Currently 132 active paid grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the EU, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. 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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ONX Seeds 2026 is a four-month incubation and seed funding program run by Onassis ONX, the Onassis Foundation's platform for art and advanced technologies, hosted in Athens in a hybrid format under the theme Soft Circuits for Hard Times. It invites emerging artists, creative technologists, designers, game makers, performers, sound and visual artists and makers (individuals, groups and collectives, Greek and international) to develop early-stage prototypes that make the digital tangible: interactive objects, wearable or embedded systems, screen-based worlds, participatory environments, games, rituals, sonic works, moving images and hybrid analogue-digital forms. Proposals should be realistic in scope and result in an exhibitable prototype. SUPPORT: EUR 1,000 to 5,000 seed funding per project, weekly technical mentoring plus curatorial and business mentoring and online masterclasses, studio and equipment access at Onassis Ready for Athens-based teams (remote participation for everyone else), presentation at ONX Exhibition Athens (17 to 21 March 2027) with travel, accommodation and artwork transport covered for non-Athens participants, and connections to the ONX network in Athens, New York and beyond. HOW TO APPLY: via the Onassis open calls portal, with project summary, concept, visitor experience, technical requirements, production plan and bio, plus a mood board or project deck, portfolio and development budget as single PDFs; technical documentation and links to demos or repositories optional. DEADLINE: 26 October 2026.
Thirtieth edition of VEGAP's Propuestas grants for visual creation, a competition conceived by artists to support other artists, run through the collecting society's Fondo Asistencial y Cultural. It funds the development of a creative project or the production of new work. GRANTS: 20 grants of EUR 5,000 each from a total pot of EUR 100,000. CATEGORIES: one project per author in visual (plastic) arts, photography, graphic design, illustration or new forms of artistic expression; industrial designs are not accepted as graphic design proposals. ELIGIBILITY: natural persons only, individually or in collaboration with other authors; open to authors residing in Spain regardless of nationality, or Spanish citizens residing abroad, who have not received aid from the Fundacion Arte y Derecho or VEGAP in any previous Propuestas or Secuencias call. HOW: digital submission only, via the registration form on the Propuestas site, with a single PDF containing project description, work schedule, budget, CV, portfolio and ID copy. DEADLINE: 26 October 2026 at 12:00 noon (opened 7 September 2026).
HIAP's Learning Materials international residency hosts artists at HIAP Suomenlinna, the island fortress off Helsinki, for 90 days in Spring 2027 (12 April to 11 July) or Autumn 2027 (16 August to 14 November). The call suits artists with established material-based practices, socially engaged practitioners and researchers exploring ecology and materials; the residency is research-focused with no required output. DISCIPLINES: digital, visual arts, interdisciplinary and research practices. WHAT YOU GET: a working grant of EUR 1,350 per month (EUR 4,050 in total) via Kone Foundation, a material budget up to EUR 750, an access budget up to EUR 1,000, one return trip from the artist's home with slow travel encouraged and help with travel arrangements, plus accommodation and workspace. ELIGIBILITY: international artists and arts practitioners living and working outside Finland. Collectives may apply, but the working grant can be paid to one individual only and there are no extra residency fees or additional travel budget. APPLICATION: free, via the online form on the HIAP website. DEADLINE: 26 October 2026, 15:00 UTC.
Part of the Creative Europe project Invisible Cartographies (Buinho with FabLab Cuenca, Spain, and the Veljko Ramadanovic School, Serbia), which creates sensory cartographies of public spaces, schools and museums with neurodivergent communities. Two artists live in Messejana for six weeks (11 January to 21 February 2027) and work with students of the Agrupamento de Escolas de Aljustrel; proposals should sketch what you want to investigate and how you might work with the school community, and need not be a finished plan. SUPPORT: EUR 1,200 artist fee, free accommodation, travel budget up to EUR 300, production budget, and access to Buinho's FabLab. ELIGIBILITY: preference for neurodivergent artists; self-identification is enough, no diagnosis or documentation required; applicants must commit to the full period and, if selected, provide a criminal-record certificate for work with minors. APPLICATION: online in English or Portuguese; written answers (500-word expression of interest, 750-word proposal) or audio/video recordings (5 and 7 minutes) assessed equally; portfolio by link or upload (under 10 MB); access rider and consent sections included. Questions and access needs: info@buinho.pt. NOTE: this funded call is separate from Buinho's regular paid residencies; two further calls (Cuenca, Belgrade) are announced but not yet open. DEADLINE: 26 October 2026, 23:59 Lisbon time.
Travel voucher for Dutch-based professionals in design, architecture and/or digital culture who have been invited by a foreign party to give a presentation, lecture or workshop. To apply you must have submitted an application to the Fund in the past five years that was positively assessed (previous International Vouchers do not count). The inviting foreign party must cover a proportionate share of the costs. Covers hourly fees, travel and accommodation directly related to the activity. IMPORTANT TIMING RULE: applications are accepted from 5 months to a minimum of 7 weeks before the activity begins, and processing takes about 6 weeks. This lead time can rule out activities that fall shortly after a round opens. Round 2 (4 May to 22 June 2026) has closed. Round 3 runs 8 September 2026 15:00 CEST to 27 October 2026 16:00 CEST, with a budget of EUR 33,000; given the 7-week rule it effectively serves activities starting from late October 2026 onwards. IMPORTANT PREREQUISITE: you must already have had an application to the Fund positively assessed within the past five years, and a previous voucher does not satisfy this, so this is not a viable first approach to the Fund. The window runs 8 September 2026, 15:00 CEST to 27 October 2026, but closes early once 20 complete applications are received. Maximum one voucher per applicant per calendar year.
Travel-grant programme for individual cultural-sector professionals (artists included) funding mobilities to or from Timisoara, national and international: residencies, research trips, festivals, presentations and professional development. Continuous intake until the budget is exhausted. AMOUNTS: up to RON 7,500 for national mobilities and RON 10,000 for international ones; at least 1% co-funding required. ELIGIBILITY: natural persons aged 18+, Romanian or foreign nationals, active in cultural professions; recipients of the 2025 mobility funding are excluded. DEADLINE: rolling registrations close 27 October 2026 or when the budget runs out, so apply early.
The ETH AI Center's flagship fellowship programme funds doctoral and postdoctoral researchers doing interdisciplinary AI research, either within AI foundations or between AI foundations and application areas, including safe and trustworthy AI. Fellows are co-supervised across ETH groups and join the AI Center's community. ELIGIBILITY: doctoral track needs a Master's in computer science, machine learning, statistics, physics, engineering, applied mathematics or a related field, completed by June 2027; postdoc track needs a PhD completed by June 2027. Two to three reference letters are required. Selection weighs research excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration and impact orientation. APPLICATION: separate portals for the doctoral and postdoc tracks (linked from the programme page); deadline 27 October 2026 at 16:00 CET. Related CLS and ELLIS PhD tracks have their own applications.
Cas-co and Kunsthal Mechelen invite four Belgium-based early-career visual artists to the Ernest Albert Invitational 2027, a four-month Artistic Development Residency at Cas-co in Leuven within the Off the Grid programme, running in parallel with a Reflective Residency for a researcher who accompanies the group. Residents receive a studio, curatorial guidance and peer exchange, and develop new work towards a group exhibition at Kunsthal Mechelen, 4 June to 29 August 2027, curated by Jessica Meuleman (Kunsthal Mechelen), Zuzanna Rachowska and Arthur Cordier (Cas-co). THEME: the edition departs from landscape understood as a field of relations shaped by memory, ecology, migration and lived experience, and welcomes practices that move between inner and outer worlds across installation, performance, moving image, sound and other experimental forms. SUPPORT: EUR 1,100 artist fee per month, EUR 120 transportation allowance per month, and a one-time production budget of EUR 1,200 (EUR 6,080 total including VAT), plus additional artist and production fees from Kunsthal Mechelen for the exhibition. ELIGIBILITY: Belgium-based visual artists at an early stage of their career with limited institutional or commercial visibility, committed to professionalising their practice through research and experimentation, and open to dialogue and collective participation. HOW TO APPLY: one PDF (max 10 MB) with a description of your practice, a residency proposal, an exhibition proposal, CV and portfolio, via the online application form (Google Form linked from the call page). Deadline 28 October 2026 at 23:59 CET.
Annual vocation bursaries for young talents in six fields including arts plastiques, arts de la scene and sciences et techniques; digital and media artists apply under arts plastiques or sciences et techniques. The EUR 10,000 bourse funds a concrete personal project: equipment, production or training. Vocatio operates under the King Baudouin Foundation umbrella but is a distinct foundation and call. ELIGIBILITY: over 18 and under 35 on 31 December of the application year; Belgian nationals OR persons domiciled in Belgium and resident there for at least 5 years. Call open 14 September to 29 October 2026, 16:00. DEADLINE: 29 October 2026.
The NORMA Fonds redistributes copyright remuneration collected by Stichting NORMA into cultural, social and professional projects involving performing artists, and is one of the few Dutch schemes with four intakes a year and a genuinely short cycle. Both arts-sector organisations and individual arts professionals may apply, though the applicant needs a bank account and legal footing and cannot be a BIS-funded institution. The project must centre on performing artists in the copyright sense, meaning people who perform a copyright-protected work: musicians, dancers, actors, voice actors. This fits live experimental music, sound performance and performative media-art work, but not object-based exhibitions or non-performative installation programmes. The maximum grant is EUR 10,000, the total project budget must stay under EUR 150,000, the applicant's annual budget under EUR 500,000, and at least a quarter of the project budget must be earned from audience income, so this is a top-up rather than a primary funding source. Budgets must honour NORMA's 2026 performer wage norms. Applications are submitted online during a one-month window each quarter; the next round runs 1 to 30 October 2026, closing at 23:59. TIMING RULE: decisions arrive no later than eight weeks after the deadline, and the premiere date must fall at least eight weeks after the application deadline. Organisations that already received a NORMA Fonds grant in 2024 or 2025 are excluded, and supporting staff may not exceed 2 FTE.
The 7th call of the Art Explora residency programme at the Cité internationale des arts opened 21 September 2026. The programme supports projects exploring the crossovers of art with science, technology and ecology, which makes it one of the stronger art-science fits in Europe. Residents receive a furnished live-work studio of around 50 m2 in Paris, EUR 1,000 per month living stipend, up to EUR 3,000 production budget, round-trip travel and mentoring, with residencies of 3 or 6 months for solo artists and 3 months for duos of an artist with a researcher, curator or writer. Open to visual, performing and digital artists of all nationalities and ages with at least 5 years of professional experience and an international exhibition record. Programme details at artexplora.org. TO APPLY: submit via the Art Explora application platform. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026, 11:59 PM Paris time.
AFTER THE PALACE: Resonance 2026 is an international video mapping competition and outdoor showcase that asks digital media artists to creatively reinterpret the dissonant heritage of socialist-era architecture in the context of the history, cultural identity and memory of Krakow's Nowa Huta. Artists, animators, motion designers, creative teams and studios worldwide are invited to create original site-specific projections for the courtyard facade of Building Z of the New Administrative Centre, formerly part of the Lenin Steelworks. Organised by the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow as part of the international artistic and research project unLoc. TECHNICAL: 2D/3D video mapping with sound, 1 to 8 minutes, MP4 (H.264/AAC) in 4K at 25 fps, minimum 40 Mbps, audio 48 kHz/16-bit, built on the dedicated building mapping matrix from the document package. Generative AI tools are permitted provided their use is fully disclosed in the application form and the applicant holds rights to the source materials. TIMELINE: submission deadline 30 October 2026, 23:59 CET; results by 10 November; outdoor showcase and award ceremony 23 November 2026 in the courtyard at 1 Ujastek St, Krakow. TO APPLY: submit the online application form with a download link to the work; the full regulations and mapping matrix are at unloc.art. Contact unloc@uken.krakow.pl.
The EU Delegation to the United States invites mid-career and established visual artists from the 27 EU Member States to apply for the Transatlantic Stars Visual Arts Program 2027, an eight-week artist-in-residence placement at one of six residency sites across the United States from April to early June 2027. Each artist is paired one-to-one with a local American collaborator to co-create work, and must produce at least one physical artwork; the programme concludes with a mandatory two-day summit in Washington, D.C., where the resulting works are exhibited. All visual mediums with a physical space component are accepted. SUPPORT: a living stipend and a materials budget, plus airfare, visa assistance, on-site lodging, studio space, and access to host facilities, equipment and community networks. ELIGIBILITY: citizens of an EU Member State with a valid passport; mid-career or established artists who meet at least four of five professional standing criteria; English proficiency; availability for the full April to early June 2027 period. APPLICATIONS: via the Airtable form linked from the call page. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026 at 11:59 PM CET, or earlier if the cap of 300 applications is reached first. Contact: arts@trsproject.eu. Parallel Transatlantic Stars calls for film and music run on the same deadline.
Finland's largest private foundation moves to a single joint application round in 2026: the central fund and all 17 regional funds accept applications together from 15 to 30 October. It funds all fields of art and science, with one-year and multi-year working grants as the cornerstone alongside project grants for individuals, working groups and organisations. SCALE: around EUR 49 million awarded annually across roughly 2,100 grants (about 20,600 applications in 2025, including 165 multi-year grants); recent October rounds averaged over 450 grants of one or more years, and working grants can extend up to four years. ELIGIBILITY: Finnish nationals and people or organisations residing or working in Finland; other applicants qualify if the application demonstrates clear, strong ties to Finland or Finnish culture. HOW: apply online during the window via the foundation's grant service. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026.
