FAQ

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FestivalFinder.eu is an online search tool for audiences to discover all arts festivals, from music to theatre, streets arts to dance, literature, etc. in 45 countries in Europe near and far. FestivalFinder.eu serves as a tool to explore the other partners before applying for EFFEA.

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Results announcement: January 2023

Publication of the 50 selected artists and festivals on the EFFEA platform: Jan/Feb 2023

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The individuals involved as artist should have a nationality of or a residence address in one of the eligible countries.

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A festival can apply for one project as a leading festival and apply for multiple grants as a partner festival in other projects. An artist can be supported by maximum one EFFEA grant.

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Yes, both the leading festival and the partner festivals need to register on FestivalFinder.eu.

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Even if holding the EFFE Label can be an added value it is not mandatory. Festivals only need to register on FestivalFinder.eu.

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The start and end date of the residency must fall within the grant period. This means that the start date of the residence must be earliest 1 February 2023 and the end date of the residence must be latest 31 December 2023. The applicants are free to start earlier or end later as long as the costs related to the extension is not included in the budget submitted to EFFEA.

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1. The leading festival signs the letter of intent with two other partner festivals.
2. The leading festival signs the letter of intent with the artist/collective/group.

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There is no age limitation for the artists in any of the two categories

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The artist can be an individual artist, a collective of artists, an artist(s) company, or an artist’s ensemble.

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Online seminars with the selected artists and festival programmers

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Category one “Discovery”: a presenter from (minimum) 2 partner festivals will come to the leading festival place to work with the artist or the artist can go to the 2 partner festivals.
Category two “Springboard”: artist needs to present their work in 3 stages in Europe (the leading and two other partners)

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Yes, you can, as long as the amount that you invest in the residency of the artist is minimum 8.800/16.500€

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The amount that you must add from your own budget is 20% of the grant value. Half of it is your minimum own investment in the residency of your artist and the other half is your contribution to the overall project.

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The grant that EFA receives from the EC only covers 80% of the total budget. The remaining 20% is partly funded by EFA and its partners and partly by the selected applicants.

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70% of the grant amount (5.600/10.500€) will be paid within 2 weeks after the signing of the agreement with EFA 20% of the grant amount (1.600/3.000€) will be paid latest in December 2023.
10% won’t be paid as it corresponds to your contribution to the overall project

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If the network project meets the requirements of this call, it should be perfectly possible.

 

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Co-funding of 20% from the festival side is mandatory.

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The artist does not need to be part of a festival but needs to establish a collaboration with at least 3 different festivals to apply for the EFFEA Grant.
Artists can find festivals to create a partnership with on FestivalFinder.eu

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Yes, this is possible.

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Theatres and foundations are also eligible for the funding if they are organising a festival.

The definition of a festival is:

• A festival has its primary focus on the development, presentation and/or participation in arts and culture.
• A festival occurs in a defined area/region and a defined period of time.
• A festival exists for at least one edition.

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Artists can find festivals to create a partnership on FestivalFinder.eu

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The distribution of the budget is up to the leading festival in agreement with the 2 other festivals. The partnership will have to agree on the division of the budget. There is no percentage given in relation to the division of it. It must show how the artist is supported in the best way. This can be very different project by project .

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Yes. 

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Yes and having more partners can be an additional asset.

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If the artist in residence presents the work/work in progress only at the leading festival, the partner-festivals for the discovery category are present for the workshop and as mentors

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There is no limit for the residency time. It can be a couple of days, weeks, months.  The start and end date of the residency must fall within the grant period. This means that the start date of the residence must be 1 February 2023 at the earliest and the end date of the residence must be no later than 31 December 2023. The applicants are free to start earlier or end later as long as the costs related to the extension are not included in the budget submitted to EFFEA.

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The 2 platforms FestivalFinder.eu and EFFEA are not linked at this moment. Your login on FestivalFinder.eu can not be used for EFFEA.

- On FestivalFinder.eu you already have an account or you create an account when creating for the first time your festival edition.
- On EFFEA you apply with the application form - the account is automatically created when you apply. 

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Co-funding of 20% from the festival side is mandatory but this contribution should be agreed upon by the three festivals composing the EFFEA Partnership.

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Yes, the leading festival is responsible for the financial report but a letter of intent at the call level and a partnership contract will be signed between the different festivals if you are selected 

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Each project is co-funded with 20% of the grant value own contribution.

This is divided into:

• 800 Euro (category 1) or 1500 Euro (category 2) (=10% of the grant) to EFFEA for EFFEA Intake and Outtake Seminar*, networking, communication and promotion of the artist and their festivals.

and

• at least 800 Euro (category 1) or 1500 Euro (category 2) own contribution (=10% of the EFFEA Grant) to the project.