competences and skills through for example through collaboration with a specialist.
• Connect: develop a professional network, to strengthen the participants’ professional development, to engage with new audiences.
• Transform: contribute to societal change in line with the New European Bauhaus values and principles.
• The residency duration can range between 21 and 90 days. Based on the number of days, the residency can be categorised as short-term (21 to 31 days), medium-term (32 to 62 days) or long-term (63 to 90 days).
• Deadline:16 March 2026.

Find out more on our on funding page or go to the Culture Moves Europe website.

Culture Moves Europe’s call for Individual Mobility

This funding is for artists and cultural professionals working in the following sectors: Architecture; Cultural Heritage; Design & Fashion Design; Literature; Music; Performing Arts; Visual Arts.

• Culture Moves Europe's Individual Mobility funding 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.
• 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.
• 2026 Deadlines: 31 January; 29 February; 31 March; 30 April.

Find out more and apply.

Individual Mobility Call Webinar Playback

For more information on the Individual Mobility call watch our recent webinar below which features 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).

Elinor talks about her residency at Fish Factory, Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. Elinor gives some great insights into how she applied for funding and the work she achieved on her residency in Iceland.