Cultivamos Cultura in Sao Luis (Odemira, Portugal) hosts the Bom Dia residency as part of the European OASis project: one proposal is selected for a 7-to-30-day residency during March 2027. Residents engage with the local community (artist talks, walks, workshops, open studios) and must produce an output for the OASis group exhibition in 2027; one output is added to Cultivamos Cultura's collection, and documentation is shared across OASis partner channels. WHO: international creators, artists and researchers from various fields and disciplines, including practitioners working at the intersection of culture and other disciplines; individuals or groups of up to two people (conditions and funding are the same for a pair as for one individual); selected residents must be physically present for the approved timeline and reasonably autonomous in producing the project. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 1,300 project fee, travel budget up to EUR 500, production and material expenses up to EUR 1,600 (approved by Cultivamos Cultura before purchase, paid against an invoice), equitable food per diem, accommodation in a private room in a shared farmhouse on the Cultivamos Cultura property with shared kitchen, a workspace or studio, and free access to all spaces and resources. APPLICATION: via Google Form; the call runs 18 September to 30 October 2026, 18:00 CET, but closes early once 100 applications are received, so apply promptly. Results announced in the third week of December 2026; no individual feedback. Full details at cultivamoscultura.com.
Cultivamos Cultura, the art-science and bioart organisation in rural Sao Luis (Odemira, Portugal), hosts the Bom Dia residency as part of the OASis programme. One selected proposal (individual or a group of up to two people, same conditions) spends 7 to 30 days in March 2027 producing an artwork that joins the OASis group exhibition in 2027, is shown locally and across the OASis network, and leaves one output in the Cultivamos Cultura collection. SUPPORT: project grant of EUR 1,300; travel budget up to EUR 500; production and material costs up to EUR 1,600 (approved before purchase, paid on invoice); daily food allowance; private room in a shared farmhouse with shared kitchen; studio and free access to all Cultivamos Cultura spaces and resources. ELIGIBILITY: international artists, creators and researchers from any field, including practitioners working between culture and other disciplines. ASSESSMENT PRIORITIES: use of local or natural materials, strong ecological interest, care for a sustainable future, community interaction, and exchange with international artists. OBLIGATIONS: stay on site for the whole approved period, engage the local community (artist talks, walks, workshops or open studios), and create an output for the 2027 exhibition and the collection; travel beyond the village means renting a car from the production grant. APPLY with a project statement (max 500 words) with images, an estimated resources list, a signed declaration of originality, portfolio or website plus short CV (max 4 pages), a timeline, and five images for communication. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026 at 18:00 CET, or earlier if 100 applications are received first; results in the third week of December 2026.
First edition of an international call for artists under 35 working with artificial intelligence, digital languages and emerging technologies, run by 360° Creativity Events APS for PARMA 360 Festival and Parma European Youth Capital 2027. It follows the 2026 pilot exhibition SYNTHETIC HORIZONS (curated by Chiara Canali). The call focuses on open-source and closed-source image and video generation tools and their creative, social and cultural impact. THEMES: Parma Heritage (crafts, traditions, archives, immersive storytelling of the city); La Cura / Care (wellbeing, accessibility, AI ethics, health tech, public space); Sustainability and Data Ecology (energy and water cost of AI, data extraction and digital colonialism, waste of digital images, ethics of automated production). ACCEPTED FORMATS: digital and synthetic images, NFTs, printed digital photography, digital/3D-printed sculpture, video, audio, interactive browser or chatbot installations, software art, VR, AR, sound art, performance and hybrids. Works must already be completed but need not be unpublished. One application per artist. REQUIRED: an Artist Statement (max 1,500 characters) on how you use AI, naming software, models and workflow; missing statements are excluded. SELECTION: a jury of the PARMA 360 artistic direction, the Parma EYC27 committee and AI/new-tech experts picks 20 finalists (at least 3 from the Parma area), announced from 1 December 2026; finalists show in a group exhibition curated by Chiara Canali in Parma in April-May 2027. The organiser covers shipping to the show and AV equipment hire and gives finalists one hotel night at the opening; return shipping and travel are at the artist's cost. Prize-winning works are acquired in full or in part. AGE: must not have turned 35 by the closing date. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026, midnight Rome time, via the Google Form linked in the call. Questions: aihorizonscall@gmail.com.
Umbrella request for proposals for ambitious AI-first projects that make the transition to capable AI go well and use it to unlock science. Three connected layers, each with its own detailed call: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals or communities physically own and control); II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralized alignment, human empowerment, AI insurance and open governance); III. AI-First Science: Bio, Neuro, Nano (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, replacement, enhancement, biostasis). AI-first means AI is the primary engine of progress, not tapped onto an existing research program; strong proposals identify narrow bottlenecks and propose something that can be built, tested or measured. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and scientific network. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding); applicants who want to be active in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Grants typically $30,000 to $100,000, smaller for the Human Empowerment and AI Insurance & Open Governance areas and higher for the rest. Review takes about three months after the deadline. Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
Track I of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds building and scaling local compute setups that individuals or communities physically own and control. With five companies holding 71 percent of the world's AI compute, researchers relying on APIs and rented compute face data exposure, steep price increases and the risk of losing access altogether; open models are ready for serious science and safety work, but the ecosystem lacks sovereign and secure compute infrastructure. LOOKING FOR: local compute clusters in different sizes and configurations that are easy to set up and run across varied connectivity and electricity environments; blueprints for easy yet secure cluster management; models for bringing down cost, like selling idle compute or connecting to community clusters; ideally a business case for building, selling and distributing such clusters at scale. EXAMPLE DELIVERABLES: a prototype AI cluster an average person can deploy at home, software that runs a node without expert knowledge, economic models showing how the hardware pays for itself, a pilot deployment for individuals or communities. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
Track II of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds ways for increasingly capable AI systems to coordinate with each other, the people using them, and the wider world, without handing power to a single model, lab or government. THREE FOCUS AREAS: (1) Supercollaboration and decentralized alignment: coordination and credit-assignment protocols, tooling for massive human-AI collectives, incentive designs robust to gaming, mutual monitoring and cross-checking among agents, scalable verification, and open coordination protocols built on boundaries as Schelling points for multi-agent coordination. (2) Human Empowerment: evidence, decision rules and working tools for when human control genuinely empowers people versus when AI delegation is preferable, including a 'when to defer control' framework and mechanisms to detect and fix hollow oversight. (3) AI Insurance and Open Governance: building a middle layer between lab self-governance and government regulation, such as ways for insurers to judge and price frontier-lab risk, independent incident reporting and assessment that does not leak lab secrets, and mechanisms like developer mutuals, catastrophe bonds or liability for near-misses. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
Track III of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds AI-first science in bio, neuro and nano: work that asks what important science is stuck, what it is actually stuck on, and whether we can build the thing that removes that constraint. THREE FOCUS AREAS: (1) Automated nanotechnology: AI methods for nanoscale design, simulation and assembly, closed-loop fabrication and characterization tools, credible application pathways from toy problems to medicine, environment and bottom-up production, and defensive applications and safety frameworks. (2) Whole-brain emulation: cheaper and faster brain mapping and preservation, bringing down the cost of connectomics through better imaging or cheaper proofreading, lo-fi emulation pathways that predict organism behavior from behavioral and neural data, and shorter experimental feedback loops in neurobiology. (3) Replacement, Enhancement, Biostasis: longevity work including tissue engineering, organ synthesis, 3D bioprinting and progressive replacement strategies; reversible biostasis for organs and full humans with improved preservation and revival protocols and organ banking; and datasets for independently testing genetic predictors, gene editing and better measures of aging. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
First visiting-fellow cohort of the newly launched KU Leuven AI Safety Lab, a multidisciplinary research group on large-scale risks of advanced AI (independent research, policy workshops, a summer school and an annual conference). Five fellows spend March to May 2027 in Leuven under two programmes: Theories of Victory and Viable Endgames (positive AI futures and the conditions for beneficial advanced AI outcomes) and Democratic Control over AI Companies (power concentration and mechanisms for societal oversight of frontier AI developers); strong AI safety proposals outside these two areas are also considered. ELIGIBILITY: PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and researchers outside academia, from any relevant discipline; applications from underrepresented groups encouraged. APPLICATION: email a CV (max 2 pages including publications), a one-page cover letter and a research plan (max 1,500 words) to existentialrisk@kuleuven.be with subject line 'Fellowship application' plus the programme name. Deadline 31 October 2026.
Frame Contemporary Art Finland distributes Ministry of Education and Culture funds to promote Finnish contemporary art internationally. The October 2026 round covers two grant types: MOBILITY GRANTS (EUR 250-5,000) for international presentation of existing artworks and professional networking, such as art fair participation; and PRODUCTION GRANTS (EUR 2,500-8,000) for a new commission or international co-production, which requires additional funding and a collaboration agreement. Trips and presentations must take place outside Finland; events in Finland are not eligible. The field is mainly visual art with an emphasis on contemporary art. ELIGIBILITY: natural persons (artists, art experts, working groups) and registered organisations that are Finnish or Finland-based; projects must promote Finnish or Finland-based artists or professionals or showcase Finnish art; expenses for international artists not living in Finland are excluded, and only activity after the application period closes can be funded. Apply via Frame's online grant service in Finnish, Swedish or English. The next round (February 2027) adds publication grants. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026, 23:59.
Foresight Institute's AI for Science and Safety Nodes request for proposals funds open, AI-first projects across three calls: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals and communities physically own and control), II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralised alignment, human empowerment, and AI insurance and open governance: multi-agent oversight and verification, tools for collective deliberation, decision rules for when human control adds value, and independent risk assessment or insurance mechanisms for frontier labs), and III. AI-first Science (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, frontier bio). Grantees can also get workspace in the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes (a community xNode runs in Cape Town) and private compute. All funded code, data and outputs must be open-sourced. Projects are judged on fit with the focus area, impact on reducing existential risk from AI, feasibility within 1 to 3 years, AI-first working methods, ability to execute, and high-risk, high-reward potential. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams and organisations worldwide; nonprofits and for-profits welcome (for-profits must justify the need for grant funding). Priority goes to applicants who want to work in person at one of the Nodes, but it is not required. Review takes about three months; applications can opt in to sharing with Lightcone Commons. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
A one-off 2026 call letting Dutch cultural institutions reuse and adapt digital technology that other institutions have already built and published in the open DigitALL Toolkit, for example translation software shared between theatres or a streaming platform adapted for a new venue. Grants run up to EUR 30,000 and cover technical modification, integration, production and deployment costs. Eligible applicants are museums, theatres, music venues, festivals, film theatres and professional performing arts producers. Applications are submitted online and assessed in order of receipt rather than comparatively, with a decision within ten weeks. The deadline was extended from 31 May 2026 to 1 November 2026 after high demand. IMPORTANT RESTRICTION: this route cannot be used to further develop your own pilot internally; it exists specifically to spread another institution's working technology across the sector. For developing something new, use the DigitALL pilot contribution instead.
Alpaca is a festival and conference on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts, run by the non-profit Pattern Club in Sheffield. It brings together live coders, weavers, braiders, origami makers, musicians and other practitioners who make patterns by procedure, and it welcomes contemporary algorithmic art that is human-authored. THEME (talks): making languages and notations for making patterns, with unexpected interpretations welcome. WHAT YOU CAN PROPOSE: live performances, hands-on workshops, and roughly 20-minute conference talks; accepted abstracts (max two pages) are published open access with a DOI and may be invited into an edited volume. WHAT YOU GET: performers receive an artist fee plus national travel; workshop leaders receive an artist fee, materials and national travel. The organisers state they cannot confirm fee amounts at this stage and may cover extra costs on request; international travel is not covered apart from a small European train budget. Talks are unpaid: in-person speakers get a free festival pass and lunch on the conference days. EXCLUSIONS: submissions focused on generative AI or unsupervised pattern generation by LLMs. APPLICATION: via the online form at calls.alpaca.cc; questions to contact@alpaca.cc. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026.
The Follow Fluxus scholarship, awarded by the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden and the City of Wiesbaden in memory of the Fluxus movement that began in Wiesbaden in 1962, supports artists whose work continues the open, intermedia and experimental spirit of Fluxus. WHO: international and national artists with a completed art degree and relevant professional and exhibition experience; self-taught artists with notable achievements documented through exhibitions and awards may also apply. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 10,000, a rent-free furnished live/work space with studio at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden (70.88 sqm) from 1 June to 31 August 2027, during which the fellow is expected to spend most of their time in Wiesbaden, and an exhibition at the Nassauischer Kunstverein afterwards. APPLICATION: upload three PDFs (max 10 MB; German or English) to nowtransfer.de: APF_ApplicantName.pdf (application letter, CV and project outline, one A4 page each), Portfolio_ApplicantName.pdf (work examples, exhibitions, video/audio links) and Degree_ApplicantName.pdf; then email the download link to fluxus@kunstverein-wiesbaden.de with the subject 'Follow Fluxus Scholarship 2026_27'. Postal applications are also accepted. Results by December 2026. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, email received by 23:59 CET.
Twice-yearly open round of Germany's federal fund for participatory and sociocultural arts projects: community-rooted work that uses artistic means (performance, media, music, visual art, digital culture) to engage people in social questions. Strong fit for artist collectives and small cultural organisations doing participatory, socially engaged or civic-media work in Germany. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 5,000 to EUR 30,000, up to 80 percent of the project budget, decided in January 2027 with project starts from February 2027. ELIGIBILITY: legal entities and groups (associations, initiatives of at least three people resident in Germany, GbR, GmbH, UG, private foundations); individuals cannot apply alone. Organisations that received two consecutive grants must sit out two rounds. The fund explicitly welcomes applications from people with disabilities, non-native speakers and non-academics. DEADLINE: 2 November 2026 via the application portal (window opened 2 October); a digital info session runs on 14 October 2026.
The Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme (USRP), run by HIAP with partner residencies and supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, offers residencies across Finland for professional Ukrainian or Ukraine-based artists and arts practitioners affected by the war, whether still in Ukraine or based elsewhere. WHAT YOU GET: a working grant of EUR 1,200 per month, free living and working space, one return trip from the artist's home, and a small access budget for disabled artists. HOSTS: HIAP Suomenlinna in Helsinki (families welcome), AARK in the Turku Archipelago (families welcome), Art Centre Salmela in Mantyharju, eco art residency Fairres in Porvoo, Nelimarkka Artist Residency in Alajarvi, Vartsila Art House in North Karelia (prioritises artists with families) and Gjutars Artists House in Vantaa; some hosts take up to four people including family members, and applicants state their preferred location and length in the form. ELIGIBILITY: professional Ukrainian or Ukraine-based artists and arts practitioners from all disciplines, affected by the war in Ukraine. APPLICATION: in English via the online form only (hiap.fi/usrp-application-form); professional background and current situation (up to 250 words or 2 minutes each, text, audio or video accepted) and a portfolio link of up to 10 pages or 5 minutes; access requirements can be shared confidentially. DEADLINE: 2 November 2026, 15:00 (GMT+2); jury meets in November.
EMMA Kreativzentrum Pforzheim, with Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences and the Design Center Baden-Wuerttemberg, offers three scholarships for international young designers to spend three months working in Pforzheim. WHO: designers in jewellery, fashion, accessories, industrial design, communication design and other design disciplines; interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. No age limit or nationality rule is stated. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 1,000 per month, coverage of material costs, free accommodation, reimbursed travel to and from Pforzheim, a fully equipped workstation at the creative centre and optional use of the university workshops. The residency runs from 1 April to 30 June 2027 and ends with an exhibition at EMMA. APPLICATION: online via the EMMA application portal only. DEADLINE: 2 November 2026, 23:59 CET.
HIAP and Sumud, the Finnish Palestine Network, invite a Palestinian artist to a spring 2027 residency at the Cable Factory in Helsinki, delivered through HIAP's Ukraine Solidarity Residency Programme and supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. WHO: professional contemporary artists currently based in Palestine or of Palestinian descent living in the diaspora; formal education, exhibition history or institutional recognition is not required. Family members are welcome; collectives receive no extra grant or travel budget. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 3,600 working grant, a free 63 sqm live/work studio with kitchenette, sleeping loft and private bathroom (suited to two adults or a small family), one trip to and from home, and a visa budget for application fees and travel to a visa office or embassy (HIAP cannot guarantee visas). APPLICATION: online form only, in English; emailed applications are not considered. DEADLINE: 2 November 2026, 15:00 (GMT+2).
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA), an initiative of the European Festivals Association co-funded by the European Union, opens its fifth call: 50 residencies for 50 emerging artists (individuals, groups or collectives) hosted by partnerships of around 150 festivals, each led by one leading festival with a minimum of two partner festivals from different eligible countries. TWO CATEGORIES: EFFEA Discovery, 40 grants of EUR 8,000 for artists at the early stages of their careers with strong potential to break through internationally; and EFFEA Springboard, 10 grants of EUR 15,000 for artists already established in their own country and ready to develop their careers internationally. A Discovery residency includes a work-in-progress presentation at the leading festival, a workshop with programmers from each partner festival, a short film about the residency, and participation in the EFFEA Intake and Outtake Seminars; a Springboard residency includes at least three presentations of the production result (leading festival plus each partner festival) and a live masterclass by the artist in at least three countries. DISCIPLINES: architecture, ballet, contemporary dance, circus, design and applied arts, digital arts, film, folklore and folk arts, heritage, interdisciplinary, literature, music, opera, street art, theatre, photography and video, puppetry, sculpture, painting. WHO APPLIES: the leading festival submits the application online via the EFFEA website and proposes the artists; festivals must be registered on FestivalFinder.eu and have held at least one edition. Artists may be of any age and must have nationality or legal residence in an eligible country. Emerging is defined by novelty to programmers and audiences, not by age. FINANCES: minimum 80 percent of the grant goes to artist costs; own contributions of EUR 1,000 (Discovery) or EUR 2,000 (Springboard) are deducted from the grant; in-kind costs are capped at 10 percent. TIMELINE: evaluation in November 2026, results by email in December 2026, residencies between 1 January and 31 December 2027 (Intake Seminar 26 January 2027, Outtake Seminar 21 September 2027). Deadline 3 November 2026 at 23:59 CET.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) invites applications for two-year artistic research projects starting 20 September 2027. Two-year research projects provide 55% employment for the research assignment over 24 months (as a contractual project staff member) plus EUR 2,000 in operating funds (EUR 1,000 per project year). Proposals are developed in collaboration with the Academy's research groups and must align with, endorse, and further develop the mission and vision of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. PRECONDITIONS: the proposal must be in line with the Academy's mission/vision; the applicant must be legally employable by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp/AP Hogeschool on a contractual basis; and, at the time of application, the applicant must hold a Master's degree in Visual Arts awarded by a Belgian higher education institution (a non-Belgian degree is possible only if validated or recognised through the NARIC procedure, with proof included or a declared willingness to undergo it). PROCEDURE (two steps): STEP 1, apply via the Expression of Interest form sent to research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be before 3 November 2026, 12:00 noon (applicants informed no later than end November 2026 whether they may develop a full dossier); STEP 2, submit the full dossier via the two-year project application form before 1 February 2027, 12:00 noon. Evaluation by an independent reading committee aims to conclude in May 2027. Contact: research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be.
The Netherlands Embassy in Brussels runs several open calls per year subsidising Dutch-Belgian artistic and cultural projects in Belgium that strengthen the Netherlands' cultural profile and promote cooperation between the two countries. All artistic disciplines are eligible, with a focus on performing arts, visual arts, cultural heritage, creative industries and digital culture; the embassy welcomes innovative formats, cross-border exchange, and work on participation, inclusion, equal rights and sustainability. The subsidy (max EUR 5,000) only covers costs related to the Dutch participation in the project, such as travel and accommodation for Dutch participants, art transport, production, and communication for the Dutch segment. Projects must take place in Belgium (unless virtual collaborations) and be accessible to the public; personal development projects are not eligible. ELIGIBILITY: professional creators, organisations, institutions and legal entities in Belgium with a company registration number; Dutch artists typically take part via a Belgian partner or organiser. Apply via the embassy (netherlandsandyou.nl). DEADLINES: 3 November 2026, then 18 March 2027.
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP/EMARE) is a network of leading European media-art organisations offering fully funded two-month production residencies for artists working with digital media, including media art, bio art and robotic art. Each residency provides a EUR 4,000 grant to the applying artist (including subsistence), a EUR 4,000 project budget, host-provided accommodation, travel covered according to EU ceilings, and access to technical facilities and media labs; a collaborating artist receives an additional EUR 2,000 (EUR 6,000 total for a duo). Residencies take place at one of 15 host institutions across Austria, France, Slovakia, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Germany and Poland. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be EU residents or taxpayers in an EU member state, or residents/taxpayers of one of the eligible non-EU countries (Netherlands-based artists qualify). Undergraduate and Master's students are not eligible; PhD candidates and emerging artists of any age and academic background may apply. IMPORTANT: applicants must apply as a duo or collective, or propose a collaborative project, rather than as a purely solo applicant. The 2027 open call runs from 3 September 2026 to 6 November 2026 at 14:00 CET. Apply online at call.emare.eu. No application fee.
Realities in Transition (RiT2), a Creative Europe XR cooperation project, and host partner L.E.V. Festival invite artists with VR development experience to co-create a walkable VRChat world conceived as a voyage, with 5 to 7 environments, 3 to 5 avatars and optional NPC players; events, social worlds and theatre pieces are not wanted. Three individual artists are selected and work together with a creative technologist, each indicating the skills they bring (for example Unity development, 3D art, animation, sound art or narrative writing) with portfolio examples. WHAT YOU GET: an artist fee of EUR 10,000 gross per artist (EUR 6,000 on signing, EUR 2,000 after the Test Lab, EUR 2,000 at the end) and a production budget of up to EUR 15,000 gross for working hours or external assistance. The residency is fully online from January to June 2027, with a Test Lab at L.E.V. Gijon in May 2027 and a premiere at L.E.V. Matadero in September 2027; no travel or accommodation is included. APPLICATION: online form linked from the call page. DEADLINE (extended): 6 November 2026, 23:59 CEST.
Bellingcat, the open source investigations collective, is hiring a contractor AI engineer to build agentic systems that support its investigators. (Listed on Grant Desk as an exception to the no-jobs rule: a remote, paid, public-interest AI contract.) THE ROLE: build, test, deploy and monitor multi-agent workflows for open source investigations; develop agentic pipelines with human oversight, feedback loops and evaluation metrics; architect and maintain cloud infrastructure for hosting LLM harnesses and monitoring agents using token-as-a-service providers; develop MCP servers and data bridges connecting agents to open source research tools and databases; and create evaluation frameworks for the performance and reasoning of agentic pipelines. WHAT YOU GET: an annual fee of USD 80,000 to 93,000 for full-time work (part-time 20 hours/week also possible), on an initial 12-month contract, working remotely with some flexibility to work from other countries for a limited number of weeks per year. ELIGIBILITY: hands-on full-stack development experience including infrastructure maintenance and server-side data workflows; experience with agentic AI workflows and open-source harnesses; experience with human-in-the-loop design (approval checks, feedback loops); a collaborative record of working with non-technical colleagues on public interest technology; English proficiency; and a time zone overlapping with Europe. Experience with mission-driven organisations or open source / public interest tech is a plus. APPLICATION: via Google Form; Bellingcat asks that applications not be AI-generated (AI for grammar checks is fine). Review is rolling from 21 October and interviews may start before the close. DEADLINE: 8 November 2026.
The Sachsen-Anhalt state art foundation's twice-yearly round: work stipends for free artistic development (EUR 1,500 per month for 3 or 6 months, no output obligation) and project funding for artistic projects including publications, across all disciplines including media art. ELIGIBILITY (strict): freelance artists with primary residence in Sachsen-Anhalt. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026 for the next round (Normalverfahren and Sonderprogramme).
The Schaufler Lab at TUD Dresden University of Technology, a joint project with The Schaufler Foundation, invites applications for its six-month artist-in-residence at the interface of art and science for 2027. The theme of the Lab's third funding phase (2027 to 2030) is Energy Cultures in Transition: how forms of energy and energy transitions shape and are shaped by cultural practices, value systems, power relations, environmental relationships and imaginaries of the future. Residents work with the researchers of the Schaufler Kolleg graduate college and the wider university, with access to humanities, natural-science and engineering labs, and give lectures, talks and workshops, including a collaboration with the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Past residents include Quadrature, Mario Pfeifer, Rosa Barba and Esmeralda Conde Ruiz. ELIGIBILITY: internationally active artists or artist groups in media art, conceptual art, performance and related fields with completed international projects and exhibitions, an interest in exchange between artistic and scientific research, and proficient German or English; presence on site in Dresden is required by arrangement. Apply with a form, CV, portfolio, project proposal (up to 10,000 characters), project plan with potential TUD collaborators, a three-minute video and a recent letter of recommendation, as one PDF by email. The call is subject to final funding approval. Residency starts April 2027. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026.
Dance Ireland's residency programme at DanceHouse, Dublin, gives dance artists paid studio time to develop ideas for a new work, carry out artistic research or maintain a studio practice. It is aimed at artists and projects that are not otherwise funded. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 750 per week for the participating artist, subsidised studio space, an additional EUR 750 distance bursary for artists based more than 100 km from Dublin, and one dedicated Disabled Dance Artist residency with a EUR 750 bursary and access budget. ELIGIBILITY: Professional Members of Dance Ireland for the general residencies (allow at least a week to renew membership before the deadline); the Disabled Dance Artist residency does not require membership but is for Irish or Ireland-based artists. APPLICATION: read the guidelines PDF, then complete the Google Form linked from the opportunity page; late applications are not accepted. DEADLINE: Monday 9 November 2026 at 12 noon.
EXTRA, a Bordeaux association that publishes book-objects about space, invites proposals for a residency to create a book-object at the crossroads of architecture, publishing and pedagogy, hosted at Fabrique POLA in Bordeaux. Residents spend four weeks of research and creation between January and June 2027 and test the project with a public of their choosing (for example early childhood, school groups or older people). WHO: artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, graphic designers, authors and other professionals interested in questions of space; individual, duo or collective applications; no age limit and no stated geographic restriction, though the call is in French. The project must be unpublished and not already under a publishing contract, and applicants must be able to step away from other work during the residency periods. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 6,000 bursary in three instalments (one bursary per project, even for collectives), up to EUR 500 for materials and up to EUR 1,000 for travel on receipts (sustainable transport preferred), accommodation for up to two people, a workspace at Fabrique POLA, support from EXTRA for the research and public experiments, a presentation at the venue, and possible publication of the book-object under a separate contract with EXTRA. APPLICATION: free; see the call page for conditions, criteria and application guidance, or contact extra.editeurdespaces@gmail.com. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026.
The Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece's long-running digital arts festival, has opened its call for the 23rd edition in spring 2027 under the theme "It's Alive..." (Dr. Frankenstein's line, reread for an age when we feel the same relief when the Wi-Fi comes back). CATEGORIES: Video Art, Installations, Performances, Animation, Games, Web Art, AR/VR/XR, Music, Talks, Workshops and ADAF Kids. Up to 4 entries per category, one form per work; digital-image collections of up to 5 works can share one application. Videos max 30 minutes (online file up to 2 GB in .avi, .mpeg or .mov, or a Vimeo link). Unrealised works with a complete concept and design are eligible if they can be ready about two months before the festival. Curators share applications across categories, so a work may be accepted in a different one. Shortlisted artists are contacted by email; others are not notified. NO ENTRY FEE. No artist fee or prize is published. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, via the forms at 2027.adaf.gr. Questions: info@adaf.gr.
