Mobility
Mobility is the life-blood of cultural cooperation. 
Artists and cultural workers need to move easily across borders to meet their international peers, exchange views, cooperate, and influence one another.
Our mobility fund STEP beyond stimulates and supports cross-cultural creative projects, enabling artists and cultural workers to:
- Explore unfamiliar ground and different ways of working
- Collaborate and exchange
- Network
We support mobility across all European countries, EU and non-EU. This support extends to the South Caucasus countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan thanks to co-funding by the Open Society Institute in Budapest.
Read about how to apply here.
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Jump in! A cultural work placement scheme
This brand-new work placement scheme should see ethnic minorities better represented in cultural organisations across the Netherlands. Jump in! will give individuals and organisations a positive experience of cultural diversity, with host organisations providing in-kind support to individuals on placement.
The scheme, launched in April 2008, offers individuals the chance to develop professionally and enables organisations to create direct communication channels with artists and cultural entrepreneurs from diverse communities.
Jump in! was set up by the ECF along with Network CS and Kunstenaars &CO.
If you would like to know more about Jump in!
Contact at ECF
Programme Officer Susanne Mors or phone +31 (0)20 5733868
Documents available
Read the background paper
Read the flyer
We also stimulate creative mobility through our support for the Roberto Cimetta Fund, which is active in the Mediterranean region, and for the website on-the-move, which provides information about international activities, projects and funding in the performing arts.