Environment & Sustainability

In 2024, three small islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Ustica in Italy, Alonissos in Greece and Gozo in Malta, will host a 7-day residency programme where artists will work with communities to raise ocean literacy and inspire a more environmentally friendly behaviour, through co-creation and cross fertilisation activities on-site and online. Applicants must be based in a European country.

Arctic Festival in Rovaniemi are looking for talented professional and amateur artists who are passionate about environmental art. This year they will invite seven teams to take part in the Snow-Ice Carving Competition from 22-28 January 2024, each team consisting of a maximum of two people.

Konsthall C invite applications for the residency programme Nordic Futures from artists and/or researchers who are passionate about exploring pressing issues connected to the climate crisis through an interconnected social justice lens. The residency is open to artists and artistic researchers based in the Nordic countries (excluding Sweden) as well as the Baltic region.

PROSPER is an international project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme exploring the theme of environmentally challenged regions of the Balkans by inviting artists, designers, researchers, cultural workers, and thinkers of all disciplines to participate in a residency from 1-30 April 2024 at Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia.

The EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) College of Humanities artist residency aims to foster transdisciplinary encounters and collaborations between artists and EPFL’s scientific community. Up to four artists will be selected for 3-month residencies at the EPFL in four sub-programmes: Open Transdisciplinary, Scientific Imaging, Environmental Transformation, and Explorations in Geometry, Computation, and Matter.

Incubator is an initiative calling for workshop proposals to equip artists with the hands-on knowledge required to successfully design, coordinate, and facilitate online workshops across six categories: Immigration, Migration, Mobility; Gender and Equity; Climate Action; Indigenous, Afro, and Caribbean Cosmogonies; Food Futures; Conversation Through Curation.

Arbola, the festival that celebrates the culture of trees, is launching a call for the selection of 3-6 projects by artists and cultural professionals from Creative Europe countries who are interested in exploring the poetic and symbolic power of trees. The residencies will take place at at Antartika Kultur Container, a space for culture and social activism located in the centre of Pamplona (Navarra).

The JRC makers-in-residence programme is an annual, short-term research-focused residence hosted by the JRC Makerspace, in the Joint Research Centre’s Ispra site, in Italy. The third edition of the programme is planned for the first quarter of 2024. The selected makers are invited to a maximum 10-days funded residency.

Salmastra is a cultural association for urban regeneration that aims to propose new imaginations and understandings of the sea. Salmastra is offering a two-month residency (mid-January – mid-March 2024) for practitioners who have a relation to the sea.

UNIDEE Residency Programs, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Kimonos Art Center have announced a joint open call for a four-week Research Residency between Cyprus and Italy for an international artist or researcher, who will spend two weeks in Paphos from 6-20 November 2023 and two weeks in Biella from 21 November - 5 December 2023. The residency is an opportunity to develop or continue their artistic research linked to a socially responsible transformation, and specifically to environmental and ecological issues.

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to a two-month artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania from 1 July - 29 August 2024. Applicants should reside in Creative Europe countries.