The second and final round of Culture Helps Solidarity Collaboration Grants, run by the European Cultural Foundation through its Culture of Solidarity Fund with Insha Osvita, VETERANKA Movement and zusa, and funded by Creative Europe. It supports cultural projects that improve access to culture and promote inclusion and mental well-being for internally displaced people and refugees from Ukraine, helping integrate them into host communities through intercultural dialogue, professional exchange and long-term solidarity; vulnerable groups and veterans are an emphasis. WHO: partnerships of at least two organisations, with at least one Ukrainian-led organisation (in Ukraine or in exile) and at least one based in a Creative Europe country; cross-border partnerships and Ukrainian-led partnerships with neighbouring Creative Europe countries are prioritised. A matchmaking board helps applicants find partners. WHAT YOU GET: up to EUR 20,000 for two-partner projects or up to EUR 30,000 for three or more partners; at least 15 projects will be awarded. APPLICATION: read the Call for Proposals PDF on the call page and apply via the Culture of Solidarity Fund grant platform. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 13:00 Amsterdam time (14:00 Kyiv).
Realities in Transition (RiT2), a Creative Europe XR cooperation project, and Beta Festival in Ireland invite artists, technologists, storytellers, engineers, hackers and designers to develop XR, interactive, multi-user work that explores technology through relationships between human, artificial and more-than-human intelligence, with a focus on decolonial thinking and interdependence. Three artists are selected, each paired with a creative technologist and working as a group. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 15,000 grant per artist for a six-month hybrid residency from March to August 2027, with an in-person period at Beta in May to June 2027, a Test Lab in June 2027 and a showcase at Beta Festival in November 2027. APPLICATION: online form linked from the call page; see the RiT residencies page for eligibility. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 23:59 CEST.
ART4MENTAL is a Creative Europe project (partners in Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Estonia, Sweden and Austria) selecting 20 artists to create immersive VR content and scenarios used in art-therapy and mental-health support sessions across Ukraine and the EU. Selected artists get professional training in VR technology and trauma-informed design, local bootcamps, a residency in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains, study visits to rehabilitation centres, ongoing collaboration with mental-health professionals, and present their work at European exhibitions and conferences, including an international exhibition in Poland. ELIGIBILITY: the official page says residents of EU countries and Ukraine with a proven artistic practice and full availability for all mandatory activities; the On the Move listing adds that at least 10 of the 20 places go to artists from Ukraine and at least one each to Czechia, Estonia, Sweden and Austria, so applicants from other EU countries are eligible but not prioritised. Two stages: online form with supporting documents, then an online interview; selected artists announced January 2027. DEADLINE: 11 November 2026 per On the Move (the official page only says November 2026; no time zone stated).
AIR-M Ebenböckhaus and the non-profit Salta art, in partnership with ERA Foundation, offer a residency for two contemporary visual artists from South America at the Ebenböckhaus in Munich-Pasing, Germany, from 7 July to 29 September 2027. Since 2022 the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich has collaborated with Salta art to extend the residency programme to South America; ERA Foundation's support funds the second position. WHAT YOU GET: a grant and accommodation contract of EUR 1,300 per month from the City of Munich, rent-free accommodation in a shared apartment with individual lockable rooms, three work and presentation rooms (52 m2) in the house, return tickets from South America (economy / 2nd class), a shared studio at Empfangshalle in the Museumsquartier, a EUR 600 research trip allowance and a MakerPlus membership at MakerSpace Munich (wood, metal, electronics, IoT, laser cutting, additive manufacturing, textile workshops). A mentoring initiative pairs each resident with a Munich-based curator for up to three meetings, a research trip is organised, and an Open Studio event closes the residency. A curator from South America will also live and work at the house for part of the period. ELIGIBILITY: professional visual artists (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, video, digital art, performance or interdisciplinary practices) born and based or residing in South America, over 18, not students, who pursue art as their main occupation and can demonstrate professional experience; former residents of Villa Waldberta or Ebenböckhaus are not eligible. A good level of spoken English is required and applications must be completed in English. APPLICATION: free, via Google Form with one PDF (max 10MB, 20 pages) containing personal information, one referee contact, a 200-word biography, CV (max 4 pages), letter of intent, practice description (max 500 words) and work samples. Selection is decided by the City of Munich on the recommendation of the Salta art jury (Amanda Carneiro, MASP; Chus Martinez; Anna Schneider, DAS MINSK); outcomes by end of December 2026. Note: the Ebenböckhaus is not barrier-free. DEADLINE: 15 November 2026, midnight CET.
The Arts Council of Ireland's Festivals Investment Scheme funds small to mid-scale arts festivals whose programmes engage local communities or communities of interest, across all artforms including multidisciplinary, digital and performance programmes. Round 2 of the 2027 scheme is for festivals later in 2027 (Round 1, which closed in May 2026, covered festivals from January to June 2027). WHO: organisations delivering an arts festival programme in the Republic of Ireland. WHAT YOU GET: a grant of up to EUR 45,000 towards the festival programme, in three bands by scale. APPLICATION: through the Arts Council online services portal; guidelines and budget templates are on the scheme page. Opened 20 October 2026. DEADLINE: 19 November 2026 at 17:30.
The Theatre Project Award supports specific artistic projects in theatre, enabling individual artists and organisations to bring their ideas to fruition and create excellent work, from script and concept development through to new creations, including devised, interdisciplinary and technology-led performance. WHO: individual theatre artists and theatre organisations based in Ireland. WHAT YOU GET: a project grant of up to EUR 26,000 in this round (Play Development and Theatre Creation scales). APPLICATION: through the Arts Council online services portal; read the 2027 guidelines on the award page first and contact theatre@artscouncil.ie with questions. Opened 20 October 2026. DEADLINE: 19 November 2026 at 17:30.
FOTODOKS, the Munich festival for contemporary documentary photography, invites existing lens-based, documentary-driven projects on the theme of care and its connections to politics, emotions and intimate relationships for its 13th edition in October 2027. Selected works are shown in a group exhibition and included in the festival catalogue and on the FOTODOKS website; the curatorial team also invites some artists directly. WHO: individuals, collectives and groups of all backgrounds, ages and genders; submissions in English or German. WHAT YOU GET: an artist fee of EUR 500 for a single artist, EUR 800 for a duo or up to EUR 1,200 for a collective depending on size; travel support of up to EUR 150 within Germany, EUR 300 within Europe or EUR 500 from outside Europe; accommodation during the 4-day opening week; and production of the work for the exhibition in agreement with FOTODOKS. APPLICATION: free, via the Picter submission page; questions to opencall@fotodoks.de. Results are announced in March 2027. DEADLINE: 20 November 2026.
Themed international residency: three artists, duos or collectives are selected for one of three four-month periods between February 2027 and January 2028 to work on the 2027 theme 'On Absence'. Each resident receives EUR 1,100 per month and a rent-free furnished studio apartment in central Weimar; the programme closes with a group exhibition the following year. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide, all ages and disciplines; currently enrolled students are excluded; applications in English or German. DEADLINE: 22 November 2026.
TRACES is a new art and science residency run by the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions (FDDM) with EPFL Valais-Wallis, Energypolis, the City of Sion and the Canton of Valais. The 2027 pilot embeds one visual artist for three months in Prof. Sascha Feldmann's Laboratory for Energy Materials at EPFL, which works on light-matter interactions and soft semiconductors for flexible solar cells, energy-efficient screens and emerging quantum technologies. The artist develops original work in dialogue with the lab around the energy transition and the materials of the future, with studio and production space, scientific mentoring and a public final presentation on 15 April 2027. ELIGIBILITY: confirmed, professional international visual artists aged 25 or over who finished their studies at least two years ago and have at least two years of professional practice; applications in English or French with a letter of intent (two A4 pages), portfolio and CV via the online form. Laureate selected 7 December 2026. DEADLINE: 22 November 2026, 23:59 Swiss time (CET).
A development lab for XR and new media projects at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival's industry section AGORA, for emerging storytellers working across film, digital media, new technologies and performing arts. Lead mentor: Vassiliki Khonsari (co-founder, iNK Stories). Up to five projects are selected. FORMAT: online preparation and project-enhancement workshop in mid-January 2027, then the lab in Thessaloniki on 6-11 March 2027 with industry meetings scheduled from professionals' requests and the AGORA team, plus online meetings on 12 March. ELIGIBILITY: teams of at least two creative members (creator-creator or creator-producer), any development stage; one lead can submit up to two projects; previously rejected projects only with substantial changes. Both core members must attend the January workshop and at least one must attend the full lab. Completed projects must credit the lab. APPLICATION: English online form (not editable after submission) plus one English PDF with logline, synopsis (max 2 pages), format and audience thoughts, team bios, financing plan if available, visual material and past work. Notification early January 2027. DEADLINE: 25 November 2026. Contact: Rafaela Karagianni.
The UNESCO City of Media Arts Office of Karlsruhe's Department of Cultural Affairs awards the dm-Award connecting worlds, with dm-drogerie markt as awarding partner, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe as curatorial partner and KME as organiser of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Light Festival. Under the motto PLAYGROUND, the call seeks projects that connect the digital space of the projection mappings on Karlsruhe Palace's facade with the analogue space of the Market Square, playfully activating public space. FORMAT: every project must have two elements: a projection mapping on the palace facade (2 to 5 minutes) and at least one satellite on the Market Square that also works independently of the projection and is publicly and freely accessible. Examples include interactive projections and game elements with audience participation, installations or media artworks relating to the projection, combinations of performance, concerts or actions with projection mapping, sculptural, 3D or immersive formats, new technologies, and collaborations between local and international players. The winner is realised in 2027 during the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE and the exhibition Media art is here, running four weeks between mid-August and mid-September 2027. WHO: artists worldwide, individually or as a collective. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 10,000 prize, up to EUR 20,000 net production funding (which must cover all production costs, including fees, equipment and the winners' travel), plus curatorial and technical support; technical requirements are set out in the Production Guidelines. APPLICATION: via the call page; questions to cityofmediaarts@kultur.karlsruhe.de. Application period 9 October to 25 November 2026, closing at 13:00 CET.
The Academie de France a Madrid at the Casa de Velazquez offers 12 one-year residencies for 2027-2028 to young graduates and established artists developing a creative project in the Iberian Peninsula. Applicants declare one main discipline: drawing, printmaking, sculpture, painting, architecture, music composition, choreography, photography, or film and video (multidisciplinary development during the year is welcome). REQUIREMENTS: over 18; a higher arts diploma or a body of work judged by the committee; good French (application and interview in French); individual applications only (no collectives); at most three applications per lifetime. STATUS: EU/Schengen nationals must show affiliation to an artist/author or self-employed scheme; non-EU applicants need a French residence permit allowing work (to join URSSAF artists/authors) or a Schengen residence and work permit from another EU state plus artist-author status there, covering the whole residency. APPLICATION: online portal with a project of up to 5,000 characters in French, expectations and career fit (600 characters each), CV in French (max 3 pages), portfolio (A3 landscape PDF, max 10 pages), up to two video links of max 10 minutes, audio files (composers must include a chamber or orchestral work with score), up to 10 photos and up to two recommendation letters. SELECTION: pre-selection the week of 8 March 2027, interviews in French in Paris the week of 5 April 2027, results mid-April 2027. Residents must live at the Casa outside closure periods and take part in its exhibitions and concerts. DEADLINE: 27 November 2026, 13:00 Madrid time. Questions: candidatures-cvz@casadevelazquez.org.
DOMA Initiatives, in partnership with the British Council, nominates one Malaysia-based fellow for the British Council Venice Fellowship Programme at the 2027 Venice Biennale (62nd International Art Exhibition). The fellow spends one month in Venice: half the time as an exhibition ambassador at the British Pavilion (stewarding, engaging visitors, supporting daily gallery operations) and half on independent research or a creative or architectural project inspired by Venice, the Pavilion and the Biennale themes. Fellows complete 15 hours of online training in March-April 2027 and, on return, run a sharing session, workshop or exhibition for DOMA Initiatives. ELIGIBILITY: active early-career professionals in architecture or related creative fields, based in Malaysia, with a portfolio integrating research or creative practice with the themes of La Biennale di Venezia; strong spoken and written English; must also meet the British Council criteria in the Venice Fellowship Programme Guidance Notes 2027. HOW TO APPLY: complete the application form (Google Doc linked from the call page) and email it with a CV and portfolio/research proposal to the selection committee. Shortlisting and interviews 30 November to 3 December 2026; nomination to the British Council 4 December 2026; final selection announced January 2027. Contact: Veronica Ng, DOMA Initiatives Coordinator, veronican@sunway.edu.my. DEADLINE: 27 November 2026, 12:00 noon MYT.
First edition of an international competition for short live performances of around fifteen minutes in dance and physical theatre, run by Music & Movie ETS within the InterAgendo project. Works must carry an ethical, civic or social theme. Six companies are selected to perform in Sassari on 6-8 May 2027 in front of a National Jury, a Schools and Community Jury and a Territorial Jury. MONEY: each selected company receives a guaranteed gross fee of EUR 500 (solo), EUR 700 (duo) or EUR 900 (three or more performers) plus three nights' accommodation; the Best Work Award is EUR 1,000 and the Reflections Award EUR 400. Application is free; only the six selected companies pay a EUR 50 security deposit, refunded in full at the end of the festival. Similar in format to Teatri Riflessi in Sicily. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026, 23:59 CET.
