Currently 58 active open calls 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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Privacy Camp holds its 14th edition on 13 October 2026 in Brussels and online, organised by European Digital Rights (EDRi) with the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy Salon vzw, the Institute for European Studies at Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, and the Racism and Technology Center. THEME: 'The Origins of Future Technologies: Towards communities of digital self-determination'. The call starts from the premise that digital futures do not appear from nowhere but are built through land, labour, capital, infrastructure, law, public money, political choices and social struggle, and asks where technologies come from, who gets to shape them, and what conditions make digital self-determination possible. It situates this against the EU's 2026 Tech Sovereignty Package (semiconductors, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and data centres) and the wider deregulatory agenda including the Digital Omnibus, the AI Omnibus and reforms affecting data protection, privacy, labour and environmental safeguards, asking whose version of sovereignty is actually being discussed. TOPIC AREAS: (1) Material conditions in the production of technologies, covering the natural resources needed across the supply chain (critical components such as semiconductors, water for data centres) and how GDPR, ePrivacy and AI Act safeguards shape the material conditions of AI from data extraction and biometric processing through to data centres, labour and public infrastructure; labour conditions, including who mines critical materials, union-busting across the tech supply chain, and coalitions between tech workers, unions, migrant justice groups, climate movements and digital rights organisations; and capital, meaning the venture capital forces driving the current AI hype and consolidating through defence, security and militarisation. (2) Political vision in the use of technologies, covering military use and how militarisation and securitisation shape the EU deregulation debate, and the political ideologies driving technology development, including what digital self-determination means for communities facing racialised discrimination, surveillance, occupation, border violence, workplace control or environmental harm. (3) Moving technologies forward through communities, covering community innovation for digital self-determination (distributed and self-hosted data storage, AI built by and for community needs, community-led, public or cooperative digital infrastructure); law, deregulation and rights (resisting the Digital Omnibus and specifically the Data Omnibus, defending GDPR and ePrivacy safeguards, protecting access, transparency and automated decision-making rights, enforcing existing digital laws, supporting collective litigation, and challenging the framing of rights as obstacles to EU competitiveness); and building power by connecting grassroots movements across tech worker organising, labour, migrant, LGBTQIA+, climate, economic justice and landback movements. FORMATS: interactive workshops are particularly encouraged, meaning small-group work, peer exchange and collaboration across sectors, coalitions and disciplines, moving from talk to strategic action; panel discussions are also welcome, especially those centring diverse voices and grounded lived experience with room for meaningful audience engagement. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: state a clear objective for the session and what a good outcome would be; make it as interactive as possible; support a diversity of voices and multiple perspectives; average session length is 50 minutes; propose the format that actually suits the idea rather than forcing a panel into a workshop or vice versa. For workshops, make the objectives, structure and facilitation clear and have participants work together in small groups towards a specific goal; the organisers provide additional guidance, support and feedback for workshops. For panels, list a maximum of 4 speakers covering academia, civil society and decision-maker perspectives, and indicate which speakers have confirmed at least in principle. TIMELINE: proposals due via the online form by 10 August 2026 at 09:00 CEST; the Content Committee notifies applicants before 21 August 2026; confirmation to proceed required by 25 August; draft programme published 4 September; speakers and final session description confirmed by 10 September at the latest (earlier confirmation improves the odds that the EUR 400 reimbursement budget covers speaker travel and accommodation); final programme published 28 September. The 2026 Content Committee is Andreea Belu (EDRi), Gloria González Fuster (LSTS, VUB), Jill Toh (Racism and Technology Center), Sanne Stevens (Justice, Equity and Technology Project) and Alexandra Giannopoulou (DFF). Programme enquiries: andreea.belu@edri.org. Venue and reimbursement enquiries: guillermo.peris@edri.org.
Pee Workshop is looking for 16 performers to take part in a two-day research practice led by Nica Roses and Eris Kyriakides as part of the dance and performance event Matter Out of Place. The workshop uses drinking, holding, and releasing liquid as a starting point for choreographic research, paying attention to the body's internal timing: what we consume, how liquid moves through the body, what the bladder signals, and how the organs produce movements that often go unnoticed. This cycle becomes the structure of the research, opening into dance, somatic exercises, choreographic tasks, group compositions, and experiments with collective energy. The material develops through urination but also through the shared experience of moving, waiting, responding, and performing together. Performers, dancers, movement practitioners, and artists interested in somatic research, experimental choreography, and collective performance-making are welcome; professional dance training is not required, but applicants should feel comfortable working physically and collaboratively. All exercises are approached through clear consent, respect for personal boundaries, and collective care. The workshop takes place Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 August 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00 at The Dirty Art Foundation, culminating in an optional 60-minute public showing on Wednesday 19 August. Each performer receives a fee of EUR 200. To apply, send a short introduction about yourself, your movement or performance experience, and why you are interested in the workshop to nicaxroses@gmail.com by 10 August 2026.
GLINA3 is an Amsterdam clay 3D printing and digital design studio, and it is looking for one collaborator to join a new research project at the intersection of typography, language, technology and material culture. They want an artist, writer, poet, anthropologist or artistic researcher whose existing practice already engages with type design, typography, writing systems, visual language, fonts and letterforms, language technologies, or the tools that shape how language is produced, read or translated. This is an unusually good fit for anyone working on the machine-readable side of language: the brief explicitly names language technologies and translation tooling alongside classical type design. ELIGIBILITY: individual practitioners with demonstrable work in one or more of the listed areas. HOW TO APPLY: the studio asks for relevant work, research, publications or projects connected to type, fonts, writing systems, visual language or the tools that shape them, and nothing else. Because the deadline is tight they say Instagram DM is the fastest route; you can also email a short introduction and one relevant project to office@glina3.nl. NOTE: the fee is confirmed only if the project's own funding comes through, so clarify terms before committing time.
Open call to participate in LPM (Live Performers Meeting), described as the biggest worldwide event dedicated to audiovisual performing arts, returning to Rome for its 27th edition. Artists can take part with AV performances, VJ sets and live mapping (a 30-minute slot to perform); workshops, lectures and project showcases; interactive AV installations; and the Live Immersive Contest (competing for prizes from technical partners). NOTE: this is a participation call rather than a funding opportunity - it requires a paid subscription (EUR 20 as artist or guest) which includes a festival pass, a 30-minute slot, a T-shirt and a daily drink, plus a 20% discount on workshops; there is also a volunteer option. Deadline to submit a proposal is 16 August 2026. Enquiries: subscriptions@liveperformersmeeting.net.
Launched in 2025, this research and creation residency explores the links between contemporary art, psychiatry and the human sciences. It is expressly not a therapeutic programme. It seeks artists whose practice resonates with the notion of the clinical, meaning a situated approach that works closely with lived narratives and specific contexts, and that engages with questions of care. The selected artist receives tailored support from Albertine de Galbert, a clinical psychologist and exhibition curator, including four to six working sessions, alongside networking and meeting time with programme partners. Outputs include an ongoing online journal, a mid-residency open studio, and a closing presentation (exhibition, public talk or publication) defined with the artist. Applications go by email as a single PDF of no more than 15 MB to residence@francoiseartmemo.fr, and require a two-page CV, a ten-page portfolio, a two-page statement of intent, and a letter of recommendation from an institution or a curator. A jury of four to six art and psychiatry specialists decides, with results announced in September 2026.
