Currently 10 active cross-disciplinary and social impact grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the EU. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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PRAKSIS invites two artists or cultural practitioners based in Nordic/Baltic countries OUTSIDE Norway for a three-month residency in Oslo (16 September - 16 December 2026) exploring access, language, learning and institutional change. CONTEXT: the residency overlaps with PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board's activities and its Opening Doors project, a youth-led exploration of ways cultural institutions might communicate with, welcome and involve young people. Residents develop their own artistic or research practice while engaging in dialogue with young people, institutions and transnational peers. In October they will be invited to contribute to the Nordic Youth Conference in Oslo, developed with Index (Stockholm) and PUBLICS (Helsinki). DISCIPLINES: open to visual art, film, writing, performance, sound, design, architecture, socially engaged practice, education, publishing, curating, artistic research or interdisciplinary forms. ELIGIBILITY: individuals based in Nordic/Baltic countries OUTSIDE Norway, with a genuine interest in exchange, access, learning, communication or public engagement; prior experience working directly with young people is NOT required. PROGRAMME: part of PRAKSIS's 10-year anniversary programme, funded by the Nordic Culture Fund; Opening Doors is co-funded by the European Union via the Erasmus+ Youth programme. DEADLINE: 17 June 2026.
The Summer School: Innovation, Tech & Culture, organised by Onassis ONX and ACE for a third consecutive year, invites creative professionals and teams to explore the convergence of art, technology and sustainable entrepreneurship, bridging Culture and Digital Arts with Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship. The 2026 edition is again dedicated to 'Worldbuilding', a methodology that fuels innovation and fosters novel entrepreneurial models: the emphasis shifts from the project or end product to the narratives that frame and sustain them, building immersive worlds around products and turning the audience into co-shapers of the experience. The program challenges traditional product design and promotion practices by harnessing new technologies, art thinking and innovative design. SYLLABUS: Media & Art History; Speculative & Interactive Design Theory; Ethics, Art & Technology; Computational Creativity; AI-enabled Tech Development; Innovation & Entrepreneurship (business modeling and product validation); building for speed with venture capital backing; understanding the market and audience; branding, marketing and digital channels; and IP management, licensing and contracts. Participants attend lectures and receive mentorship from keynote speakers of AUEB, the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Onassis ONX Fellows, plus talks by leading international professionals such as artist-technologists Jiabao Li and Cooper Galvin. OPPORTUNITIES: access to funding opportunities and an incubation program for selected teams after completion; development of entrepreneurial, artistic and technological skills; and networking and growth opportunities for participating companies. WHO CAN APPLY: undergraduate and postgraduate students and early-career professionals; established professionals and corporate employees in arts, culture, design, marketing, technology and business administration. PARTICIPATION: individual application, or as a member of a corporate team or company representative; in-person attendance required; working language English; up to 30 participants. NOTE: this is a free educational program rather than a paid grant; no participation or application fee. Apply via the Onassis Directory by 21 June 2026. Inquiries: digital@onassis.org.
Open call from the Realities in Transition (RiT 2 - Unwritten Worlds) programme for artists and designers to co-create a collective XR artwork during a residency exploring telepresence and the shifting nature of presence in the digital age. The residency investigates how the body operates across physical and digital dimensions through motion capture and immersive environments, treating movement as a language that can be encoded, transformed and transmitted, and opening critical and speculative perspectives on authorship, identity and corporeality. MEDIUM: motion capture and immersivity. ELIGIBILITY: individual XR and immersive artists who are European residents; three artists are selected and joined by a creative technologist to work as a group. The residency alternates shared work, critical discussion and experimentation, from conception and prototyping to a public Test Lab and audience presentation, with a mentoring programme covering XR mediation, ethics and inclusion, accessibility, hybridisation of spaces, distribution and business models. Apply via the Realities in Transition open-call page.
Ettijahat's Zad programme is a support framework promoting mobility and communication for artists from the Arab region residing in Europe, designed to develop their artistic and professional path in collaboration with peers and across artistic spaces and platforms, while helping them reach diverse audiences and contribute to public life in their cities/countries of residence. SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES (examples): presenting theatrical works and live artistic performances; concerts at music festivals; streaming films in cities/places where they have not previously been shown; organising or joining literary readings; organising and relocating art exhibitions; sharing the outcomes of artist residencies. DISCIPLINES: all artistic and literary specialisations; open to artists of all ages. ELIGIBILITY: individual or group artists from the Arab region regardless of ethnic background who have relocated to Europe since 2015. PRIORITY for artists who moved from Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya. The programme encourages environmental and economic solutions when planning travel. DEADLINE: this card is for the 1 July 2026 cut-off (other cut-offs each have their own card). APPLY via the Ettijahat Zad page.