The Kaete Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University invites applications for up to twelve fellowships for its fourth year, October 2027 to September 2028. CURE welcomes scholars from cultural studies, the humanities and the social sciences whose work examines questions of reparation and irreparability; artists holding a doctorate and experienced in academic collaboration may also apply. ANNUAL THEME: 'Things', foregrounding the material dimension of reparation: objects, artefacts and material environments through which practices such as repair, mending and reuse acquire cultural and political significance. Proposals must align with at least one of the Centre's three thematic fields (history, experience or nature) and address the annual theme. CONDITIONS: fellowships run six to twelve months from 1 October 2027; fellows on unpaid leave receive approximately EUR 6,100 to 7,200 per month before taxes depending on qualifications, or the home institution is reimbursed for replacement teaching; one round trip to Saarbruecken is reimbursed under the Saarland Travel Expense Act; a fully equipped individual workspace is provided and an apartment can be arranged for around EUR 1,250 per month; fellows must live in Saarbruecken and take part in the Centre's international, interdisciplinary research community. ELIGIBILITY: a completed PhD (submitted and defended) by the deadline; retired persons and Saarland University staff are not eligible. HOW TO APPLY: via the online form with a one-page motivation letter, CV (max 3 pages), list of publications, and a five-page project description with bibliography, in English, German or French. Notification by 30 April 2027. Deadline 30 November 2026.
Prototype Fund supports the development of socially relevant open-source software, offering low-threshold funding and coaching to individual developers and small teams. ELIGIBILITY: individual developers or teams of up to four; funded members must reside in the EU and the lead entity must be based in Germany. Application window 1 October to 30 November 2026. Apply via the Prototype Fund application page.
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) invites applications for two Leibniz Summer Fellowships in German and/or European (including Eastern European) history in the twentieth century. Fellows spend two consecutive months between April and October 2027 in Potsdam or Berlin pursuing independent research while taking part in departmental activities and presenting work in ZZF's research seminar; the institute's five research departments include Contemporary History in the Age of Media and Information Society. GRANT: EUR 3,000 per month for two months, with office space, computer facilities and specialist library resources. ELIGIBILITY: international scholars holding a doctorate and residing outside Germany at the time of application. HOW: send a letter of interest, CV, publication list and a research proposal of up to 1,500 words as a single PDF to fellowships@zzf-potsdam.de. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026.
To mark the 40th anniversary of ERASMUS in 2027, the European Cultural Foundation is opening its historical archives for a Creative Research Fellowship: one professional creative practitioner will research ECF's lesser-known role in shaping the ERASMUS student mobility programme (from the European Institute of Education and the Office for Cooperation in Education to the ERASMUS Bureau, which ran the scheme until 1994) and translate that history into a public-facing artwork about what European belonging feels like and what the next ERASMUS could be. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 10,000 grant for travel, living costs and production; a research residency at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence during the first trimester of 2027; and presentation of the finished work in Brussels in September 2027, in partnership with the House of European History. WHO: creative practitioners residing in a Council of Europe member state with a track record of research-based work for museum contexts. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 17:00 CET. The full call is linked from ECF's open calls and social channels; a dedicated call page could not be located at the time of adding.
make-a-thek, a Horizon Europe project (grant No. 101177660) coordinated by Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, connects creative spaces, public libraries and makers across Europe and beyond to share skills in circular fashion, traditional crafts and technology. Its open call runs two tracks. MOBILITY SCHEME (Track A): experienced practitioners (make-a-thek Experts) travel to an EU pilot location (Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Helsinki, Kranj, Milan, Opole, Reykjavik, Kyiv or Zaporizhzhia) to deliver a workshop, talk or hands-on training, with a EUR 1,000 stipend to support expenses. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME (Track B): learners, practitioners, makers, craftspeople and librarians travel to a 2-day in-person group meet-up (Cohort 1 in Barcelona between end of November and start of December 2026; Cohort 2 in Berlin in May 2027), then organise a local knowledge-sharing activity, with a EUR 850 stipend. Up to 12 participants per track annually. ELIGIBILITY: legal residents of EU member states, Horizon Europe associated countries, or the international pilot countries Ghana, South Africa, Indonesia, the Philippines and Chile; proposals must align with at least one focus area: Circular Fashion, Digitising Traditional Crafts, or Open Technologies. HOW TO APPLY: via the Typeform linked from the open call page. The early-bird round closed 15 September 2026; late applications are accepted until 1 December 2026, and the next call runs 1 February to 31 March 2027. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026.
Research and creation studio residencies in Brussels for artists working in the performing arts in the broad sense: dance, performance, theatre and crossovers with other disciplines (projects that are purely circus, visual art, music or for young audiences are excluded). WHAT YOU GET: one to two weeks of free studio space tailored to your project, a EUR 750 flat fee per selected project for travel and lunch, overnight guesthouse accommodation for international artists subject to availability, basic technical equipment in some studios, and an optional moment to share work with other residents. ELIGIBILITY: open to Belgian and international artists and collectives at any career stage. Applications can be written or submitted as audio or video, in Dutch, French or English. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 for residencies between August and December 2027; selections announced end of February 2027.
The Mensch Maschine VISIT Residency Program is an annual fellowship offering four fully funded fellowships to artists from around the world, run by the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) with VISIT, the artist-in-residence programme of the E.ON Foundation, E-WERK Luckenwalde and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw). The 2027 edition particularly encourages projects at the intersection of art, energy and ecology exploring the theme ENERGY GHOSTS: the unseen dimensions of energy approached through mythology, cosmology or speculative fiction, the invisible infrastructures, histories and residues that haunt contemporary life, and energy as an ecological, political or spiritual force. Proposals are welcome from visual art, performance, film, installation, sound, writing and new media. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 20,000 per fellow for artist fees and production costs of a new project (research and development, travel, material and presentation costs); three fellows receive studio space and accommodation at E-WERK Luckenwalde (a former power station about 40 minutes south of Berlin), one is accommodated by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The three-month residency runs roughly September to November 2027 with on-site presence of at least 75% required, a retreat at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in September 2027, events across the three venues, and a closing symposium in October 2027 at the Akademie der Künste where fellows show work in progress alongside the 2026 cohort. JURY: Nolan Oswald Dennis; Chus Martinez (Institute Art Gender Nature, TBA21); Sarah Johanna Theurer (Fondation Beyeler); Anh-Linh Ngo (Akademie der Künste); and Tiara Roxanne. APPLICATION: via the VISIT portal at visit-energy.com/bewerben. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 23:59 CET.
The Flemish Arts Decree (Kunstendecreet) structural funding round for 2028-2032 is open. Werkingssubsidies are the backbone funding of the Flemish arts field: five-year operating grants for arts organisations, including festivals, production houses, arts centres, ensembles and platforms, covering continuous operation rather than single projects. WHO: professional arts organisations with a non-commercial character, established in Flanders or Brussels and addressing the Flemish community, active in visual, audiovisual and photographic arts, performing arts, music, architecture and design, or transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral arts. Your operation must fulfil one or more of five functions: development, production, presentation, participation and reflection. In this round every organisation applies for one policy period only; organisations currently funded for two periods must still submit a new plan. A project subsidy cannot be combined with a werkingssubsidie, and any running project subsidy must end by 31 December 2027. WHAT YOU GET: an annual operating grant for five years, with at least 50 percent of the grant to be spent on paying staff and artists; organisations choosing production or presentation functions need at least 20 percent own income. APPLICATION: via the KIOSK web application, using the official beleidsplan (policy plan) template and cijferbijlage (financial appendix). The assessment handbook (draaiboek) is published by 1 November 2026; Kunstenpunt runs advice sessions and a checklist for first-time applicants. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026.
Hordaland Kunstsenter, founded in 1976 as Norway's first artist-run art centre, invites artists based in the Nordic and Baltic countries to apply for its 2027/2028 residency programme in central Bergen, supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture. The centre does not privilege any medium and is especially interested in practices that move between disciplines, including exhibition-making, performance, sound, publishing, moving image, socially engaged and research-based or discursive work. WHO: artists with a permanent address in Sapmi, Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Aland, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania (citizenship not required); artists based in Norway, full-time students and artistic PhD candidates are not eligible; visa costs are the resident's own. WHAT YOU GET: a NOK 30,000 stipend for the full-time two-month residency, a furnished one-bedroom self-catering apartment near the centre, up to EUR 500 travel support booked by the residency coordinator, a dedicated desk and workspace, access to the project room, and connections to studios, specialist workspaces and production networks in Bergen. Residents give a public presentation or talk during their stay. APPLICATION: fill in the Google form on the call page and email one PDF (CV, motivation letter on intentions and use of time, up to 5 slides of recent work) to residency@kunstsenter.no; questions to scott@kunstsenter.no. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026.
The MEDIA Slate Development call (CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVSLATE) funds established European independent production companies to develop a slate of audiovisual works with cross-border potential: fiction, animation, creative documentary and immersive projects. WHO: a single applicant only, an independent European production company with a recent international track record; a company can coordinate only one of Slate Development, Co-Development, mini-slate or Video Games and Immersive Content Development in the same year. WHAT YOU GET: a slate grant of EUR 90,000 to EUR 510,000, built from fixed lump sums per project type, from a total budget of EUR 22,374,320. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
Berlin's Wiederaufnahmefoerderung funds revivals of existing independent-scene productions, covering rehearsals and performances for solo and group projects across all performing art forms: theatre, dance, performance, music theatre and music. WHO: professional artists and independent groups based in Berlin (not enrolled students), and institutions working mainly with the Berlin independent scene. The original production must have been staged successfully in Berlin (music productions may have premiered elsewhere) and must previously have received Berlin Senate funding; work on the revival must not have started, and the same revival cannot already be funded by another Berlin or Hauptstadtkulturfonds programme. Minimum performance targets apply: generally four performances for theatre and dance, two for music and music theatre. WHAT YOU GET: up to EUR 30,000 per project for the March to December 2027 period. APPLICATION: electronically via the Berlin service portal with all attachments; read the current Infoblatt and use the sample financing plan. ACCESS (Performing Arts Programm Berlin) offers help with the online application. DEADLINE: 2 December 2026 at 14:00.
Annual award from the Lillias Mitchell Trust recognising craft and visual artists connected to Ireland. AWARDS: EUR 10,000 each to two winners, one in Visual Art and one in Craft + Applied Art (total fund usually around EUR 30,000); shortlisted artists also receive a smaller financial award, amount to be confirmed. ELIGIBILITY: craft and visual artists living and working on the island of Ireland, and Irish-born artists working overseas; any career stage with demonstrated artistic merit; full-time students are normally not considered; previous main-award winners cannot reapply. APPLICATION: online, no fee. TIMELINE: applications open 12:00 noon on 16 October 2026. DEADLINE: 11 December 2026, 17:00.
Go Short, the international short film festival in Nijmegen, is open for entries for its 19th edition (6 to 11 April 2027). A small, approachable Dutch festival that programmes fiction, documentary, animation and experimental shorts. COMPETITIONS: the European Competition (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental), the Dutch Competition, and the New Arrivals Competition for European film school projects, plus a Music Video Competition and a separate strand for video games, VR/XR, performances and installations, which makes it a natural target for expanded-media and installation-based video work. DEADLINES AND FEES: early bird 15 September 2026 (EUR 12.50 per film; EUR 8 per installation/VR/game project), regular 15 November (EUR 15 / EUR 10), late 15 December 2026 (EUR 20 / EUR 12); music videos EUR 7.50 flat. Awards include Best European Short, Best Dutch Short, the New Arrivals Award and an Audience Award. Read the festival regulations for length and completion date requirements before submitting.
The European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrueck invites submissions for its 2027 edition in three sections: Film (experimental films of all lengths and any theme), Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media art works) and Expanded (performances, live events or workshops). WHAT YOU GET: all films selected for the International Selection are equal winners of the EMAF Award with EUR 400 prize money each; films in the Features section (over 60 minutes) receive a EUR 250 screening fee; curated programmes pay EUR 80-250 depending on length; installations and expanded projects receive a EUR 500 fee with production costs paid by the festival. Selected artists are invited to the festival with free accreditation, three hotel nights (potentially longer if setting up is required) and a contribution to travel costs. RULES: maximum 2 works per artist; only works completed in 2026 or 2027 are eligible; no premiere status required; works entered at previous editions will not be reconsidered. Films up to 60 minutes are viewed for the International Selection, films over 60 minutes for Features. Installation entries should relate to the 2027 festival theme of the archive (as an instrument of knowledge production, a site of critical intervention and a space for alternative visions of the future); Installation and Expanded entries must include a comprehensive description, tech rider, cost calculation and visual materials. Non-English-language works must have English subtitles for the selection screening. Submit digitally via the EMAF registration portal (no DVDs or physical media). Selection decisions are emailed from mid-March 2027. DEADLINE: the call closes as soon as 2,200 entries have been received, or at the latest on 15 December 2026, so submit early. No entry fee.
Germany's flagship residency awards for visual artists, architects, writers and composers, administered by the Kulturstiftung der Laender for the federal government. One application window covers the Rome Prize at Villa Massimo (10 months, EUR 3,000/month, international visibility expected), Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano (3 months, EUR 3,000/month), the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice (3 months, EUR 1,534/month) and a 6-month Paris residency (approx. EUR 1,500/month). Accommodation and studio are provided everywhere. ELIGIBILITY: German citizenship, or primary residence and artistic practice in Germany. Application window 1 October to 15 December 2026 for residencies in 2028, via auslandsstipendien-von-bund-und-laendern.de. DEADLINE: 15 December 2026, 23:59.
One of the best-known international artist residencies: established artists live and work in Berlin for a year (six months for film) and become part of the city's cultural scene. Applications are open in literature, music and sound, and film; visual arts fellows are nominated by a jury and cannot apply. ELIGIBILITY: established artists with their own voice and standing, no upper age limit; students and recent graduates are not eligible (doctoral students are). German nationals and artists residing primarily in Germany are excluded, with narrow exceptions for German dual nationals abroad and recent arrivals. Alumni cannot reapply. Window opened 19 October 2026; deadline 15 December 2026, 23:59 CET.