Open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) for cross-sector collaboration projects that offer new perspectives on current challenges such as climate, housing, polarisation, migration or inequality of opportunity. The procedure runs in two phases. In Phase 1, the applicant and partner use the period to prepare and kick off the project, further explore the theme, intended end product and collaboration, and investigate possibilities (including working on a prototype or proof of concept), concluding with a project plan, budget and collaboration agreement. Phase 2, open only to projects selected and fully completed in Phase 1, focuses on implementation and requires both a written application and a presentation to the advisory committee; projects may deliver various end products (an activity, intervention, event, publication, service, product or process) accompanied by a suitable form of knowledge sharing such as a presentation, symposium or publication. ELIGIBILITY: applicants working with at least one partner in cross-sector collaboration; see the fund's open-call page for full eligibility details. The Phase 1 application window runs from 19 May 2026, 15:00 CEST to 25 August 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The annual DARC PhD/Research Workshop, organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center at Aarhus University with transmediale, responds to transmediale's 2027 thematic framework. THEME: 'Interstices: Research (in) the gaps'. An interstice is the small space between objects set closely together, the cords in a rope or the atoms in a crystal lattice: an emptiness produced by the structure it belongs to, and without which that structure could not be what it is. In crystallography, interstitial sites are the spaces a lattice and its basis generate but do not fill, and interstitial diffusion, the movement of small atoms through the gaps of a host lattice, is the mechanism by which materials transform. The call asks what the equivalent sites are in social, cultural and computational structures: where are the gaps these combinations generate but do not fill, what moves through them, and do they carry transformative power? It works through Yancey Strickler's dark forest theory of the internet (the withdrawal of meaningful exchange from the open, surveilled, indexed web into private channels), the Dark Forest Collective's anthology and its 'cozyweb' of small sheltered spaces, dark nets, miniverses and moving castles as interstitial spaces produced by and defined against the dominant web, and Bogna Konior's extension of the dark forest metaphor to the opacity of AI systems, where silence is refusal rather than absence and the forest is increasingly inhabited by other-than-human intelligences that opt out of engagement with people. Where big tech pursues efficiency through the automation of human perception, cognition, identification and aesthetics, artists and researchers explore the non/more-than-human, glitchy, noisy, machinic, datafied and dark to build new expression and critique of data-ism and what is marketed as artificial intelligence, including the dangers and potentials inside badly curated data models, between polluting data centres, and in skeuomorphic interfaces. WHAT THEY WANT: proposals from artists, researchers and practitioners for work that occupies and moves through gaps that are social as well as structural, ontological and material. The gaps are physical too: the heat of data centres and their thirst for water, latency in the cables, unindexed nodes. The call invites speculations, practical interventions and inferences that fill the gaps and expand the diversity of possible communications and communities that can inhabit dark forests, including those built on, against and beneath the infrastructures underlying them, and welcomes work on the (dis-)continuous histories of technological exploration of computational infrastructures over the last 30 years or longer, and on how current artistic, theoretical and technical explorations repeat or break from them. WHO: PhD candidates and early-career researchers, with submissions welcome from researchers inside and outside the academy, including artists, designers and curators. PARTICIPANT EXPECTATIONS: participants write a paper and present it at the workshop, and on the basis of that peer review shorten the research into a newspaper-length article for distribution at the transmediale festival. The workshop is led by scholars from DARC at Aarhus University. DEADLINE: 28 August 2026, 23:59 CEST, via the application link on the call page. Queries to Pablo Velasco, pvelasco[at]cc.au.dk.
The fifth iteration of transmediale's Digital Art Residency, run with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, awarded to one individual or collective working in digital art practices at the intersection of media arts, performance, sound and moving image. THEME: the 2027 programme sits under transmediale's 40th-anniversary framework RFC 40, named after the early internet Request for Comments series, and treats the festival as a counter-infrastructure: the call asks how a network stays legible to itself while surrounding structures break down, and how technical paradigms can be reconfigured into new cultural protocols outside extractive logics, moving from critique to construction. Proposals should offer alternatives to how we understand, respond to and shape the technological conditions we inhabit. WHAT IS OFFERED: an artist fee of CHF 2,000 per month for two months; a CHF 15,000 production grant supporting a new work or the continuation of an existing project, open to all formats and building on the research begun during the residency (the project must be completed by December 2027 at the latest); travel and accommodation for the festival and the residency; a shared modular working space at transmediale studio; connections to Berlin institutions and stakeholders; a public presentation in transmediale's year-round studio programme; and the option of an online publication in transmediale's journal. STRUCTURE: kick-off with a presentation of the residency projects during transmediale 2027 (26 to 31 January 2027, attendance optional but strongly recommended); onboarding and the first hybrid stretch in May 2027; the mandatory on-site month in Berlin in June 2027; and a second hybrid stretch including reporting in July 2027. Availability for the festival week and for the whole of June in Berlin are treated as key prerequisites. TIMELINE: open call 16 July to 28 August 2026 (23:59 CEST); selected residents announced October 2026. Applications are only accepted via transmediale's submission forms. Contact: info[at]transmediale.de.
European Lab and the Sphera Network are opening submissions for the discourse programme of the next Sphera Media Lab, the annual forum for people defending independent media in Europe. THEMES: technological independence (sovereignty, tools, mutualisation); economic independence (cooperative models); editorial independence (press freedom, resisting the far right). FORMATS SOUGHT: masterclasses, led by an expert sharing advanced knowledge, technique and hands-on insight; and keynotes, inspiring talks grounded in a specific case study. WHO CAN PROPOSE: media outlets, associations, researchers and professionals. The organisers state they pay particular attention to parity and diversity across their programmes and ask that proposals take those criteria into account. WHAT IS COVERED: selected contributors travel to Brussels with transport, accommodation and a fee covered. THE EVENT: Sphera Media Lab 2026 runs on 3 December 2026 at LaVallee in Brussels, a full day of conferences, masterclasses and workshops for independent media professionals from across Europe, alongside the premiere of a documentary on threats facing European journalists. APPLICATION: submit your masterclass or keynote proposal via the Typeform at arty-farty.typeform.com/to/xnDikGGM before 31 August 2026.
AIxDESIGN and the KB (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands) are building an exhibition and public programme about AI, made from the national collection, at the KB in The Hague. Nadia Piet is Creative Lead with the AIxDESIGN community, co-presented with the KB. The premise: long before neural nets, libraries were the machines we built to organise human knowledge, and the show uses the KB's collection to look at what AI is, where it comes from, and how it connects to the older story of how we store, sort, and search what we know. Part of the show lives in the KB Atelier, with talks, workshops, and screenings alongside, intended as AI literacy you can wander into. WHAT THEY WANT: work that engages AI in some way (critical, creative, hands-on, or playful); bonus if it also speaks to archives, libraries, or how we store and sort knowledge, though you do not need to touch the KB's collection to take part. You may pitch to more than one track: (A) SOMETHING FOR THE OPENING NIGHT, a performance, talk, screening, tour, ritual, booth, game, or other experience for the November 2026 opening, fee EUR 1,500 to 2,000; (B) A SESSION IN THE EVENTS PROGRAMME, a workshop or other session once during the three-month run, around 2.5 to 4 hours, fee EUR 2,000 to 2,500; (C) AN (ART)WORK FOR THE EXHIBITION, existing work in any format (installation, sculpture, zine stand, a corner of your own) sturdy enough for a public area with daily traffic, honorarium EUR 200 to 400 including licensing and production; (D) SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY, pitch it anyway. WHO: artists, designers, researchers, technologists, performers, musicians, archivists, or educators working around AI, data, libraries, or cultural heritage; no finished idea or polished CV needed, just a clear, specific pitch. You can be based anywhere and they especially welcome people outside the Netherlands; the show is in-person in The Hague and the fee stays the same wherever you are coming from. HOW TO APPLY: send a short pitch through the form (which track, your idea in a paragraph or two, roughly what it would need, and a link to your work); takes about five minutes, no full application required. Deadline: end of August 2026. Questions to hello@aixdesign.co.
