The next EFFEA Call will be announced in the second half of 2025 and will support residencies occurring in 2026. More details will follow. To stay updated, please visit the website news section and Facebook page regularly. We also encourage you to join the EFFEA Facebook Community, a platform where you can connect with fellow artists and festival organisers
Which information you need to provide
- Information about the leading festival/ organisation
- Information regarding the proposed emerging artist, including a brief biography and links to audiovisual content
- Information about the partner festivals
- Motivation for engaging the artist and consortium in the residency programme
- Letter of intent with the emerging artist (template provided)
- Letter of intent with the partner festivals (template provided)
- Detailed budget form (template provided)
Eligible countries
Festivals and artists should have their official address in one of the following eligible countries:
EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden.
Creative Europe countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, and Ukraine.
Other included countries: Israel, Moldova, Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Please note: Israel, Moldova, Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, and the UK can only apply as partners and not as leading festivals. Artists from these countries can be proposed.
Eligible disciplines
Festivals and artists work in one or more of the following artistic disciplines: Architecture, Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Circus, Design/ Applied arts, Digital arts, Film, Folklore and folk arts, Heritage, Interdisciplinary, Literature, Music, Opera, Street Art, Theatre, Photography/ Video, Sculpture, Painting.