Overview ECF funding & awards
Funding possibilities for individuals:
- `Step Beyond´
Mobility grants for artists, cultural operators, journalists, translators and researchers travelling within wider Europe, including Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Read more...
- The ECF co-funded `Roberto Cimetta´ Fund
Travel grants for artists in the Mediterranean Region. These cover travel and visa costs for trips such as attending professional cultural network meetings, workshops, artist's residences, festival, symposiums etc. Read more...
- Milena Jesenka Fellowship programme
Grants for European journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media to give them time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a European topic of their choice. Read more...
Funding possibilities for small to medium-sized independent cultural organizations:
- ECF Grants programme
For cross border cultural cooperation in the EU and Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, Ukraine and Zwitserland. NGOs from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia are also eligible if these work together with partners from countries as listed above. Read more...
- Balkan incentive fund for culture
Special funding opportunities are offered to artistic and cultural organizations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Kosovo/a, Montenegro and Serbia. Read more...
- EPIM Grants - The ECF is part of a consortium of foundations that has set up EPIM (European Programme for Integration and Migration). EPIM aims at strengthening the role played by NGOs active on migration and integration issues. EPIM advocates for a strong European agenda that benefits migrants and host communities, in both sending and receiving countries. Now, EPIM launches of call for project-proposals in 2008. EPIM seeks to improve the lives of regular and undocumented migrants through a three year grants programme. Read more...
Awards
- The ECF Princess Margriet Award
The award will highlight outstanding contributions by individuals and organisations across Europe, while demonstrating that artistic encounter and creativity are vital elements of cultural diversity. It is a fitting tribute to the work of the ECF's outgoing President, HRH Princess Margriet of The Netherlands, who was at the ECF's helm for 24 years. Read more... - Cultural Policy Research Award (CPR Award)
competition for young scholars and PhD students under the age of 35. The CPR Award aims to stimulate academic research in the field of cultural policy, and places emphasis on the implications of EU enlargement for EU members. Read more... - Prix Europa
is an annual competition for the best European radio, television and internet programmes. It was set up by the ECF and the Council of Europe. Prix Europa invites the makers and producers of the best European television-, radio- and Internet productions to Berlin for a week of festival and competition. Read more...