Stiftung Künstler*dorf Schöppingen offers residency fellowships for professional visual artists, authors and composers; since 2023 applications from collectives are also accepted. The call is open to people of all nationalities and ages, and accommodation for partners, family members or assistance can be arranged upon agreement and availability (for physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities, contact the foundation to explain any barriers). Fellows reside and work at the Künstler*dorf for a period of their choosing between two and six months, using the premises and infrastructure on-site. The stipend is EUR 1,500 per month, minus roughly EUR 100-200 for rent and operating expenses; for collectives it is EUR 1,000 per person up to a maximum of EUR 3,000 per month, minus rent and operating costs. Travel, insurance or material costs are covered only in exceptional cases on request. The fellowship is not designed as a production residency and there is no obligation to present results, though exhibition and presentation facilities are available and the voluntary co-organization of events (lectures, readings, workshops or similar) is welcomed. A willingness to participate in events and to engage in exchange with other fellows is a prerequisite. Selection is made by expert juries on the quality of previous work, the quality and plausibility of the project for Schöppingen, and program contributions (interaction / community building). Applications for 2027 can be submitted from 27 June to 31 August 2026 (midnight CET) via the online application portal.
DRIFT (Dance and Research In The Future Time) is a four-year Creative Europe cooperation between ten European organisations, led by Theatre de Liege and Maison de la danse. The distinguishing feature is that it funds artistic research rather than production: you are expected to arrive with questions, not a finished piece you already intend to make, and reviewers read every section of the application through that lens. STRUCTURE: each of the ten partner organisations selects one choreographer from its own country, forming a cohort of ten. Over the programme you get an Onboarding Lab, two weeks of residency with your national partner, three collaborative Online Labs, a Festival Lab in Tunis, individual artistic and curatorial mentoring, and a work-in-progress showcase at the Biennale de la danse in Lyon, all backed by a EUR 20,000 research budget that covers your fees, travel, accommodation and any collaborators. SECOND PHASE: after a further evaluation, five of the ten artists may receive co-production support and touring across the DRIFT network. That phase is separate from this application and is not guaranteed. ELIGIBILITY: professional choreographers in contemporary dance or performance, at a mid-career stage, meaning an established national practice but not yet fully established internationally. You must be based in Belgium, France, Germany (Berlin region only), Greece, Norway, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia or Portugal, and you apply through the partner organisation representing your country of residence, not centrally. Good English and availability for all programme dates are required. The country list is strict, so check it before you start. TIMELINE: applications opened 1 July 2026 and close 31 August 2026; selection through September; results 9 October 2026; programme runs November 2026 to September 2027.
The International Conference on Live Coding is dedicated to practices and research focused on technologies and philosophies that interpret the use of computer code and the public writing of algorithms as performative gestures. The 10th edition runs 9 to 13 March 2027 in Antwerp, hosted by Lambdasonic (TOPLAP Belgium) with the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and De Singel. THEME: 'Dialogues', framing live coding as continuous improvisational exchange between coder, machine and audience, and across disciplines. Suggested topics include dialogues between live coding and acoustic musicians, dancers, theatre, classically trained musicians reading live-coded (or graphical) scores, band and jazz-combo settings, live-coder ensembles, ten-minute live-coded mini-operas, DMX lighting systems, graphics and shader live coding, robotics (pen plotters, textile-weaving robots), design-as-performance, community building, diversity/equity/inclusion, accessibility of live coding languages and interfaces, education, and algorave. The venues will facilitate collaborations with resident dancers, a jazz combo (back-line provided: drums, guitar amp, bass amp, piano), a string quartet reading scores a prima vista, visual artists, students and researchers where possible. FORMATS: short papers (2-4 pages) and long papers (5-12 pages) using the provided template; live performances (800-word abstract, max 150-word programme note, technical rider); workshops (short 2h or long 4h, max 700-word abstract, held in English or Dutch); installations (max 700-word abstract, technical questionnaire plus a measured plan or sketch, with the interactive aspect clearly defined); and satellite events. All contributors submit a max 150-word biography. Peer review is single-blind with at least two reviewers per submission. LANGUAGE: submissions must be in English, except that live performance, installation and workshop proposals may also be submitted in another language (workshops: English, Dutch or French) with a machine-translated English version, stated as such. Substantial use of generative AI in writing papers and performance abstracts must be disclosed; proofreading and translation are exempt. In-person presentation is encouraged, with remote proposals considered and sessions live-streamed where possible; the organisers ask attendees to minimise travel impact and to link up with nearby satellite events to turn a long trip into a mini-tour. The call notes attention to access needs, care responsibilities and other barriers to participation. SATELLITE EVENTS: live coding nodes, art schools and other organisations worldwide are invited to host their own events before or after ICLC 2027; submit a declaration of interest via Fourwaves before 1 February 2027 with a principal contact, city and any confirmed details, and join #iclc-satellite-events on the TOPLAP Discord. Hosts are asked to seek local funding for accommodation, travel and artist fees; the committee cannot fund or organise these but will coordinate dates and publish your event. TO APPLY: submit via Fourwaves at https://event.fourwaves.com/iclc2027/pages using the templates at https://codeberg.org/iclc/iclc-templates (read the README for full proposal instructions). Submission deadline extended to 1 September 2026; acceptance notification 1 November 2026. CALL FOR REVIEWERS: anyone active in a live-coding-related field can volunteer by emailing a short description and keywords of their expertise to iclc@lambdasonic.be, the same address for general questions.
Rotterdam's standing project fund for one-off artistic and cultural activity, and the most accessible municipal route for festivals, exhibitions and public programmes in the city. The discipline list names e-culture outright alongside moving image and artistic film, design and fashion, visual arts and photography, architecture, spoken word and all hybrid forms, so media-art and creative-technology programming is squarely in scope. Both non-profit legal entities and natural persons may apply, so individual artists are eligible. There is no published maximum per application; the real constraint is the EUR 272,000 available per round against roughly 130 competing applications. Six rounds run every year with fixed closing dates on the first of January, March, May, July, September and November. TIMING RULE: the activity may not start until eight weeks after the closing date of the round applied in, so a 1 September 2026 application supports activity from late October 2026 onward. Decisions normally arrive within eight weeks of the round deadline, extendable to 20 weeks. Associations and foundations apply via eHerkenning, individuals via DigiD. Organisations already receiving Rotterdamse Culturele Basis, Cultuurplan, Impulsregeling, national BIS, Lokale Culturele Programmering or a CBK Rotterdam practice contribution are excluded.
This is the Groningen scheme that actually funds festivals, and the correct counterpart to the Kunstraad's Projectenregeling, which explicitly excludes festivals and recurring programmes and redirects them here. It supports coherent, continuous public activity across 2027 and 2028 in all arts and heritage disciplines, naming recurring production series, festivals and programme lines as eligible, with no exclusion of media art, digital culture or experimental sound work. Annually recurring festivals with a year-round paid organisation are explicitly named as eligible applicants. Awards run from EUR 5,000 to 40,000 per year against an annual pot of EUR 325,000, capped at one third of total project costs, so two thirds must come from municipal funds, national funds, box office or own contribution. Unusually, the money may also be used to strengthen the organisation itself on the business side, not only to pay for programme content. The application window is 1 July to 1 September 2026, closing at 23:59, and only applications received on time are processed. Applications must be submitted in Dutch via the Mijn Kunstraad portal with fair-pay standards applied in the budget. Funding covers nothing before 1 January 2027. Professional non-profit organisations only; amateur associations and individual artists are directed elsewhere. Material investments, equipment purchases and housing costs are excluded.
The Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) invites applications for its 2027 Artists in Residence program, fostering artistic exchange in key areas of current research. Residencies are available in five themes: Spatial Audio; Klavierautomat (algorithmic composition); Moving Loudspeakers; Dance and Generative AI; and Object Performance. The program offers access to ICST's facilities and technical infrastructure, professional support from researchers, and per diems for meals and accommodation. Artists and musicians working with sound and sound media, whose practice reflects a strong interest in one of the listed research areas, are encouraged to apply. One selected project from the Spatial Audio Residency will be featured at the SONIC MATTER Festival 2028 as part of an ongoing partnership. PRACTICAL: residencies include use of facilities and technical infrastructure as specified in the thematic descriptions, plus technical support by ICST research staff. Participants receive a contribution toward travel to Zurich (up to CHF 300 for persons living in Europe, up to CHF 500 for persons living outside Europe) and a per diem to cover meals and accommodation in Zurich; participants organise their own travel and accommodation, with ICST assistance if required. Residency dates are defined individually. APPLICATION: submitted via the online form, uploading a concept sketch, composition idea or project draft (PDF, 2 pages, 10 MB max); a portfolio of three selected works relevant to the residency topic including links to external audio and video (PDF, 2 pages, 10 MB max); and a tabular CV covering education and career (PDF, 1 page, 10 MB max). The residencies are awarded by a jury of ICST researchers and project leaders. TIMELINE: deadline 1 September 2026 at 24:00 CET; candidates notified mid-October 2026. Selected candidates receive forms required for an invitation to Switzerland and must confirm participation and return completed forms within 10 days or the invitation may be withdrawn.
Pro Helvetia's grant for production with presentation funds newly created visual artworks that are being presented publicly for the first time. Open to cross-regionally established artists, photographers, and architects (and collectives) with institutional experience and exhibition activity beyond their own language region. 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. AMOUNT: maximum CHF 25,000. Submission deadline 1 September (23:59 CEST). Apply via the Pro Helvetia portal.
Klang, Copenhagen's avantgarde music festival, is seeking one to three projects at the intersection of experimental music and movement, dance or choreography for its 2027 edition at Dansehallerne. Important constraint: the call is explicitly for ready-to-go projects, not commissions or works in progress, so the work must already be finished and production-ready. Submission is a one-page PDF covering artistic description, budget overview, bios, duration and media links, emailed to opencall@klang.dk with 'Open Call 2027' in the subject line. The submission window runs 1 July to 1 September 2026. The toaspern|moeller duo together with Klang Festival review feasible submissions in September 2026, with notification in October 2026.
The National Gallery of Iceland announces an artist residency open call under its CUSP program, a European cooperation project funded through Creative Europe's Culture grant. Artists working in complex media or emerging technologies (e.g. generative AI, custom sensors, sound, software-based, blockchain, physical and digital hybrid) are invited to apply. This is the first of four residency stays offered to different artists through the program, one in each of the participating countries (Iceland, Norway, Czechia, and Ukraine), followed by two micro residencies in the Netherlands and Iceland. The programme brings together artists working in time-based media with museum professionals, conservators, and technology specialists developing preservation and conservation methodologies to ensure the long-term endurance of artworks. The selected artist will meet with a preservation specialist or conservator specializing in time-based media art for an in-depth artist interview addressing the preservation needs of their medium, and will present their body of work and working methods publicly during an open-lab masterclass designed in collaboration with the museum. RESIDENCY: up to four weeks in early 2027 in Reykjavik, exact dates arranged with the selected artist. WHAT IS PROVIDED: accommodation and working space; a travel and subsistence stipend; an artist fee for the open lab/masterclass; and possibly hardware and software depending on the artist's request and museum means. ELIGIBILITY: international artists based outside Iceland; applicants must be residents of any of the 27 EU member states or of non-EU countries with association agreements (EFTA/EEA members, acceding countries, candidate countries, and European Neighbourhood Policy countries). APPLICATION: complete the application form with full name, country of residence, gender identity, contact information, an artistic statement (max 2500 characters), a motivation letter (max 2500 characters), a draft idea of the public workshop or masterclass (max 1000 characters), links to social media/professional websites, and a CV and portfolio upload (max 10MB each). DEADLINE: 3 September 2026 at 23:59 GMT. ABOUT CUSP: Creative Understanding, Saving and Preserving Time-Based Media Art is a transnational cooperation project co-funded by the EU's Creative Europe Culture grant, led by the National Gallery of Iceland with Nasjonalmuseet (Norway), LI-MA (Netherlands), Vasulka Kitchen (Czechia), and Mystetskyi Art Arsenal (Ukraine), focused on preserving and presenting time-based media art. Inquiries: cusp.residency.is [at] gmail.com.
Fundacion Cotec (a Spanish innovation-focused non-profit) and Sonar+D, building on an initial experiment at Sonar 2026, invite proposals for a long-term installation at KNOWCASE, the street-level showcase of Cotec's Madrid headquarters in Chamberi, visible to the public 24 hours a day. THEME: digital culture, meaning projects that combine knowledge, research, science and data with art, technology and social impact. Cotec's stated priorities are the big transitions (analogue to digital, linear to circular economy, tangible to intangible) plus innovation ecosystems and R&D&I, the climate crisis, the future of work and learning, social divides, citizen participation and democratic health. WHAT YOU GET: a budget of up to EUR 100,000 plus VAT covering everything (design, production, installation, maintenance, documentation, artist fees, travel, accommodation and insurance), and a minimum 24-month public display from February 2027. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, collectives, designers, technologists, universities, research centres, startups, businesses, creative agencies, producers, cultural institutions and multidisciplinary teams, internationally; applicants must demonstrate solid experience and a relevant portfolio. CONSTRAINTS: the proposal must be original and never previously exhibited, must include participative or interactive elements, must encourage critical thinking, and must be technically and financially viable for the full 24+ month exhibition period (durability and maintenance are central selection criteria). Selection weighs conceptual quality highest (40 percent), followed by public interactivity (25 percent). HOW TO APPLY: one PDF of maximum 15 pages containing summary, concept, technical proposal, visuals, budget, timeline, team profile, portfolio and declaration, in Spanish, another official language of Spain, or English, via the application portal linked from the terms and conditions. Results announced 14 October 2026. Deadline 7 September 2026 at midnight CEST.
PICE Visitantes is the inbound mirror of PICE Movilidad: a Spanish festival, biennial, fair, museum or platform applies for AC/E to fund bringing international programmers, curators, producers and cultural professionals to its event in Spain, so that they meet Spanish artists and go on to programme them abroad. It is direct money to an organisation to enrich a festival or public programme it is already hosting. The same ten thematic areas apply as in Movilidad, including Artes visuales, Musica y creacion sonora, Podcast and Videojuego y animacion, giving good coverage for media-arts, sound-art and creative-technology events. Covered costs are travel, accommodation, travel insurance, internal transport, text translation and simultaneous or consecutive interpretation for the invited visitors, with the exact list varying slightly by thematic area. Only entities constituted in Spain may apply; natural persons are barred. Invited guests may come from any country including non-EU and the UK. TIMING: Phase 3 closes 7 September 2026, provisional list 21 October, definitive list 30 October, and visits may not start before 1 November 2026. Applications go through the AC/E PICE online system in Spanish or English with no fee.
Híbrides is a biennial of artistic research co-organised by the Axolot.cat collective and the DARTS (Design, Art, Technology and Society) research group at the UOC in Barcelona. The second edition, "Small Embodied Data," centres on the concept of classification -- approached through machine learning, data science, algorithmic systems, and questions of who designs classifiers, under what ethical codes, and to what end. The biennial brings classification into dialogue with its previous themes of Small Data (community-defined, intentional data collection and analysis) and Embodiment (bodily experience as a foundation of situated, sensory knowledge). Both academic and non-academic contributions are welcome. FORMATS ACCEPTED: Oral Presentations (20 minutes; artistic practice, artistic research, or academic research projects; may be video-recorded for a public archive and developed into short papers); Performances (20-30 minutes; must engage with the physical body, stage, and technology; complete works, including previously presented work; takes place in a multipurpose space with technical support). SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: online form with abstract (max 1,000 characters), professional biography (max 1,000 characters), and link to representative materials (3-5 images; video and technical rider required for performances). HONORARIA: oral presentations €100; performances €400; invoice required in both cases. Participants must follow the event's code of conduct. Event runs 26-28 November 2026 at UOC Poblenou campus and Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona. Deadline: 7 September 2026. Submit at https://hibrides.axolot.cat/opencall.html.
