Environment & Sustainability

The project ‘RENMUS - Renewable Music - V4 Composers for Sustainability’ invites composers from the Visegrad Group countries to apply for commissions to create new work that will be performed at four different concerts (in Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest). Selected composers will also join a programme of workshops and masterclasses from June – September 2024.

Rewilding Cultures is a Creative Europe collaboration project aiming to reposition the wild within the field of art practices connecting to science and technology. This open call is for a Rewilding Cultures residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Finland. The residency will run for two weeks within winter 2023 – spring 2024. Artists and artist groups in all stages of their careers are welcome to apply.

BIRCA Baltic Sea will invite 6 performing artists placed around the Baltic Sea (Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) to a joint residency of 2 weeks taking place 25 September – 8 October 2023. The residency seeks to expand on participants’ current practice with a focus on the health of the planet. The aim is to create new solo, shared and collaborative performance works, with a focus on exchange and collaboration.

Bioart Society’s North Escaping residency for 2023–2024 will take place at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, under the umbrella of the Ars Bioarctica residency programme. Four fully funded month-long residencies are offered for October 2023 – April 2024. Artists and artist groups based in the Nordic and Baltic countries, excluding Finland, are welcome to apply.

The Leonardo Imagination Fellowship is a virtual, global programme that will see fellows develop experimental media projects exploring diverse aspects of Planetary Health Futures. Up to 3 virtual fellowships will run over 9 months from August 2023 through to April 2024.

Art-driven innovation for digital and green transition in European Regions (GRIN) is a STARTS regional centres preparatory action that aims to develop effective solutions for the digital and ecological transition in Europe, with a focus on Upper Austria, Emilia-Romagna, Aveiro, Porto District, and North Ostrobothnia.

The Global Cultural Relations Programme (GCRP) is a unique opportunity to create meaningful connections and discuss cross-cultural collaborations. This year both cultural and creative professionals and those working in the field of climate change and environmental issues are invited to apply. The GCRP will take place in Madrid, Spain from 10-13 October 2023.

Rewilding Cultures (RC) is a Creative Europe collaboration project which wants to reposition the wild within the field of art practices connecting to science and technology. Artists, researchers and technologists can apply for mobility or mobility-related work support with destinations beyond the RC network partners.

Poland’s National Institute of Music and Dance has announced the second call for applications for the ‘Dancing Together, Again!’ creative residency project implemented under the Creative Europe programme. The second residency will take place in Rijeka, Croatia, between 3-24 September 2023. Applications are open to artists, curators and researchers in the dance field.

The Prince Claus Mentorship Award will bring together 12 emerging artists and cultural practitioners (8-15 years of relevant professional experience) for a year-long programme aimed at accelerating engaged cultural practices and fostering leadership at the intersection of arts and environmentalism. Applicants must be individuals living and working in one of Prince Claus Fund’s working countries.

Voices of Culture, the platform for dialogue offered to civil society by the European Commission, is inviting interested organisations from EU member states to apply to participate in the upcoming topic on Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries driving Green Transition and facing the Energy Crisis. Successful applicants will be invited to a brainstorming meeting in the European Capital of Culture 2024, Tartu in Estonia, on 15 and 16 June 2023.

Hand to Hand is a European cooperation project which aims to explore the issue of sustainability through learning and experiential spaces of innovation and research for circus artists. 16 circus artists will be selected to participate in an introduction workshop in Châlons en Champagne on 4-6 July 2023, with 8 then following a full programme of residencies in Croatia, Denmark, France and Portugal from March 2023 to July 2025.