The Ortaklasa programme, run by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) with Culture Action Europe under EU funding, supports cultural cooperation projects between Turkiye and Europe that rethink cultural policies from the local level up to international cooperation, support cultural and artistic production, and develop fair cooperation. STRUCTURE: applications come from a four-institution partnership consisting of a culture-oriented CSO based in Turkiye as lead applicant, a culture-oriented CSO based in an EU member state or candidate country (Albania, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo or Serbia) as partner, and one municipality from Turkiye plus one municipality from an EU member state or candidate country (the same list plus Bosnia and Herzegovina) as associates. FUNDING: total budget EUR 890,000; grants cover between 70 and 95 percent of total eligible costs. TIMELINE: call opened 17 September 2026; questions accepted until 6 December 2026 via ortaklasa.hibeler@iksv.org; deadline 18 December 2026, 17:00 UTC+3; results 16 March 2027; indicative project start 1 April 2027. APPLICATION: through the online portal; see the Guideline for Grant Applications for eligibility details and evaluation criteria.
France Culture and LaScam offer two EUR 5,000 grants (Brouillon d'un reve) to write a first creative audio documentary in the spirit of L'Experience, France Culture's strand of auteur sound documentaries. The target format is a 57'30 documentary for broadcast or a native podcast series with variable episode length. WHO: authors writing their first creative audio documentary, in French; reportage, news programmes and more classic documentaries are excluded. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 5,000 to fund the writing; production and inclusion in France Culture's output are decided separately afterwards by its Fictions et Creation department. APPLICATION: email bourses.documentaires@radiofrance.com with a 5-line summary (max 500 characters), the intended duration, a two-page PDF (statement of intent plus a note on the sound design), names, detailed CV and contact details, optional links to earlier work, and an IBAN. The committee meets in mid-January 2027 and results are announced by 5 February 2027. Submission window: 20 October 2026, 08:00 to 20 December 2026, 23:59 (Paris time).
NewImages Festival, the Paris festival for XR and immersive creation, opens three competitions for its 2027 edition. XR COMPETITION: works completed in 2026 or 2027 in VR, AR, mixed reality, narrative video games and hybrid performances; Grand Prize EUR 6,000, Impact Award EUR 3,000; fee EUR 75 Early Bird / EUR 100 Last Call (individual talents EUR 45 / EUR 60). FULLDOME COMPETITION: native fulldome (360-degree projection) works completed after 2023; Dome Award EUR 3,000; same fees as the XR Competition. VIRTUAL WORLDS COMPETITION: social VR platforms, independent worlds, multiplayer art spaces and interactive installations in virtual environments; Virtual Worlds Award EUR 3,000; free to enter. No premiere status required for any competition. Selected works receive festival presentation, two accreditations and industry visibility. Separate Industry Days calls (XR Development Market with a EUR 1,000 Best Project Award, Immersive Art Fair, XR Partners, Industry Sessions) run on the same dates. DEADLINES: Early Bird 10 December 2026, Last Call 22 December 2026.
The MEDIA strand's Innovative Tools and Business Models call (CREA-MEDIA-2027-INNOVBUSMOD) funds tools and business models that strengthen the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and video games industries. WHAT IT FUNDS: tools for subtitling, accessibility, discoverability and recommendation; automated rights management and data analytics; business models linking festivals, cinemas and VOD; new modes of production, financing or distribution using AI, big data, blockchain, virtual worlds or NFTs; and greening the audiovisual and video games industry. WHO: a single organisation or a consortium of two or more, established in a MEDIA country; individuals cannot apply. WHAT YOU GET: grants at an 80 percent funding rate from a total budget of EUR 14,000,000. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal. DEADLINE: 14 January 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
Grant for a single artist publication, analog or digital formats included, by freelance visual artists or artist duos; media artists are eligible. The call opened 1 October 2026. FUNDING: up to EUR 24,000 per project with at least 10% own contribution (third-party funds allowed). ELIGIBILITY: primary residence in Germany; not enrolled as a student; artists may apply to only one KUNSTFONDS programme per year. NOTE: the sibling KUNSTFONDS_Stipendium (EUR 18,000 for 6 months) is expected to open mid-December 2026 with the same deadline. DEADLINE: 15 January 2027, 24:00.
HIIG's Impact AI Fellowship invites people interested in measuring the effects of AI on society and the environment to assess an existing, operational AI application and take lead authorship of a published case report. Applicants do not need their own case; HIIG helps match fellows with cases, and proposed cases must be deployed applications rather than prototypes or research ideas. WHO: holders of a master's degree; field experience is an advantage but an academic track record is not required. FORMAT: ten weeks from 16 August to 22 October 2027, with mandatory in-person weeks in Berlin (16-20 August and 4-8 October 2027), an independent research phase that can be done remotely, regular online check-ins, and a mandatory online preparatory session on 11 May 2027. WHAT YOU GET: a fixed EUR 5,000 stipend and case-by-case partial support for in-person costs; health insurance, visa and meals are the fellow's responsibility. APPLICATION: online form with one combined file (CV up to 4 pages, motivation letter up to 2 pages, optional project description up to 2 pages). Info sessions on 10 November 2026 (10:00) and 17 November 2026 (15:00). DEADLINE: 15 January 2027.
The 73rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (27 April to 2 May 2027), one of the oldest and most influential short film festivals, opens its call for films across five competitions: International (max 35 minutes, produced outside Germany, German festival premiere required), German (max 45 minutes, produced in Germany, no premiere requirement), NRW (max 45 minutes, produced or co-produced in North Rhine-Westphalia), International Children's and Youth Film, and the MuVi Award for music videos produced in Germany (max 15 minutes). ELIGIBILITY: works produced after 1 January 2026; screening formats 35mm, 16mm, Super 8 and DCP (MuVi: DCP). PRIZES: from the EUR 8,000 Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen and EUR 4,000 Principal Prize through German, NRW, children's/youth, FIPRESCI, Ecumenical and audience prizes, awarded to the directors, plus European Film Awards and ECFA nominations. FEES: the first five submissions per submitter are free of charge; from the sixth, a EUR 20 handling fee per film applies. HOW TO SUBMIT: online entry form with preview link via kurzfilmtage.filmchief.com; selection results announced mid-March 2027. DEADLINE: 18 January 2027 for all competitions (17:00 UTC per the listing), except the MuVi Award: 22 February 2027. No extensions.
The organisation-side strand of Culture Moves Europe, the EU's flagship mobility scheme for artists and cultural professionals, funds organisations to host artists in residence. WHO: newly or well-established legal entities registered and based in a Creative Europe country and active in architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts or visual arts, with capacity to host one to five residents from other Creative Europe countries. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 50 per day per resident for the host, plus accessibility support of EUR 375, 675 or 1,200; residents receive EUR 30 per day, a travel allowance of EUR 400 or EUR 800 and optional top-ups (green travel, overseas regions, family, visa). PROCESS: apply in English via the Goethe Application Portal, registering as Organisation/Enterprise and selecting the 2026-2027 call for residency hosts; results by 9 March 2027, then hosts select residents and submit residency info cards between 9 March and 31 July 2027, with residencies starting from 12 April 2027. The call opened 15 October 2026. DEADLINE: 18 January 2027.
Creative Europe's Media Literacy call (CREA-CROSS-2027-MEDIALITERACY) funds cross-border actions that build media literacy and resilience to disinformation, with attention to countries facing particular media literacy challenges. WHO: consortia of at least three entities from three eligible Creative Europe countries; individuals cannot apply. WHAT YOU GET: up to EUR 500,000 per project at a 70 percent funding rate, from a total budget of EUR 3,500,000. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal. DEADLINE: 20 January 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
Winter round of Germany's flagship open, non-thematic federal project line, one of the largest European funders that will back a festival, exhibition programme or multi-partner convening run by an organisation rather than an individual artist. It funds large innovative projects across all artistic fields, explicitly including New Media alongside visual and performing arts, music, film, photography and architecture. There is no published maximum, but the EUR 50,000 minimum total project cost sets the scale, and at least 20 percent co-financing is mandatory. This round closes 31 January 2027 at 12:00 CET, with decisions at the external jury meeting in May 2027; no project may start before its jury date, so plan four to six months of lead time. Non-German organisations are genuinely eligible, which is unusual at this scale, provided the project is visible in Germany and has an international dimension. Two practical barriers: the application form must be completed in German, and project communications must include a German-language version.
The Basisfoerderung is Berlin's two-year structural line for the independent performing arts scene, giving groups and solo artists without a production venue planning security beyond single projects. WHO: professional, privately organised groups and individual artists in dance, performing and performative arts (all genres) with their main working base in Berlin, a visible public presence in the Berlin scene and a demonstrated artistic identity; a group should show at least two years of continuous, independent work in the applying line-up. Legal entities and natural persons can apply. CONDITIONS: at least one new production in Berlin per funding year (revivals only in exceptional cases); if performance costs are requested, box-office income must appear in the financing plan. WHAT IT FUNDS: production-related personnel and material costs, Berlin performance costs, general costs for developing and securing working structures, and costs for accessible production. Jury criteria include continuity and development of previous work, a convincing longer-term artistic perspective, quality of the planned productions, own and third-party income, networking and relevance to Berlin's cultural infrastructure. APPLICATION: online via the Berlin funding portal (fms.verwalt-berlin.de) with the official two-year financing plan; the 2028-2029 Infoblatt is published in December 2026, the current sheet covers 2026-27. ACCESS (Performing Arts Programm Berlin) helps with online applications. DEADLINE: 31 January 2027, 24:00 (cut-off deadline, no late submissions).
The Konzeptfoerderung is the longest structural funding line Berlin offers independent performing arts groups and individual artists who have no venue of their own: four years of funding for an artistic concept rather than single productions. WHO: professional, privately organised groups and individual artists in dance, performing and performative arts (all genres) whose work has shown a distinct artistic character over several years, has met with interest from audiences and critics, and who have their main working base in Berlin. CONDITIONS: at least one new production in Berlin per funding year; revivals only in exceptional cases. WHAT IT FUNDS: production-related personnel and material costs, performance costs, and general costs needed to develop and secure the artistic work that cannot be assigned to individual productions. APPLICATION: online via the Berlin funding portal (fms.verwalt-berlin.de) with the official four-year sample financing plan; read the Konzeptfoerderung information sheet and the minimum-fee recommendations first. The 2028-2031 call documents are published in December 2026. ACCESS (Performing Arts Programm Berlin) offers help with online applications. DEADLINE: 31 January 2027 (end of day; cut-off deadline).
The MEDIA strand's annual development scheme for video games and immersive content (call CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVVGIM) funds the pre-production of interactive narrative works with original content and quality gameplay intended for commercial release on PC, console, mobile or XR platforms. WHAT IT FUNDS: concept and prototype development up to a first playable, vertical slice, alpha or demo; production-phase work is excluded, as are puzzle, sports, racing, quiz and party genres. WHO: European video game production companies, XR studios and audiovisual production companies whose main activity is game or software development or audiovisual production, established in a country fully participating in MEDIA and majority-owned by nationals of such countries. Publishers and natural persons cannot apply. The coordinator must have produced or developed a game or immersive experience commercially distributed between 1 January 2024 and the deadline, evidenced by a sales report (work-for-hire and Early Access titles do not count), and must hold the majority of rights. WHAT YOU GET: a lump sum of up to EUR 200,000 (60 percent of the estimated budget) from a EUR 13.5 million pot. APPLICATION: single stage via the EU Funding and Tenders Portal. DEADLINE: 2 February 2027 at 17:00 Brussels time.
Creative Europe's Journalism Partnerships call (CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART) has two topics supporting the news media sector. COLLABORATIONS funds cross-border collaboration and business transformation among news media organisations; consortia need at least three independent entities from three eligible countries. PLURALISM supports journalism sectors of public interest (for example local and regional media, investigative or community journalism), with at least 60 percent of the grant going to that sector, including through re-granting of up to EUR 60,000 per third party; applicants can be single organisations or consortia, with activities in at least four EU Member States. WHAT YOU GET: up to EUR 2,000,000 per Collaborations project (80 percent funding) or up to EUR 2,500,000 per Pluralism project (90 percent funding), from EUR 7,000,000 per topic. Individuals cannot apply. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal (topics CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS and -PLURALISM). DEADLINE: 4 February 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
The EU's main remembrance funding line, and emphatically not Holocaust-only: the 2026-27 call (covering both years; there is no separate 2027 call) funds projects across four topics: 1) remembering democratic transitions and the (re)building of democratic institutions; 2) remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people; 3) remembrance of the Holocaust, acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, with priorities on Roma victims and on LGBTIQ+ and other victims; 4) the legacy of colonialism, slavery and migration in contemporary multicultural European societies. Previous rounds funded exhibitions, digital archives, testimony projects, memorial education and artistic memory work. ELIGIBILITY: lead applicant must be a non-profit legal entity (public or private) or international organisation established in an EU Member State or CERV-associated country; for-profits only as co-applicants alongside public or non-profit partners; each application addresses exactly one topic. TIMELINE: call opens 21 October 2026; deadline 24 February 2027 at 17:00 CET, via the EU Funding and Tenders Portal.