Prague performance venue Studio ALTA announces four residency open calls for 2027, all with a single deadline of 10 September 2026. RESEARCH HOUSE (19 to 28 April 2027): a shared residential laboratory for three art projects or individual artists in the early stages of exploration and experimentation, or reopening an existing finished work (performance, installation, object, video) to transform it into another form such as a workshop, text or performance-lecture. Includes a 10-day residency, a fee of CZK 12,000 per project, shared studio, individual workspace and facilitated exchange meetings; the research output must be shared publicly as a work-in-progress in a form based on participants' needs. REST HOUSE (March to November 2027): a five-day residential spa for overloaded colleagues from the arts sector, with no required output or activities; restricted to people working in production, dramaturgy, curation, PR, technical and other supporting artistic professions in the Czech independent sector. Two guests are chosen by lottery (fee CZK 6,000 per person); the public draw is announced 16 September 2026. HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (9 to 18 August 2027): for one performative art project created with the local community and designed or adapted for public space in Liben and its surroundings; this year's call focuses on the 55+ target group. Includes a fee of CZK 30,000 per project, rehearsal and indoor facilities (primarily outdoor spaces), dramaturgic, production, technical and PR consultation, connections to partner organisations, and 7 days of intensive production and technical support in the final phase. A public premiere or work-in-progress in public space at the end of the residency is required. HOUSE OF SWEAT (1 to 10 February 2027): for one performative art project designed or adapted for the specific environment of the Studio ALTA sauna and its immediate surroundings, seeking new ways of working with intimate space, proximity to the audience and non-traditional formats. Includes a fee of CZK 15,000 per project, a 10-day residency, sauna and rehearsal spaces, dramaturgic, production, technical and PR consultation, and 2 days of intensive final-phase support; a public work-in-progress or premiere in the sauna within the 9 to 12 February 2027 programme block is required. Projects at any stage of development can apply to the production calls, and selected projects may be included in Studio ALTA's year-round programme. TIMELINE: deadline 10 September 2026; results 3 weeks after the deadline (30 September 2026); a Q&A Zoom call takes place 10 August 2026 at 3:00 PM. Apply via the registration forms on the call page.
Nordic Culture Point's main project line, funding Nordic collaborative arts and culture projects across all phases: preliminary work, production, presentation and dissemination. Eligible activity explicitly includes creative productions, workshops, knowledge development and spaces for artists to meet publics, which covers festivals, public programmes and convenings when framed as new collaborations. The tiered co-financing model is the standout feature: EUR 7,000 with no match at all, rising to EUR 100,000 at a 50 percent match, and in-kind contributions count. NOTABLE: applicants do not need Nordic residency or citizenship provided the three-country and two-Nordic partner structure is met, so a non-Nordic organisation can lead the project. The autumn window runs 10 August to 10 September 2026, closing 15:59 UTC+3. TIMING RULE: decisions arrive ten weeks after the deadline and no project may start before notification, so budget for a roughly three-month lag. The programme will not finance existing tours, institutional running costs, ongoing festival core financing, solo performances, film, TV or gaming production, or book publishing, so a recurring festival must present a distinct new collaborative strand rather than seek operating support.
The Prisma Art Prize is an international award for painting and two-dimensional artistic research based in Rome. The 20th edition selects emerging and established artists working in painting, drawing, illustration, printmaking, and traditional mixed media for a group exhibition at Palazzo Merulana, opening November 5, 2026. Winners share an annual cash fund of EUR 2,000 distributed across quarterly calls and receive inclusion in the collective catalogue plus artist interviews. Additional opportunities include solo exhibition prizes and fully funded placements at partner art residencies. The prize is open internationally to all living artists regardless of age, gender, nationality, or educational background. The submission deadline for this edition is September 10, 2026.
VBKÖ, the Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists founded in 1910, invites proposals for its annual programme running March 2027 to February 2028. The call reads the present moment through the resurgence of authoritarianism, fascism, militarisation, colonial violence and extractive capitalism, and the parallel privatisation of care and criminalisation of solidarity. Drawing on María Galindo's framing of feminism as a project of social transformation and Sara Ahmed's account of feminist work beginning with refusal, the programme treats alternative ways of living as something rehearsed collectively through organising, creating, caring, listening, remembering and struggling. VBKÖ seeks a programme of practices that nurture communal care and build a platform for collective rehearsals: proposals that allow for tenderness, that are not afraid of ugly feelings and different truths, and that explore how contemporary queer and feminist perspectives resonate across artistic, social and political movements. FORMAT REQUIREMENT: only exhibition formats bringing together multiple artists, collectives or collaborative practices are accepted. Solo exhibitions, individual presentations and projects centred on a single artist's work are explicitly not supported. Proposals that activate the exhibition through public programming (screenings, performances, workshops, lectures and other events) are encouraged. Regular opening hours are Fridays and Saturdays 2pm to 6pm; any additional hours must be arranged and staffed by the selected group. The association acknowledges that its own history is marked by violence, exclusion and discrimination on the basis of religion, class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity, and states that it actively opposes all forms of discrimination including trans-exclusionary radical feminism. APPLICATION: a single PDF (max 5MB) with a programme description (max 2 pages, images welcome, English or German, including preferred dates and duration), a CV and biography for every participant (max 1 page each), a financial plan (Fair Pay encouraged), technical requirements, and contact details including email, mobile number and main residence; three high-resolution images of work or exhibition sketches sent within the email or via a download link, labelled with artist name, work title, year and proposal title (video links may be included in the proposal). Send to opencall@vbkoe.org with the subject line 'Open Call + your proposal title'. Incomplete applications will not be considered. A shortlist is compiled by the VBKÖ team and final selections are made by the VBKÖ board with an external jury member experienced in contemporary art, activism and community building; shortlisted applicants may be asked to present to the jury. Results are announced at the beginning of October 2026. Deadline 10 September 2026, 23:59. Free to apply.
Open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) for projects within digital culture that provide insight into and reduce the ecological impact of digital technology. Data storage in the cloud, generative AI chatbots and other everyday digital habits carry major ecological consequences: the energy consumption of data centres, the raw materials used for hardware, and ever-growing e-waste. The Fund encourages projects that make the ecological (and therefore also social) impact of digital technologies and data consumption tangible, question it, and put alternative working methods into practice, around topics such as regenerative culture, degrowth, low-tech, the reuse of obsolete hardware, and responsibility for the technologies we use within digital culture. Applications may concern new projects or the reinterpretation or further development of existing initiatives that show scope for more depth or a changed approach. Collaborations in which designers, makers or researchers engage with sustainability from an intersectional perspective are explicitly encouraged. The grant may be used for artistic and substantive development, research, collaboration, knowledge sharing, presentation and documentation. ELIGIBILITY: individual makers, designers, researchers or collectives working on alternative ways of handling digital technology, registered with a Chamber of Commerce within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Grant awards a maximum of EUR 30,000; maximum project duration one year. This call is open from 17 August 2026, 15:00 CEST until 14 September 2026, 16:00 CEST. No application fee. Questions: digitalecultuur@stimuleringsfonds.nl.
