Currently 3 active paid grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in Switzerland, 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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Schlossmediale, the international festival of early music, new music and audiovisual art at Werdenberg Castle in the canton of St. Gallen, invites three solo artists to a five-week residency from 17 May to 27 June 2027. The works developed on site are shown in the castle during the 14th festival edition (17-26 June 2027). The 2027 theme is KLATSCH! (Rumour-Impact): sound and rumour, applause and gossip, oral tradition, collective memory, and the ways every era spreads its information. MEDIUMS: sound art, sound studies, audiovisual art, experimental instrument building, visual art, installation, sculpture, land art and performance; sound installations without a visual dimension are not considered. SUPPORT: CHF 4,000 grant, CHF 1,000 for travel, transport and meals, up to CHF 1,000 for materials, and accommodation in a shared house in Werdenberg (individual rooms, shared kitchen and living areas). ELIGIBILITY: solo artists with professional experience (no groups or duos) who can live and work on site for the full period and complete a finished, functional work by the festival opening; residents present their work on castle tours and attend the whole festival. Working space at the castle is limited and no studios are provided. HOW TO APPLY: exclusively online via the application portal linked from the open-call page. DEADLINE: 18 October 2026.
The Basel House of Film, run by the Verein Filmhaus Basel und Umgebung, offers a three month residency for emerging artists working in film and television. Residents receive housing at the Filmhaus in the Basel old town plus a stipend to cover travel and living costs. There is no obligation to produce work, and residents can use the open schedule to write a script, prepare a film, draw storyboards, or edit. The facility includes a clubhouse, meeting room, office space, a small cinema with VR equipment, and an editing and grading suite. The program targets up and coming filmmakers, and both national and international applicants are welcome. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through the online form, followed by a CV, motivation letter, and portfolio sent to the residency email.
The microagi Research Fellowship (Cohort 01) provides researchers with frontier-lab resources and the freedom to work on hard problems in robotics, embodied AI, and the systems around them. Fellows work in residence for six months at microagi's offices in Munich or Zurich. AMOUNT: up to $2,000,000 in compute; $10,000/month stipend. RESEARCH AREAS: (1) Long Horizon Dexterous Manipulation -- end-to-end models for complex multi-stage tasks with dexterous hands, natural language instruction following, memory across long task sequences, fine-grained physical control in unstructured environments; (2) Cross Embodiment Learning; (3) On Device Physical Intelligence; (4) Safe and Reliable Deployment. microagi's model is to deploy embodied intelligence into physical-world operations and turn what it learns there into compounding research. REFERRAL: $10,000 bonus for referring a candidate who is accepted into the cohort. No application deadline publicly stated as of June 2026 -- one cohort only, apply as soon as possible via https://www.microagi.ai/fellowship.