Southern Europe

The Western Balkans Fund is pleased to announce the launch of the Call for Participants for the first-ever Regional Academy on Dialogue and Culture of Cooperation, which will take place in Tirana, Albania, from 13 to 20 September 2026.

One of the projects featured in the exhibition will be developed through the Earthrise 26 Residency, from 5 October to 3 December 2026, a unique opportunity for an under 35 international designer to create and experiment within an interdisciplinary context.

Re:Create Europe invites emerging artists and cultural practitioners to engage with questions of resistance, resilience, and the transformation of cultural policies through international residency programmes, an accompanying webinar series and digital mapping.

This open call is intended for the selection of artistic projects to be included in the programme of Imaginarius 2027, a festival of performing arts in public space 21–23 May 2027 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

The CitiObs project together with the Distributed Design Platform invites artists, designers, makers, and creative practitioners to submit proposals to collaborate with the project as external service providers.

The Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa announces a call for applications to assign two young artists a space in Venice (at Palazzo Carminati in San Stae) where they can study and work for a period of five weeks: 14 September – 19 October 2026.

This open call invites three contemporary circus artists or collectives based in Europe who are in the early to mid-stage of a new creation. Selected projects will participate in a transnational residency programme consisting of three 10-day residencies in Croatia, Germany, and the Netherlands between November 2026 and July 2027.

Fondazione Campania Welfare is launching the second round of OASis In the Park. The residency is based at Parco San Laise, a former NATO base in Bagnoli, Naples, currently undergoing a gradual process of social and cultural regeneration.

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.

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.