Orizzonti L.I.V.E. is Fondazione CRT's flagship thematic call for organisations that programme live performance as a driver of territorial transformation. The acronym stands for Luoghi, Impatto, Visioni, Energia, and stated priorities are strengthening organisations rooted in their territory, audience development reaching new publics, social inclusion and access for economically or socially fragile audiences, professional engagement of young musicians, actors and dancers, audience engagement aimed at under-25s, stable networks and strategic partnerships, and environmental sustainability aligned with Agenda 2030. This is festival and season funding at meaningful scale: the maximum request is EUR 100,000 and the overall project budget must itself be at least EUR 100,000, with co-financing covering at least 70 percent of eligible costs, so the applicant must bring roughly EUR 70,000 from other sources. The 2026 call runs in two sessions: the first closed 27 February 2026, and the second closes 15 September 2026 at 15:00 Italian time. Applications go through rol.fondazionecrt.it. SCOPE CAVEAT: this is broad live-performance funding rather than a media-arts line, so it fits experimental performance, sound art and hybrid live work but also covers conventional music and theatre. Non-EU and UK organisations can realistically only participate as project partners, not as lead applicants.
Kulturdirektoratet's main scheme for multi-artistic and cross-disciplinary events, organisers and venues, and the natural Norwegian route for a festival or biennial that does not sit inside a single artform committee. It funds single events, event series, festivals and seminars with cross-disciplinary relevance, plus year-round operation of organisations with a multi-artistic profile, which covers media arts, digital culture and experimental sound programming presented alongside other forms. Art production itself, closed workshops, infrastructure investment and activity already completed before the deadline are not funded. Two application rounds run in 2026: 8 April 2026 (project grants, closed) and 15 September 2026 at 13:00 (project grants plus activity grants for the 2027 operating year). Project grants accept individuals, private and public institutions, and organisations, while activity grants require an organisation number or a named, separately budgeted activity within a larger entity, existing for at least one year and not already receiving permanent annual state funding. The scheme never fully finances a project, so a credible co-financing plan is expected. FLAG: decision dates and foreign-applicant eligibility are not published on the scheme page; award notifications arrive via the application portal.
THE ONE International Digital Art Biennial, organized by Pinata Group in Torun and Wloclawek, Poland, accepts digital art internationally with free entry; prizes are PLN 3,000, 2,000, and 1,000, plus exhibition and an ISBN catalog. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: submitted works may not be AI-generated. NOTE: the 15 September 2026 deadline is from a listing site and is not stated on the organizer page; verify before submitting.
Open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL supporting designers in deepening and professionalising their own practice rather than delivering an external client project. It funds practice development across design, architecture, digital culture and the crossovers between them, and the Fund explicitly names digital storytellers and sound designers among eligible practitioners, which makes it one of the more accessible routes for a maker working between technology and art. ELIGIBILITY: designers with an independent practice of at least four years, established in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Temporary collectives may apply with one lead applicant. Grants run from EUR 8,250 to EUR 28,250. The window runs 19 August 2026, 15:00 CEST to 17 September 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (AP University of the Arts) invites applications for artistic research projects starting 20 September 2027, in three types: start projects, one-year projects, and two-year research projects. Applications are embedded in one or more of the Conservatoire's four research groups, supervised by a supervisor, and must align with the Conservatoire's mission and vision. FOCAL POINTS across disciplines: research into improvisation and intuitive creation and performance practices; new dramaturgical and scenographic approaches in cross-over projects; methodologies for interdisciplinary creation processes; sustainable relationships between artists and urban communities; the possibilities and limitations of inclusion in education and/or on stage; and well-being and resilience in music and performing arts. FUNDING (salaried research position): start projects, 20% employment for 12 months plus EUR 1,000 operating resources; one-year projects, 55% employment for 12 months plus EUR 1,000; two-year projects, 55% employment for 24 months plus EUR 2,000. PRECONDITIONS: the applicant holds a relevant master's degree and conducts research situated in or arising from their own artistic practice with the capacity for discursivity; the proposal must align with the Conservatoire's mission/vision; the applicant must be able to enter contractual employment with the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp/AP University of the Arts for the duration of the project (international applicants must hold a valid Belgian work permit); proposals may be submitted only in Dutch or English. PROCEDURE (two steps): STEP 1, submit an expression of interest by 21 September 2026, 12:00 noon (applicants informed by the week of 5 October whether they may develop a full proposal with a research group); STEP 2, submit the full project dossier by 1 December 2026, 12:00 noon. Evaluation by an independent reading committee aims to conclude in March 2027. Contact: Kevin Voets, Head of Research, kevin.voets@ap.be.
Fonds Podiumkunsten's route for Dutch festivals and venues bringing in exceptional foreign performing arts and concerts that Dutch audiences would otherwise not see. The applicant must be a Netherlands-registered legal entity running a venue or festival and carrying artistic and financial responsibility for its own programme, so individuals and sole traders cannot apply. Grants are calculated from travel and transport costs of the incoming artists, at a maximum of EUR 25,000 per production and EUR 75,000 per applicant across several productions. The core test is that the foreign work is rarely or never seen in the Netherlands and substantially enriches the existing Dutch offer, which favours experimental, non-canonical and cross-disciplinary programming over mainstream touring. Experimental music and sound-art programming is not excluded; the selection criterion is rarity and added value, not genre. Applications go through the Mijn Fonds portal and there is no fee. Four rounds run each year. TIMING: because the scheme competes against a shared EUR 267,500 per-round pot and assessment takes several weeks after the deadline, organisers should apply at least one full round ahead of the performance date and must not have the activity already underway. Success rate in 2025 was 60 percent of 33 applications.
Annual scheme funding festival organisations in the creative industries (design, architecture, digital culture, fashion, e-culture, etc.) presenting a 2027 edition. Application window opens 25 August 2026 at 15:00 CEST and closes 23 September 2026 at 16:00 CEST. Supports both content programming and the organisational/curatorial running of a festival; applicants must be organisations rather than individuals, but the scheme is the natural home for any artist-led collective or platform that runs a critical-AI / digital-culture / surveillance-focused festival event. Note the wider 2026 context: Stimuleringsfonds is restructuring its grant offering for 2027, and several individual schemes (Design, Digital Culture) have been reduced to two rounds in 2026. The Festivals scheme is a separate annual track and one of the cleaner ways to access SCI funding for an event-format project.
Joint open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Cultural Participation Fund supporting platforms that develop design-based learning, covering product design, textile and fashion, spatial design and creative coding. Maximum EUR 75,000 per application from a EUR 720,000 pool, with regional quotas including the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. ELIGIBILITY IS NARROW: only foundations (stichtingen) may apply. Educational institutions and organisations already receiving four-year BIS funding are excluded, and individuals cannot apply. Deadline 23 September 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The Danish Arts Foundation's Production and Exhibitions programme funds the production, dissemination and exhibition of contemporary art in Denmark and abroad, and it is one of the few Nordic national schemes a foreign organisation can apply to directly. Eligible costs include creating new works where an exhibition agreement is in place, exhibition costs, exhibition programming featuring Danish or international artists, promotion tied to an exhibition, and honorariums covering artists' work and installation time, which lets a festival or biennial cover commission and artist-fee lines. THE KEY CONDITION for non-Danish applicants is that the exhibition must feature Danish artists; Danish artists and venues face no such restriction. No minimum or maximum grant is published since the committee decides case by case, and previous award levels are visible on the site. Two 2026 deadlines apply: 26 March 2026 (closed) and 24 September 2026 at 14:00, with the application form opening one month before each deadline. TIMING: applicants receive a response no later than twelve weeks after the deadline, so expect a decision by mid-December 2026. Applications must go through the Danish digital subsidy portal; submissions outside it are rejected except in very special circumstances. FLAG: earliest-start-date rules are not specified on the funder's page.
