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European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA

The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA is an initiative of the European Festivals Association that offers emerging artists a platform to develop their career on an international level through festivals.

What is EFFEA?

Festivals are often the discoverers of not-yet-known talents, their originality and innovation, as well as their risk-taking endeavours. These festivals serve and define themselves as the guardians and the intermediate springboard for artists in all artistic disciplines. In this way, the European Festivals Fund for emerging artists – EFFEA, an initiative of the European Festivals Association, is a system built for festivals to support and offer them and their emerging artists a platform to develop their careers on an international level. At the same time, it is an invitation for co-operation between festivals across borders. The EFFEA is the next step in a movement of festivals in Europe that recognise themselves and commit to working together at a European level. It builds on the preparatory action called EFFE: Europe for Festivals Festivals for Europe.

EFFEA Call#2 closed on 19 June 2023. The EFFEA Jury will now review all the applications received from festivals to support emerging artists. The results will be announced in August 2023. Stay tuned!


Main Objectives

  • To offer emerging artists more opportunities to present their work and develop their career on an international level
  • To offer cooperation opportunities for festivals to work cross border on the topic of emerging artists
  • To offer audiences new and surprising encounters with emerging artists in their towns and cities through the platforms of their festivals


Who will benefit from this Fund?

Festivals
How? Network and collaboration between Festivals; new programmes and new artists for Festivals; financial support to promote the artists at a European level.

Emerging Artists who are proposed by the festivals
How? Research; network (of programmers and of local artists in different countries); residencies/ workshops/ masterclasses; European visibility; capacity building; presentation in different festivals in different countries.

Audiences
How? Access to new talents and artists; access to new arts and repertoire; access to diverse and interdisciplinary works.

News

  1. EFFEA stories: SABIR PROJECT
    20-09-23

    EFFEA stories: SABIR PROJECT

    Residency of Sabir Project Collective, presented ...

  2. EFFEA Call#2: Intake Seminar
    15-09-23

    EFFEA Call#2: Intake Seminar

    The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA Intake Seminar was held on Tuesday, 12 September. The f...

  3. EFFEA stories: Ermoupolis Psychogeographic Guide
    14-09-23

    EFFEA stories: Ermoupolis Psychogeographic Guide

    Residency of Ban Lei, presented by Eye’s Walk Digital Festival in partnership with PASSAGE·Festival & LEME - Cir...

  4. EFFEA stories: Performing Reflection
    07-09-23

    EFFEA stories: Performing Reflection

    Residency of Ivar Roban Križić, presented by Music Biennale Zagreb in partnership with 180° - Laboratory for Innovative Art Festiv...

  5. EFFEA stories: GAIA
    28-08-23

    EFFEA stories: GAIA

    Residency of ErosAntEros, presented by POLIS Teatro Festival in partnership with FIAT - Festival of International Alternative Theatre ...

  6. EFFEA Call#2: Results
    23-08-23

    EFFEA Call#2: Results

    The results of the second call of EFFEA, the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, are now in: 50 residencies will be supporte...

  7. EFFEA Stories: The woman in the baroque music
    16-08-23

    EFFEA Stories: The woman in the baroque music

    Residency of The Ministers of Pastime, presented by Festival Jordi Savall in partnership with Cistermúsica - Alcobaç...

  8. EFFEA Stories: Slow steps have ears
    08-08-23

    EFFEA Stories: Slow steps have ears

    Residency of Dávid Somló, presented by PLACCC Festival in partnership with Sofia Underground International Performance A...

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