Mediterranean

IdraConnect is calling for applications from international programmers to attend the Wonderland Festival (Brescia, Italy), from 18 to 20 November 2025, to see the presentation of Italian artists in contemporary performing arts without barriers of genre.

Low-Tech Projection Lab is a collaborative residency exploring analogue projection and low-tech visual creation from 14 September to 4 October 2026.

Reggio Parma Festival is calling for applications from creative teams and individual professionals, of any nationality and not over 35 years old, to participate in Gradus, a project aimed at fostering sharing/cross-fertilisation amongst generations of knowledge boosting creative development of new shows.

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.

CrafTopia Creative Hub is calling for five visual artists to apply to the 30-day artist residency hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece.

.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.

KUTE project is calling for choreographers who will be offered the opportunity to create a new project with the dancers of SPECIFIC training centre for contemporary dancers, directed by Loris Petrillo.

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.

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 Absa L’Atelier competition, through its prizes, supports visual artists in growing their brand and in equipping them with the relevant skills needed to build their careers.

Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) is a Creative Europe Cooperation project tackling socio-ecological challenges through cross-disciplinary research and context-specific artistic interventions.

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10 months fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.