BNG Cultuurfonds funds arts and culture projects that add value for Dutch municipalities and their inhabitants, explicitly including temporary exhibitions, public programmes and festivals developed by professional makers. Media art, digital culture and cross-disciplinary work qualify as long as a professional maker's artistic vision leads the project. Only stichtingen (foundations) may apply: no sole traders, associations, individuals, or foundations in formation. Applications go by email to aanvraag.cultuurfonds@bngbank.nl with a signed form, a project plan of at most 3,500 words, a specified budget and coverage plan, current statutes and a recent KvK extract. The grant is EUR 5,000 to 15,000 and can cover no more than 35 percent of the budget. TIMING IS THE MAIN TRAP: for the 27 September 2026 deadline, feedback comes at the end of December 2026 and the project may not start before 1 January 2027, with applications for earlier-starting projects rejected outright with no exceptions. Missing documents are flagged up to one week before the deadline, so anything submitted in the final week cannot be corrected. Plan for roughly four months of lead time. Excluded: amateur art, talent development, education-focused projects, semi-permanent public art, publications, building or renovation, and regular operating costs. Further rounds: 3 January 2027, 28 March 2027, 27 June 2027, 3 October 2027 and 2 January 2028.
A fully funded art-science residency from Ars Electronica and Ceske Budejovice, European Capital of Culture 2028, exploring how art and science can collaborate on urgent environmental challenges: climate emergence, sustainable agriculture, geoengineering, permaculture, water resource management, and the broader ecological impacts on local communities. Selected residents work in direct collaboration with local scientists in Ceske Budejovice. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, designers, creatives and artist collectives with more than 5 years of professional creative practice and documented interdisciplinary work; experience in community engagement and science collaborations is essential; applicants must be 18+, of any nationality, and legally eligible to work and travel in the EU. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 24,000 package (EUR 6,000 artist fee, up to EUR 15,000 production, up to EUR 3,000 travel and subsistence) plus one month of housing covered separately; two winners are selected. STRUCTURE: the residency runs January 2027 to April 2028, with a required on-site stay of up to one month in February/March 2027, an optional stay in August/September 2027, and a March 2028 stay for festival installation, exhibition and deinstallation. HOW TO APPLY: online form with project title, a written proposal of max 250 words, a scientific direction statement (max 100 words), artistic vision (max 100 words), community connection plan (max 100 words), a super short pitch (3 to 30 words), 3 to 7 images, an optional 1-minute video, a portfolio link and contact information. Two-round selection (online application then interview); winners notified by November 2026. Deadline 28 September 2026 at midnight CET.
The mid-size project strand of Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven, the arm's-length body that distributes the city's culture budget, and the main municipal route for an Eindhoven organisation to fund a festival, exhibition or public programme. Awards go up to EUR 35,000 and cover a maximum of 80 percent of eligible costs, so at least a fifth of the budget must come from elsewhere. Unlike the Snelgeld strand this route is closed to individuals: only private-law legal entities established in Eindhoven may apply. Rounds run three times a year in fixed windows; the next opens 1 September and closes at 17:00 on 30 September 2026, which is round 1 of the 2027 cycle. TIMING: the decision lag is long by municipal standards at up to 13 weeks after the submission window closes, so a September 2026 application is decided around the end of December 2026 and activity should be planned for 2027. Given Eindhoven's design and technology profile, media-art, design and creative-technology programming fits the remit particularly well. The parallel Snelgeld strand offers up to EUR 5,000 on rolling intake, reopening 1 September 2026 and running until 31 December 2026 or until the tranche budget is exhausted, whichever comes first.
Created in 2025, the Phenomenon Grant is a yearly program that supports art projects in Greece with grants of EUR 5,000 to EUR 10,000 for individuals, collectives, and non-profit organizations engaged with queer, feminist, anti-colonial, and other emancipatory art practices. The grant aims to support critical phases of artistic development, enabling experimentation, research, collaboration, and the realization of new and ongoing projects. In a context marked by rising authoritarianism, genocidal forces and the dismantling of social justice advancements, the program seeks to support voices that critically and ethically engage with these issues, create spaces of resistance, reimagine futures beyond exclusion, persecution, and domination, and open pathways toward collective liberation. Particular attention is paid to collaborative endeavours rooted in Greece that are built on connections with the Global Majority, promoting networks of translocal solidarity and interconnected struggles. Organized and supported by Kerenidis Pepe, which has pledged a total budget of EUR 60,000 over 2025-2027, the amount awarded is based on the application's actual funding needs. In 2025 the program received 193 applications and awarded three grants of EUR 8,500 each to Athens Museum of Queer Arts (AMOQA), Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA) and Theo Panagopoulos. The 2026 selection committee is composed of Athena Athanasiou, Dora Garcia, Christina Li, VASKOS, and chaired by Aggelika Mitsiou. The submission period runs from 1 September to 30 September 2026, with selected projects announced in November 2026.
Waag Futurelab invites artists, theatre makers, choreographers, dancers, game designers and other creative practitioners to engage directly with seven experimental generative AI Enablers being co-created with technologists and dance, theatre and gaming professionals. The call is an invitation into the development process: selected artists get access to the technologies, datasets, interfaces and assumptions that shape these systems while they are still being built. Rather than testing whether the systems work, artists are asked to interrogate why they work the way they do, who they are designed for, what forms of creativity they enable or constrain, and what assumptions about culture, intelligence, authorship, labour, bodies, audiences and society are embedded in them. Waag is looking for individuals and collectives willing to move beyond adoption into investigation, and welcomes proposals that are speculative, critical, poetic, provocative, humorous, performative, constructive or disruptive, including work that challenges, misuses, reimagines, hacks, subverts or plays with the tools, exposes hidden biases, questions environmental costs, or imagines alternative technological futures. THE SEVEN AI ENABLERS, each requiring an on-site visit to its technology partner: the Generic Procedural Content Generation Enabler (text-to-3D assets and avatars, CERTH, Greece); the Data-Driven Cultural Content Adaptation Enabler (audience-aware creative content ideation with ranked candidate ideas, CERTH, Greece); the Cross-Domain Audience Engagement Analytics Enabler (turning heterogeneous cultural participation data into interpretable engagement signals, The Audience Agency, Warrington, UK); the Dance Style Analysis and Generation Enabler (dance video into virtual 3D choreography, dissected into body, effort, shape and space components, Centre of Excellence for Research & Innovation, Cyprus); the Immersive Design Integration Enabler for Dance & Theatre (NLP-driven XR environments with speech-to-3D scene editing, Cyprus); the Music-to-Movement Translation Enabler (audio into a time-aligned feature set spanning genre classification, emotional valence-arousal analysis, rhythm extraction and latent-space projection, feeding motion generation, spatial audio and visual choreography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); and the Adaptive Narrative Enabler for Games & Theatre (an evolutionary AI trained on creator-written story elements that generates infinite story variations, explicitly rejecting LLMs because of their dependence on copyrighted or public-domain corpora that encode 19th and early 20th century sexism, racism and imperialism, CAUSA Creation, Austria). ELIGIBILITY: artists, designers, creative technologists, theatre makers, dancers, choreographers and game designers, as individuals or collectives; applicants must hold a European VAT number. An info session with live demonstrations of the AI Enablers runs 31 July 2026, 10:00 to 11:30 CEST (meeting ID 995 7016 2341). Applications go through Homerun using the official Application Template, uploaded as a PDF; read the Guide for Applicants, which contains the full Enabler descriptions, before applying. Questions: zoenie at waag dot org. The AI Enablers and this call are part of the Horizon Europe project HAMLET, which aims to make generative AI accessible to cultural organisations of all sizes. Closes 30 September 2026, 23:59 CEST. Free to apply.
