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. ECF's mobility programme is called STEP beyond.
Our mobility fund stimulates and supports cross-cultural creative projects in a wider Europe, enabling artists and cultural workers to collaborate, exchange, network and explore unfamiliar ground and different ways of working.
Who can apply? Individual artists, cultural operators, cultural researchers and cultural writers (art critics and cultural journalists, etc) travelling to/from EU countries to/from the European Neighbourhood. In collaboration with the Arts and Culture Network Programme of the Open Society Institute, ECF's STEP beyond also supports travel to/from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) as well as Turkey. For more details, please read carefully the guidelines and the Frequently Asked Questions. Application details below.
Next Deadline: You can apply at any time of year, but make sure that you do so AT LEAST 8 weeks before the actual travel date.
Maximum grant: There is no specific maximum, but grantees get on average between €300 and €700.
Results from previous selection rounds: All STEP grantees are registered on Rhiz.eu, where they upload their profiles and travel stories, sharing these with a larger social network. You can read their travel stories here.
Apply here.
Note: All travel grants to/from the countries of South Caucasus and Turkey are jointly funded by OSI and the ECF. ECF's STEP beyond manages the application and the granting procedures.