This Cultural Mobility Funding Guide emerges as a direct outcome of On the Move’s international research-action project examining the situation of at-risk and displaced artists and culture professionals. Over the course of a year, this project has systematically identified policies and best practices across EU Member States, the United Kingdom, and the United States that foster the professional development of displaced artists. This guide specifically provides a comprehensive overview of funding bodies and programmes dedicated to supporting at-risk and displaced artists and cultural professionals, as well as the organisations designing initiatives tailored to this community.
This Cultural Mobility Funding Guide should also provide inspiration for those responsible for public policies and mobility funds at local, regional, national and European level, as well as private donors and mobility stakeholders at large. Reinforcing awareness of the remaining obstacles that stand in the way of equal access to international opportunities, it can suggest areas that should be financed more fairly and efficiently in order to ensure more sustainable support for cross-border cultural collaboration.
This guide lists national, regional and international resources, both public and private. Only regular opportunities accessible online are listed, where it is possible to learn more about the offerings of the grants. This guide lists opportunities, resources and information that is largely relevant for artists and cultural practitioners who are in need of emergency and urgent assistance.
In addition to emergency relief, this guide highlights various short-term relocation assistance programmes that are available internationally and nationally. The guide also includes additional information on platforms and resources that engage with issues of transnational cultural mobility, artistic freedom, and artist and cultural rights advocacy.
Editor: Yohann Floch
Contributors: Manojna Yeluri, Yohann Floch
English proofreading: John Ellingsworth
Graphic design and layout: Marine Domec
Co-funded by: European Union and the French Ministry of Culture