TBA21-Academy, in collaboration with NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities and the UNESCO Chair on Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development at Ca' Foscari University, is launching the first edition of the Tentacular Fellowship, an initiative-building fellowship based at Ocean Space and at Ca' Foscari in Venice. Conceived as a long-term platform for artistic research and ecological engagement, Ocean Space works to develop new forms of action capable of moving beyond awareness-raising to produce real, tangible territorial effects through situated collaboration with the communities, practitioners, researchers and civic actors already working within the Lagoon of Venice. The fellowship invites a practitioner or collective to initiate, consolidate or expand a situated initiative in the Lagoon through the creation of a Tentacular Unit: a collaborative, interdisciplinary platform able to gather artists, students, researchers, institutions, local communities and other actors around a specific socio-environmental challenge. Through situated research, alliance-building and public-facing formats, the fellow helps build the social, institutional and ecological conditions for the initiative to take root and grow over time. STRUCTURE: the two-year fellowship runs in two phases. In Phase 1 (incubation) the fellow is awarded a EUR 3,000 grant to support independent research and initiative development. In Phase 2 (activation) the fellow is awarded a EUR 8,000 grant plus a EUR 15,000 activation budget, for total fellowship support of EUR 26,000. Details on the application process, evaluation criteria and frequently asked questions are in the full open-call document. Application deadline: 5 July 2026, 11:59pm CET. Apply via the online form linked from the open-call page.
Tanztage Berlin, the long-running platform at Sophiensaele for emerging choreographers and performance makers, is accepting applications for its 2027 edition (the final edition under artistic director Mateusz Szymanowka). The festival supports work across contemporary dance, choreography, installation, video and expanded performance formats, in two tracks: premieres (new productions) and revivals (completed works). ELIGIBILITY: emerging artists connected to Berlin (early in their careers, newly living in Berlin, or without prior Berlin project funding); a meaningful professional relationship to the city is required, though formal residency registration is not. The festival particularly welcomes projects involving marginalised perspectives, intergenerational casts and disabled artists. Apply via the Tanztage Berlin open-call page.
Second open call from Ceske Budejovice - European Capital of Culture 2028, expanding the ECoC 2028 programme. It funds cultural projects with an artistic or cultural output for the public in 2028, implemented in Ceske Budejovice or the South Bohemian Region, built on regional, national and international cooperation. The 2026 call theme is (Perma)culture as a content framework (care for the Earth, people and the future) reflected through a project's process, content and/or impact, rather than as a literal agriculture/ecology theme. All cultural and artistic fields are eligible, with extra evaluation points for: contemporary and conceptual fine art (site-specific/public-space installations, participatory and intermedia projects); audiovisual, multimedia and digital arts, immersive content, video game development and film (immersive AV installations, interactive digital projects, videomapping, VR/AR/XR, art/educational games, digital art working with data, AI or game principles); architecture; contemporary design and fashion; contemporary music and sound art; and photography. ELIGIBILITY: the 2026 call is open to legal entities (organisations) with no territorial restriction (South Bohemia, Czech Republic, EU and worldwide). Individuals cannot apply but can join project teams. APPLICATION: submit the application and mandatory attachments by email to opencall@budejovice2028.cz (subject '(Perma)culture Open Call 2026 + [Applicant Name]') and via the registration form, plus submission via data box per the call conditions. Deadline 10 July 2026.
Individual interdisciplinary residency in La Massana, Andorra, in a natural mountain setting. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide to any professional from the arts, sciences and humanities with a project requiring focused working time; visual and audiovisual arts, crafts, photography, dramaturgy, performing arts, cinema, history, curating, criticism, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, journalism, science, research, biology, ecology, economics, law, writing and translation are all welcome. WHAT IS FUNDED: fully equipped apartment with work area, optional 30 sqm visual and performing arts workshop, and a daily allowance of EUR 60 to cover meals. Travel costs to/from Andorra and mandatory medical insurance are NOT covered. DURATION: 2 to 6 weeks; stays scheduled between February and November 2027. RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES: residents must propose at least two activities to carry out during the stay (one aimed at school and/or university students); at least one activity must be executed. SELECTION: priority to projects related to Andorra and to activities most attractive to the Andorran community; diversity of backgrounds and areas of work valued; previous Faberllull Olot/Faber Andorra residents may reapply but new candidates are preferred. APPLY: fill out the Faberllull form with a 1-page cover letter and a 2-page proposal of two possible activities; documentation accepted in Catalan, Spanish, English or French. TIMELINE: deadline 13 July 2026.
Fondation Camargo's 10-week residency for writers, scholars and artists on the Mediterranean coast in Cassis, France. About 14 fellows per cycle. Open to writers across genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation), as well as scholars and artists pursuing serious research, writing or creative projects in the humanities, social sciences and arts. ELIGIBILITY: international writers, scholars and artists; no nationality restriction.
Ettijahat's Zad programme is a support framework promoting mobility and communication for artists from the Arab region residing in Europe, designed to develop their artistic and professional path in collaboration with peers and across artistic spaces and platforms, while helping them reach diverse audiences and contribute to public life in their cities/countries of residence. SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES (examples): presenting theatrical works and live artistic performances; concerts at music festivals; streaming films in cities/places where they have not previously been shown; organising or joining literary readings; organising and relocating art exhibitions; sharing the outcomes of artist residencies. DISCIPLINES: all artistic and literary specialisations; open to artists of all ages. ELIGIBILITY: individual or group artists from the Arab region regardless of ethnic background who have relocated to Europe since 2015. PRIORITY for artists who moved from Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya. The programme encourages environmental and economic solutions when planning travel. DEADLINE: this card is for the 16 October 2026 cut-off (other cut-offs each have their own card). APPLY via the Ettijahat Zad page.