One of the largest private funders of contemporary and new music in Europe, and it funds the organising side of the field rather than individual artists, which makes it directly usable by festivals. Eligible activity includes festivals, world premieres and revivals, composition commissions, events, academies and workshops, education projects, symposia and musicological publications. Experimental and contemporary sound programming is the core remit; this is not a classical-repertoire fund. There are two annual deadlines: 1 October at 14:00 CEST for projects starting the following year with decisions by year-end, and 1 March for projects starting in July or later with decisions by end of June. Grant sizes are not published, and the Foundation aims funding at artistic rather than overhead costs. Only the organising institution may apply and only legal entities qualify: cultural institutions, orchestra managers, festival organisers and ensembles. Self-applications and applications from individuals are explicitly refused. VOLUME LIMITS are strict and worth planning around: each institution may submit one application per deadline, may be supported for only one project per year, and may be supported for a maximum of three projects across three consecutive years.
The larger of The Hague's two municipal project bands and the appropriate route for an organisation running a festival or substantial public programme in the city. Awards range from EUR 10,000 to 30,000 against an annual ceiling of EUR 600,000 for the whole strand. THE CO-FINANCING REQUIREMENT IS SEVERE and is the single most important planning constraint: the municipal culture budget may fund at most 30 percent of the total project budget, so an applicant seeking EUR 30,000 must already have roughly EUR 70,000 secured or plausibly projected elsewhere. Only legal entities may apply; individuals and informal collectives must use Category A instead (EUR 2,000 to 10,000, 70 percent coverage ceiling, next window 1 to 15 September 2026). Professional arts and culture organisations running public projects in music, theatre, dance, film, literature, visual arts or combinations are eligible. The next window opens 1 October and closes at 17:00 on 15 October 2026. TIMING: the decision term is 12 weeks after the window closes, so an October 2026 application is decided around early January 2027 and activity should be scheduled from 2027 onward. Applications are handled through the municipality's subsidy system, which migrated to Easyfunders in April 2026. This scheme is independent of Stroom Den Haag. The underlying regulation runs to 31 December 2028.
The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) runs this residency with Videotage, a Hong Kong-based non-profit media arts institution specialising in the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of moving image and media art in all forms and languages. The Fund is recruiting one Netherlands-based designer, maker or observer working in digital culture to spend two or three months at Videotage's studio space in Hong Kong in 2027, conducting research, broadening their network, developing new work inspired by Hong Kong, and presenting their findings or completed works. The residency encourages crossovers and experimentation, giving the participant space to explore new methodologies, widen their creative practice and produce work that pushes the boundaries of digital culture, with a focus on social and urban dynamics. The 2027 edition takes the technological 'black box' phenomenon as its starting point and invites the resident to respond to that theme within the context of Videotage. ELIGIBILITY: you are an individual designer, maker or observer within the field of digital culture; you are established in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands); you are registered in the business register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) or another business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and you have had a professional practice in the creative industry for at least four years. NOT open to duos, collectives or cooperative ventures, nor to designers and makers who receive a grant during the work period under the Talent Development Grant Scheme, the Open Call Self-taught Designer or the Open Call Emerging Design Practices ABCSSS. Note that accepting this open call means you cannot apply to those schemes and open calls in 2027. FUNDING: EUR 5,000 for two months or EUR 6,500 for three months, covering travel, insurance, living expenses, compensation for time invested and material and transport costs; accommodation, studio use and Videotage's facilitation are covered separately by the Fund. Submit your proposal to the Creative Industries Fund NL by 21 October 2026, 16:00 CEST.
Perform Europe is the EU's dedicated cross-border touring scheme for the performing arts, run by a six-organisation consortium and co-funded by Creative Europe. It funds partnerships of at least three organisations from three different Creative Europe countries to tour a finished performing arts work in at least three countries, with an explicit emphasis on greener, more inclusive and more equitable touring practice. Eligible disciplines are circus, dance, outdoor arts, performance art, puppetry and theatre; LIVE MUSIC AND OPERA ARE EXCLUDED, and production costs for new creations are not covered since the work must already be finished before 1 March 2027. Applicants pick one of three grant tiers with no fixed criteria per tier, and may request up to EUR 5,000 in top-ups for accessibility and sustainability measures. Five percent of the total fund is ring-fenced for proposals involving Ukrainian partners or supporting the Ukrainian performing arts sector. All 41 Creative Europe countries are eligible, including Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine, but the UK is not. TIMING: applications close 22 October 2026 at 23:59 CEST, selected partnerships are announced in January 2027, and activity may only start from 1 March 2027. A Matchmaking Platform with over 2,300 registered professionals is available for finding partners before applying. CORE PRIORITY: each partnership must pick either diversity and inclusion or the fight against climate change as its core priority, and must also include measures addressing the other one; that choice has to run visibly through the whole application rather than sit in one section. WHO COUNTS AS A PARTNER: both organisations and individual professionals are eligible, so a partner can be an artist, collective, company, producer, presenter, venue, festival, residency, educational institution or NGO. Eligibility is decided by where you are legally based. The partnership appoints a lead partner who submits, signs and receives the grant. ELIGIBLE COSTS: artistic fees and salaries, travel, accommodation, subsistence, administration, reporting, communication, translation, surtitling, equipment transport, copyright fees, access and environmental measures, complementary activities and capacity building. Venue and equipment rental or purchase is capped at 5 percent of the requested grant, and preparation costs for presenting an existing work at 10 percent. PAYMENT: 60 percent after signing, 20 percent after the first narrative and financial report is approved, and the final 20 percent after completion and EU approval of Perform Europe's own final report. Top-ups are reimbursed only after the project ends and documentation is approved, so budget for the cash-flow gap. PRACTICAL: every partner must register for a Perform Europe account before submission and approval can take several working days, so do not leave that to the last week.
The Research Networking Day (RND) is an exchange platform for graduate or postgraduate students and independent artists conducting self-guided research traversing audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. The RND 2027 open call seeks innovative and critical submissions from all areas of study addressing the CTM 2027 festival theme 'Process...ing'. Nine selected candidates give short ten-minute presentations within different modules, linked by discussion rounds at the end of each module, offering an international platform to exchange with colleagues and researchers working on related ideas; research is also shared via audio/video after the festival on CTM's YouTube and SoundCloud channels. This edition takes place in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhoven, Universitat der Kunste Berlin (UdK), and Leuphana University Luneburg. CONDITIONS: presentations take place on-site within the festival's Discourse programme, in English; applications are for individual (solo) presentations only (no duos or groups). As in previous years, no funding is available for travel and accommodation; participants receive a CTM 2027 festival pass, a catered lunch on the day, and a group dinner. Entrance to the event is free. KEY DATES: application deadline 25 October 2026 at 23:59 CET; programme announced mid to late November 2026; RND 2027 event Sunday 24 January 2027; CTM 2027 runs 22 to 31 January 2027.
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.
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.
Leading Irish literary magazine that publishes and pays for creative nonfiction (as well as fiction and poetry), with a stated particular interest in promoting new and emerging writers. A clean, no-fee, internationally-open outlet for a standalone critical/creative-nonfiction piece. ELIGIBILITY: Irish and international writers; debut-friendly, no published-book requirement. Submissions are accepted in specific windows; the next nonfiction window runs Monday 9 November to Monday 23 November 2026 (closes 5pm Irish time) for the Summer 2027 issue.
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.
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.
Pink Screens, Brussels' queer film festival run by Genres d'a cote, accepts international films completed 2024 or later that were not previously submitted. Submissions are free via the festival's own form on pinkscreens.org (the FilmFreeway route may charge). No exact deadline is published, but the call is in its late phase, so submit soon.
TranScreen, Europe's largest transgender film festival, held in Amsterdam, accepts screeners on a rolling basis for its next edition. Films about trans and gender-diverse lives, international, no fee stated.