Pro Helvetia's Game Design Emerging Talents pre-production grant supports early-career game designers in developing playable prototypes for digital games. Emerging Talents are game developers or studios whose game-design education or company foundation dates back less than seven years. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. At least 50 percent of participants must be Swiss citizens or permanent residents whose place of work is in Switzerland. AMOUNT: up to CHF 20,000, plus possible additional coaching. Deadlines twice a year: 1 March (23:59 CET) and 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Pro Helvetia's Game Design Emerging Talents production grant funds the production of digital games based on advanced prototypes or vertical slices. Emerging Talents are studios whose game-design education or company foundation dates back less than seven years. Applicants must be legal entities (sole proprietorships accepted if willing to convert). ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. At least 50 percent of participants must be Swiss citizens or permanent residents whose place of work is in Switzerland. AMOUNT: up to CHF 50,000, requiring a matching grant of equal value from own or third-party funding. Deadlines twice a year: 1 March (23:59 CET) and 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Pro Helvetia's Game Design Emerging Talents post-production grant funds the dissemination and marketing of advanced game-design projects. Emerging Talents are studios whose game-design education or company foundation dates back less than seven years. Applicants must be legal entities (sole proprietorships accepted if willing to convert). ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. At least 50 percent of participants must be Swiss citizens or permanent residents whose place of work is in Switzerland. AMOUNT: up to CHF 20,000, plus potential individual coaching. Deadlines twice a year: 1 March (23:59 CET) and 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Flanders Arts Institute and the Kooperativa network offer fifteen mobility grants for Flanders-based artists and arts professionals in the visual arts, performing arts, music and sound to immerse themselves in the South-Eastern European arts sector. Participants spend 3 to 5 days job shadowing at one organisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia or Slovenia, with mobility actions between 1 October 2026 and 30 June 2027. WHAT YOU GET: travel costs, accommodation and per diems per Erasmus+ formulas, plus up to EUR 300 for the host to cover any costs they might incur. ELIGIBILITY: artists and arts professionals based in Flanders, Belgium. APPLICATION: two steps; first email ward@kunsten.be with an outline of the project status, then submit a letter of intent from the host, visit planning, motivation and a description of the reporting format. Applications are reviewed in monthly cycles (8 September, 8 October, 9 November, 8 December 2026; 15 January, 8 February, 8 March 2027) and are accepted until 1 March 2027. AFTERWARDS: participants share their experience through a written report, video, talk or recording on an online platform.
The MEDIA Co-Development call (CREA-MEDIA-2027-CODEV) supports European independent production companies developing a work together: feature films, shorts, series, creative documentaries and narrative VR or immersive projects intended for cross-border audiences. WHO: consortia of at least two independent European production companies from two MEDIA countries; the coordinator needs a recent international production track record (since 2020). A company can coordinate only one of CODEV, Slate Development, mini-slate or Video Games and Immersive Content Development in the same year. WHAT YOU GET: a lump-sum grant at a 70 percent funding rate of up to EUR 120,000 for two partners plus EUR 60,000 per extra partner, or up to EUR 200,000 plus EUR 100,000 per extra partner for drama series budgeted at EUR 20 million or more; total budget EUR 12,500,000. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal. DEADLINE: 2 March 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
Development bursaries for individual professional artists under the Flemish Arts Decree: free development time with no output obligation, across all disciplines of the professional arts including media/digital art and sound. Two strands: opkomend talent (EUR 7,500, one year) and bewezen talent (EUR 12,000 per year for one, two or three years). Two windows a year, closing 15 September and 15 March. ELIGIBILITY: artists connected to the Flemish Community, in practice living and/or working in Flanders or Brussels. DEADLINE: 15 March 2027 for the next round.
Regional residency programme pairing an artist with an Ile-de-France venue for a creation residency in visual, digital or urban arts. The artist receives a bourse of EUR 2,400 gross per month for 2 to 10 months, and the venue receives support for its mediation programme around the residency. ELIGIBILITY: professional artists affiliated to the French artist social-security regime (in practice, artists working in France), applying jointly with the host venue. The May 2026 session is closed. DEADLINE: 18 March 2027 for the next session.
First edition of a competitive film festival in Arboga, Sweden, run by production and distribution company Dorobantu Film & Television, dedicated to the concept of art for art's sake: original, innovative films whose main goal is creative contribution rather than commercial entertainment. AWARDS: Great Ars Award for Best Film (SEK 4,000 plus trophy); Best Feature Film and Best Short Film (SEK 2,000 plus diploma each); cash prizes split equally between director and producer and paid within six months after the festival. Official diplomas for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Debut Film and a Special Award for Outstanding Creation across both sections. DISTRIBUTION: every submitted film, not only selections, is considered for potential film sale or distribution agreement proposals. SCREENING: selected films get one public screening at the festival plus secure jury and press screenings. FORMATS: shorts (1 to 59 min) and features (60 min and up); fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and hybrid; any production year and premiere status; TV series, educational and advertising films excluded. FEES: USD 5 to 17 for shorts and USD 6 to 18 for features depending on deadline tier. FINAL DEADLINE: 19 April 2027; results by 19 May 2027.
The Creative Innovation Lab (call CREA-CROSS-2027-INNOVLAB) funds innovative tools, models and solutions applicable across the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors. Every project must involve the audiovisual sector (video games included) plus at least one of music, books or museums. The 2027 call is explicitly aligned with the EU Apply AI Strategy, including AI for content discoverability, and covers virtual worlds, AI-, data- and blockchain-based business tools (rights management, monetisation, data analytics) and greener practices. WHO: a single organisation or a consortium of two or more, established in a Creative Europe country; individuals cannot apply. WHAT YOU GET: an actual-cost grant at an 80 percent funding rate from a total budget of EUR 7,183,502, with financial support to third parties of up to EUR 60,000 each allowed. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal. DEADLINE: 22 April 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
Flagship EU mobility grant for artists and cultural professionals: individual or group (up to 5 people) mobility to carry out an artistic or cultural project in another Creative Europe country, with the support of an international partner of your own choosing (an individual or an organisation). The project must follow 2 of the 4 objectives: to learn, to create, to explore, or to connect. SECTORS: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts; no specific level of experience required. ELIGIBILITY: aged 18+, legally residing in one of the Creative Europe countries, including the overseas countries and territories and outermost regions (Netherlands eligible). GRANT: EUR 85 daily allowance per day of project implementation; travel allowance EUR 400 under 5,000 km or EUR 800 from 5,000 km (distance calculated automatically in the application form as a one-way straight line); top-ups for green mobility (EUR 400), OCT/outermost regions (EUR 175), family (EUR 200 per child under 18) and visa (EUR 120); accessibility support of EUR 30 per day plus personal assistance or sign language interpretation covered. APPLICATION: official national identification, proof of legal residence, short CV, artistic and creative portfolio, and a letter of invitation from the international partner. TIMELINE: call opened 1 October 2026, 9:00 CEST; deadline 30 April 2027, 23:59 CEST.
She Got Game is a Pro Helvetia mentoring programme promoting equal opportunities for women in the Swiss and international game industry, supporting the representation of women in management positions through dialogue with experienced international experts. This is the variant for professional game designers FROM Switzerland who identify as women (a separate variant exists for practitioners in the liaison-office regions). Emerging Talents are developers or studios whose relevant training or registration dates back less than seven years. ELIGIBILITY: requires a connection to Switzerland (Swiss citizenship, or permanent residency with regular artistic activity in Switzerland); not open to practitioners without a Swiss connection. WHAT IS OFFERED: individual coaching on project development, business strategy, finances, marketing, PR, and pitch training; a growing community of female game developers; potential access to international trade fairs; CHF 3,000 toward a prototype or demo; and up to CHF 250 per week toward childcare or children's travel when attending trade fairs. Roughly 30 hours over six months. Submission deadline 1 September 2026 (23:59 CEST); notification November 2026. Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
The Acquisitions scheme helps Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions buy objects that enrich the Dutch National Cultural Heritage Collection, across everything from contemporary art to natural history collections. Acquired objects must be displayed to the public on a (semi-)permanent basis. CONDITIONS: the estimated value of the object must exceed EUR 50,000; complete provenance research is required; the applicant must contribute significantly to the acquisition costs; where multiple items are involved they must form an inseparable ensemble; the institution must follow the lending guidelines and remain the permanent owner. NOT FUNDED: artists' estates, constructional provisions, or passive conservation. APPLY online through the Mondriaan Fund digital system after registering an account, with valuation reports, condition assessments, provenance research, a presentation plan and an itemised budget. Rolling deadline, but allow about three months for processing.
Art Fair International covers stand rental for galleries taking visual art from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom to an art fair, and stand rental plus travel and transport costs for art book publishers at art book fairs. WHO CAN APPLY: Dutch and non-Dutch galleries that have signed and actively apply the Gallery Fair Practice Code, and art book publishers. CONDITIONS: an invitation from the fair is required; the artists presented must be artistically and substantively active in professional visual arts; a maximum of one application per fair per calendar year; no more than three awards annually. AMOUNTS scale with how much of the stand is given to artists from the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, as set out in the funding notes. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund digital application system after creating an account, at least six weeks before a fair on the fund's established list, or three months before a fair that is not listed.
Artist's Fee reimburses part of the compensation an institution pays an artist for work on an exhibition: producing new work, production-related labour, event activities, and providing artwork for presentation. It does not cover expenses such as materials or transport. WHO CAN APPLY: visual arts institutions in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that publicly exhibit contemporary visual art and/or heritage without a sales objective, and that subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code. CONDITIONS: the artist must hold a bachelor's degree in visual arts or have at least three years of professional experience; the fee must comply with the Fair Pay Rate Table 2023; the application must be submitted at least two months before the exhibition opens; the exhibition must open within 12 months of application; artist invoices must be paid within one month; and institutions already receiving other fair pay funding for 2025-2028 are not eligible. AMOUNT: up to 50% of the standard amount excluding VAT where the fee meets at least 100% of the guideline, with a minimum application of EUR 100. APPLY through the online system after creating an account, with a signed artist contract, the exhibition budget, artist CVs and a recent Chamber of Commerce registration. Note for artists: this is applied for by the institution, not by you, but it is worth pointing an exhibiting venue towards.
Art Heritage Festival supports festivals, biennales, triennales and similar events dedicated to the presentation of visual art and/or heritage, held in physical spaces and occurring no more than once a year. The scheme backs activities that reach diverse audiences or create meaningful public engagement with art and heritage. WHO CAN APPLY: non-profit organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom; institutions for art education and post-academic institutions are excluded. NOT FUNDED: journals, publications, documentaries, symposia, conferences or online-only festivals. CONDITIONS: events must be publicly accessible and held no more than once a year; the project cannot receive simultaneous funding from other Mondriaan Fund grants or specified national cultural programmes; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and fair artist compensation is mandatory where artists are involved. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system after registering an account. Allow three months for processing; activities that have already happened cannot be funded.
Art Heritage Presentation funds presentations that are innovative and non-standard, rather than business-as-usual programming: exhibitions featuring internationally renowned artists, engaging shows offering fresh perspectives, public co-creation projects, and presentations built around special loans or commissioned work. WHO CAN APPLY: cultural institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that focus on presenting cultural heritage and/or visual art, including museums, art centres and archives; art education and post-academic institutions are excluded, and the institution must be a non-profit legal entity established in the eligible territory. CONDITIONS: presentations must be open to the public; festivals, biennales and other events recurring annually or less often are handled by the separate Art Heritage Festival scheme, not this one; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and artist fees must be realistic and included in the budget. AMOUNT: up to 40% of variable project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY online after registering an account, with an institutional profile, project plan, presentation plan, itemised budget and, where applicable, artist information with visual documentation.
Collection Mobility supports the revaluation of a collection and, where applicable, the selection, disposal and/or relocation of parts of a collection. NOT FUNDED: construction work, building preservation, archaeological excavation, passive conservation or documentation. WHO CAN APPLY: Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions that are publicly accessible, manage nationally or internationally significant collections, and are registered with the Dutch Museum Register. Joint applications are encouraged and, where relevant, institutions must apply together. CONDITIONS: applicants must follow the Basic Principles for Smarter Loan Transactions in the Netherlands; collections must be disposed of in line with the Guideline for the Disposal of Museum Objects; and the applicant must contribute significant funding itself. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible costs, determined per application. APPLY through the online system at mondriaanfonds.nl after creating an account, with organisational information, collection details, a project plan, a budget and supporting documents.
OSIP is the European Space Agency's standing front door for unsolicited novel ideas, launched in 2019 and now the main entry point for new concepts into ESA, both in response to specific problems and through open calls. HOW IT WORKS: ideas are submitted through two mechanisms. Campaigns are targeted calls responding to specific questions with defined timelines (recent examples include Future Navigation Demonstrators and elements for the EOCognitiveLab mission); Channels are permanently open, open-ended calls on broader topics with no deadline. Submissions can go through an optional community discussion phase, with voting and comments, before expert evaluation by ESA. WHO CAN SUBMIT: individuals, businesses, universities and organisations anywhere in the world. The catch for funding: to implement a funded idea yourself, you must be eligible to do business with ESA under Article 18 of its procurement regulations, which in practice means affiliation with an entity in an ESA member state. WHAT FUNDING LOOKS LIKE: successful ideas are typically supported as co-funded PhD or postdoctoral research (ESA plus a university), early technology development activities, or system studies; amounts vary by route and campaign. WHY IT IS ON THE DESK: this is the one genuinely public, always-open route into ESA for independent researchers, technologists and artists working with space data or space technology concepts; new campaigns appear regularly, so checking the platform periodically is worthwhile. Submit via ideas.esa.int.
