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Data Conversations for Impact are looking for 10 creative professionals under the age of 30 to spend 10 days in Pisa, Italy (1–10 October 2026), experimenting with a question that sits at the heart of contemporary cultural practice: How do you get to know your audience without reducing them to a number?

Decoratelier and workspacebrussels are jointly launching an open call aimed at artists and collectives with a scenographic practice who wish to experiment and deepen their practice within the context of Decoratelier.

Rural Labs is a pilot project by Cáceres 2031 that connects rural Extremadura with European and international artists through artistic residencies rooted in the territory, which will take place between July and November 2026.

.ART Award 2026 is a new global art prize celebrating how art is made, open to artists worldwide, working in any medium or art form.

Pier-2 Artist-in-Residence Programme (PAIR) 2027 welcomes artists whose practice engages with experimental approaches, cross-disciplinary work, and place-based research from Taiwan and abroad.

The A4 Residency Art Center International Residency Programme is calling for applications from international artists from any field for a residency of no less than eight weeks in 2027 in Chengdu, China.

MudTronics is a collaborative competition that brings together bio, tech, and art/design to explore what we can do with microbial fuel cells. Participants experiment with turning mud, wastewater and microbes into power, creating prototypes that are playful, critical, and ecologically grounded. The programme runs from June to September 2026.

Gasworks is calling for applications from early-career artists based in the Caribbean. The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 6 January – 24 March 2027.

CreArt is calling for applications from international artists for a 5-week residency in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Artists will work in a local school to act as a creative mentor for a group of 20+ students.

Serpentine Arts Technologies launches the inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence. The inaugural Fellowship is a six-month, low-residency programme (September 2026–March 2027) supporting individual practitioners and broader ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies.

MedSEA – Socially Engaged Arts in the Mediterranean Area, a European cooperation project, launches an open call addressed to emerging artists and cultural professionals working — or wishing to work — with participatory and socially engaged artistic practices.

The applications for the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures’ Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts 2026-27 are now open and are looking to select up to seven early career scholars.