France

The Regional Department for Cultural affairs of the Île-de-France region, the TRAM network, and the Cité internationale des arts have developed Contours, a research-based residency programme aimed at curators and/or art critics working and residing outside of France and its overseas departments, within the European Union

In a context of cultural solidarity in the southern Mediterranean region, this project aims to study and analyse the role and contribution of creative hubs in the five countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon) to the cultural, social, ecological and economic transformations taking place in the region.

KADIST is seeking a creative thinker and curator for the inaugural edition of a Curatorial Fellowship at KADIST, based in Paris.

As part of the Rawabet project, the CNCM VOCE is launching a call for residencies open to musicians, composers, artists and companies from the Arab region with a musical project who have been established in a European country between 2015 and the present day. The residency takes place at Pigna (Corsica) in the first quarter of 2026 for a period of 10 days.

LAUDS Factories invites artists/creative people and technology providers to submit proposals for Experiments aimed at exploring and working with LAUDS factories to enhance their usability and uptake, while answering to pressing challenges in the mobility, energy and agriculture/food production sectors.

As part of the CreArt network, the City of Clermont-Ferrand in France is organising a two-month residency for three visual artists at Chalet Lecoq, from 13 October to 15 December 2025. It will select two artists from the CreArt network and one from Clermont-Ferrand.

Entrellaç – Entrelacs promotes multimedia artistic creation and supports digital media through a professional programme that includes a training and co-creation meeting, a nomadic artist residency, and a dissemination programme.

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month 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.

Awarded every two years, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award (formerly known as HCB Award) supports a photographer in the realisation or pursuit of an ambitious project.