The next EFFEA Call will be launched on 1 September 2025 and will support residencies taking place throughout 2026.
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Information you will need to provide
- Details of the lead festival (or organisation/venue/foundation, if it organises a festival)
- Profile of the proposed emerging artist, including a short biography and links to relevant audiovisual material
- Information about the partner festivals involved in the residency
- Motivation for involving the selected artist and the consortium in the residency programme
- Letter of intent between the lead festival and the emerging artist (template provided)
- Letter of intent between the partner festivals (template provided)
- Detailed budget proposal (template provided)
Eligible countries
Festivals and artists should have their official address in one of the following eligible countries:
EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden.
Creative Europe countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, and Ukraine.
Other included countries: Israel, Moldova, Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Please note: Israel, Moldova, Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, and the UK can only apply as partners and not as leading festivals. Artists from these countries can be proposed.
Eligible disciplines
Festivals and artists work in one or more of the following artistic disciplines: Architecture, Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Circus, Design/ Applied arts, Digital arts, Film, Folklore and folk arts, Heritage, Interdisciplinary, Literature, Music, Opera, Street Art, Theatre, Photography/ Video, Sculpture, Painting.