NO PUBLISHED CLOSING DATE: the call gives no application deadline, so the operative cutoff is the gathering itself on 2-5 November 2026; apply early. The European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance (ESWA) brings back its Digital Rights Gathering in 2026 as The (W)horrors Edition, in Barcelona just after Halloween. It is a capacity and community-building space by and for sex workers, convened to confront the surveillance, censorship and digital violence they face online and to imagine and build more resilient digital futures. A limited number of spaces is reserved for allies working in adjacent digital rights and harm reduction spaces to host sessions. TWO CALLS ARE OPEN. (1) CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, for sex workers who want to deepen their knowledge of digital rights, online safety and community resilience. Requirements: be a current or former sex worker who is also a member of an organisation in ESWA's network; be available for three days of interactive sessions, skill-sharing and collective learning on 2, 3 and 4 November, and free from 1 November (travel out) through 5 November (travel home), even though some final-day sessions are optional. Selected participants receive full funding covering travel, accommodation and food. (2) CALL FOR TRAINERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS, for facilitators, trainers and educators experienced in digital rights, online safety or sex worker-led organising, who want to deliver an interactive workshop, skill-share or creative session. Sessions run 90 minutes and are compensated at EUR 300 per session, with travel, accommodation and meals covered. Open to current or former sex workers, and to allies with experience in digital rights, digital discrimination, digital security and related fields. SESSION STRANDS: Digital (W)horrors, naming the threats faced online and unpacking how surveillance, censorship and platform policy work against sex workers, including shadowbanning and algorithmic censorship, over-zealous content moderation, law enforcement and third-party surveillance, deplatforming, non-consensual data scraping and retention, and the platforms and policies that enable them; Building Resilience, practical hands-on skills covering open source and privacy-respecting software, how and why to divest from Big Tech platforms, alternative and encrypted communication tools, digital security basics such as protecting data, devices and identity, and other harm-reduction strategies for working and organising online; Imagining Better Futures, creative forward-looking sessions on what a sex worker friendly internet would look like, including prototyping inclusive digital tools, platforms and spaces built by and for sex workers, new apps, alternative social platforms, community-owned tech, and speculative design exercises; Resourcing the Group, sessions focused on care and resilience, including writing and reflection, grounding and somatic exercises, tools for self-care and sustainability in activism, and space for radical rest. The organisers welcome grounded, political and creative contributions from anyone who would like to lead a session. Separate application forms for participants and for session proposals are linked from the call page. Questions: ana@eswalliance.org.
Cultuurloket DigitALL funds the digital innovation of the Dutch cultural sector and is the strongest dedicated digital-culture route currently open to Dutch cultural organisations. It is the successor to the discontinued Kickstart Cultuurfonds, backed by the VandenEnde Foundation, VSBfonds, Ammodo, Het Cultuurfonds and others. The pilot contribution of up to EUR 75,000 supports developing and running a first pilot, prototype or live version of a digital tool, which covers a wide range of creative-technology work embedded in festivals, exhibitions and public programmes. Eligible applicants are theatres, music venues, film theatres, museums, festivals and professional performing arts producers, with collaborations between institutions given priority. The pilot must be tested with the intended public audience, not only with experts, and funding cannot be used exclusively for hardware acquisition. Applications go through an online portal with no deadline and are handled in order of receipt. TIMING: a decision follows within ten weeks of submission, so plan roughly three months of lead time between applying and project start. Training and knowledge development through partner organisations is only covered when included in the submitted budget, so build it in from the outset.
The closest thing the Netherlands has to a dedicated regional art-and-technology fund, being a public-private scheme co-financed by ASML and sited in the country's main technology region. It funds professional cultural projects of high quality with national or international reach, which in practice covers festivals, exhibitions and public programmes including media art and creative technology work. Private-law legal entities only (stichting, vereniging or BV); both new and existing cultural organisations qualify. Projects are assessed on societal impact (must address at least two of accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, social cohesion), cultural entrepreneurship and sustainability, alongside professional artistic quality. Applications are accepted all year round via a two-stage route: an intake where Brabant C scouts give an initial assessment, followed by a full application, pitch session and decision. TIMING RULES ARE STRICT and are the main planning constraint: the full application must be submitted a minimum of 12 weeks before the project starts, and the project may not begin until at least 12 weeks after a complete application has been approved. The internal clock runs roughly two weeks for a completeness check, about six weeks to the pitch session, and about four weeks from pitch to decision. Brabant C never covers more than half the budget, so a matched partner is required from the outset. A separate Brabant C matching scheme for impactful culture projects is open year-round through 31 December 2026 for Brabant-based organisations outside the Brainport region.
Since 2025 Het Cultuurfonds runs a dedicated application route for individual makers and collectives, separate from its project grants for foundations and associations. The ontwikkelbijdrage awards up to EUR 5,000 for research, workshops, masterclasses, courses and training, experiments and equipment, and for the pre-phase of a project, giving makers room to test and develop an idea before it has to be fully executed. It is open to all disciplines: visual artists, theatre makers, spoken word artists, photographers, musicians, ceramicists, restorers and more. A separate matchfundingbijdrage of EUR 250 to EUR 1,500 supports crowdfunding campaigns for public-facing projects such as exhibitions or performances. The route is run with voordekunst. Applying is a two-step process: a short vooraanvraag (pre-application) answered within one week, then a full application answered within four weeks, with development funds paid out within two weeks of approval. Rolling intake, no application fee.
The Basel House of Film, run by the Verein Filmhaus Basel und Umgebung, offers a three month residency for emerging artists working in film and television. Residents receive housing at the Filmhaus in the Basel old town plus a stipend to cover travel and living costs. There is no obligation to produce work, and residents can use the open schedule to write a script, prepare a film, draw storyboards, or edit. The facility includes a clubhouse, meeting room, office space, a small cinema with VR equipment, and an editing and grading suite. The program targets up and coming filmmakers, and both national and international applicants are welcome. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through the online form, followed by a CV, motivation letter, and portfolio sent to the residency email.
Amarte Fonds is a private Dutch foundation that supports the arts, with rolling (continuous) contributions for visual artists and independent curators. There are two contribution types: a development contribution of up to EUR 2,750 and a project contribution of up to EUR 5,500. Up to 80 percent is paid in advance, with the remainder after the final report is approved. Applicants must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom (the ABC and SSS islands). The fund also supports work across theatre, film, music, literature and interdisciplinary projects through specific programmes. There is no fixed deadline and no application fee; decisions are relatively fast. Apply year-round via the online portal.
Development grants from the Nederlands Letterenfonds (Dutch Foundation for Literature) for starting and advanced Dutch literary creators - writers, illustrators and translators - to fund training, coaching, editorial support, or travel and research abroad linked to a literary project. EUR 500 to EUR 2,500 per grant. ELIGIBILITY: Dutch-language literary creators (Dutch or Flemish-speaking world); see funder's application page for full eligibility criteria. CYCLE: applications are reviewed on a ROLLING basis (the scheme has been open since February 2026 and there is no fixed deadline). No application fee.
Commission artists to create new work in publicly accessible spaces such as hospitals or museums. Open to individuals and organisations. Continuous deadline.
Support for visual artists with 4+ years of experience to expand their portfolio, increase visibility or conduct research. Continuous deadline.
Rolling project funding from the Mondriaan Fund for visual artists who want to carry out a concrete artistic plan, research project or working period in the Netherlands or abroad. The fund's definition of visual art is broad and explicitly includes installation art, conceptual art, performance, artistic research, photography, audiovisual, digital, sound and (new) media art, and art in public space. AMOUNTS: a fixed contribution of EUR 2,785 per month for up to 6 months, or a flexible contribution for up to 12 months sized to the project budget; hired expertise, materials and equipment can be part of the budget. The fixed contribution cannot be awarded within 1 year of receiving an Artist Start grant. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists from the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, professionally active for at least 1 year. CONDITIONS: applicants must contribute at least 10 percent of the sum requested; this own contribution may be personal investment, third-party support, an interest-free loan from Fonds Kwadraat or crowdfunding. APPLY at any time through the Mondriaan Fund online application system; allow around 3 months processing once the application is complete.
Support for visual artists at the beginning of their careers with plans for new work. Continuous deadline.
Funding for preliminary research into exhibitions, events, articles or presentations. For curators. Continuous deadline.
Support for owners and managers of objects registered as protected heritage. Continuous deadline.
Voucher to assist hiring artisans for artistic research or work production. Continuous deadline.
Voucher covering childcare costs for visual artists with dependents under compulsory school age. Continuous deadline.
Funding for developing and deepening artistic practice. Continuous deadline.
Quick-response voucher for visual artists, curators, art critics and art observers based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom who have been invited to take part in a public programme abroad. Eligible activities include giving a lecture, performance, book presentation or taking part in a panel at a contemporary visual art institution, venue, festival or symposium outside the Netherlands. Participation in an exhibition and commercial gallery or art fair contexts are not eligible. Visual artists need at least one year of professional practice; curators, critics and art observers need at least two years. Applicants cannot be enrolled full-time in a Bachelor's, Master's or postdoctoral programme. The voucher covers travel and accommodation up to EUR 2,500. Rolling intake, but the timing window is strict: applications are accepted a maximum of 4 months and a minimum of 5 weeks before the activity starts. No application fee.
Rolling general project funding for smaller media-art works, events and research. Covers interdisciplinary projects across music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, film, architecture, socioculture, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and children's and youth culture. For artists, professionals, initiatives and institutions based in Karlsruhe (group applications must include at least one person/institution with first residence or registered office in Karlsruhe). Applied for via the City of Karlsruhe online application; selected by UCCoMA Office staff.
The microagi Research Fellowship (Cohort 01) provides researchers with frontier-lab resources and the freedom to work on hard problems in robotics, embodied AI, and the systems around them. Fellows work in residence for six months at microagi's offices in Munich or Zurich. AMOUNT: up to $2,000,000 in compute; $10,000/month stipend. RESEARCH AREAS: (1) Long Horizon Dexterous Manipulation -- end-to-end models for complex multi-stage tasks with dexterous hands, natural language instruction following, memory across long task sequences, fine-grained physical control in unstructured environments; (2) Cross Embodiment Learning; (3) On Device Physical Intelligence; (4) Safe and Reliable Deployment. microagi's model is to deploy embodied intelligence into physical-world operations and turn what it learns there into compounding research. REFERRAL: $10,000 bonus for referring a candidate who is accepted into the cohort. No application deadline publicly stated as of June 2026 -- one cohort only, apply as soon as possible via https://www.microagi.ai/fellowship.
Fonds 21 supports professional, high-quality art and culture projects by Dutch non-profit organizations (foundations, associations and non-profit BVs/NVs), across performing arts, visual arts, film, literature and interdisciplinary work, with additional pillars for arts education and youth & society. The minimum request is EUR 10,000 with no stated maximum, and roughly EUR 11.5 million is available annually. Applications are accepted year-round via the online portal (after a short eligibility snelcheck) and must be submitted at least four months before the project start date. Free-of-charge events are generally not supported; the fund expects most programming to be paid-access. No application fee.
Het Cultuurfonds (formerly Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) invests over EUR 40 million per year in culture and nature in the Netherlands. Foundations and associations can apply year-round for project grants (typically EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000 at national level), and since 2025 individual makers and collectives can apply for up to EUR 5,000. Provincial chapters run their own quarterly rounds for regional projects, and numerous themed funds (EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000) cover specific disciplines. Rolling intake via the online application portal. No application fee.
VSBfonds supports cultural initiatives that make it possible for everyone in the Netherlands to take part in art and culture, spanning ten programme lines from professional performances to community arts. Applications are accepted year-round with no deadlines from foundations, associations and applicants without a formal legal form, and must be submitted at least four months before the initiative starts (two months for amateur arts). A two-minute online quickscan checks eligibility before the formal application. No fixed minimum or maximum amount; the request should be proportionate to other funding. No application fee.
SIDN fonds (the foundation behind the .nl domain registry) invests in daring projects with societal added value that contribute to a strong internet and strong internet users. The Pioneers track is continuously open and awards up to EUR 10,000 to develop an innovative idea into a demo, pilot or experimental design; it is open to both individuals and legal entities. Larger projects are funded through theme calls issued once or twice a year (legal entities only). Projects must show innovation and public value and share their results openly; plain website or app building and purely B2B proposals are excluded. No application fee.
Stichting DOEN, funded by the Dutch charity lotteries, supports pioneering initiatives within themes including the transformative power of imagination (art and culture), regenerative economy and solidarity economy. Applications are accepted year-round via the Mijn DOEN portal from legal entities only (no individuals) and must be received at least four months before the project starts; the assessment procedure takes about four months. Amateur art practice and standalone productions of films, books, CDs or websites are not supported. No application fee.
The Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, one of the Dutch national cultural funds (annual budget around EUR 30 million), currently has several schemes open for applications: cultural education in vocational education (mbo, EUR 5,000-55,000), cultural education in vmbo/vso/pro (EUR 10,000-65,000), cultural education for the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom (EUR 5,000-50,000), an open call for design-based learning platforms (up to EUR 75,000) and an interdisciplinary scheme for professional makers (EUR 12,500-50,000). Most schemes target cultural institutions, in some cases in partnership with schools. See the subsidies overview for per-scheme conditions. No application fee.
AFK is the City of Amsterdam's arts fund and the main route to project money for artists and organisations working in the city, and it was the significant gap in this desk's Dutch coverage. The Projectsubsidies 2026-2028 scheme funds art and culture projects across disciplines, split into four categories by scale and applicant type; requests up to EUR 7,500 in categories 1 and 2 are assigned to an assessment round by monthly draw, with published loting and gesprek dates. ELIGIBILITY: you must live or work in the municipality of Amsterdam or in Zaanstad, Oostzaan, Landsmeer, Waterland, Haarlemmermeer, Amstelveen, Ouder-Amstel or Diemen. Both individual makers and organisations can apply depending on category. NOTE: AFK periodically closes individual categories when demand outruns budget (categories 3 and 4 for professional art were temporarily shut in May 2026 and reopened on 1 July 2026), so check which categories are open before you start. Applications are in Dutch through the AFK portal. Phone 020 520 0520, weekdays 09:30-12:30 and 13:30-16:00.
La Scam's Brouillon d'un reve Sonore category funds documentary, educational or informational audio works for radio or podcast: reportage, narrative, portrait, chronicle, interview and testimony. WHAT YOU GET: a development bourse of EUR 2,500 to EUR 6,000, paid directly to the author 4 to 5 weeks after contract signing. ELIGIBILITY: explicitly no age, residence or nationality restrictions, and open to non-members, though the application process and repertoire are in French. RULES: one application per year across all Brouillon d'un reve categories; the same project may be submitted at most twice; past laureates must wait three years before reapplying. APPLICATION: rolling, via the online form on the Scam site, with monthly consultation slots running September to July; contact brouillondunreve@scam.fr. The fund leans documentary rather than experimental radio art, but it is a solidly current cash fund for radio and podcast authorship.