Roberto Cimetta Fund | Mobility Grands | call for Applications

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Applications are open until 30 December 2022.


December 05, 2022
The Roberto Cimetta Fund opens its general fund for cultural and artistic mobility in the southern Mediterranean countries.

Responding to the ever-strong need for artists and cultural professionals to have access to mobility, the Roberto Cimetta Fund issues mobility grants and offers support and training programs related to mobility.

Aiming at promoting inclusive mobility, the Roberto Cimetta Fund gives priority to candidates with little access to mobility and/or who are poorly inserted into the international cultural circuits. This call for applications for a travel grant is thus dedicated to women artists and cultural professionals from the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, who are willing to travel within the southern Mediterranean region for south-south mobility (North Africa and the Middle East).

The call is open until December 30, 2022, to all applicants who meet the following eligibility criteria.
  • The application must be submitted by an individual and not by an organisation. The grants are dedicated to individuals only.
  • Aiming at promoting inclusive mobility, this call is addressed to artists and cultural operators, who, regardless of their nationality, are based in southern Mediterranean countries and wish to travel to the Southern Mediterranean countries (North Africa and Middle East).
  • this call is dedicated to women artists and cultural professionals only.
  • There is no age limit.
  • The call is addressed to artists (performers, creators, educators) or professionals in the cultural sector (organizers, administrators, project managers) ;
  • The dates of mobility are eligible from the opening of the call. If the applicant wishes to travel before the results are released, she is willing to take the risk of purchasing her ticket without knowing if her application will be accepted. The mobility will have to be done before September 2023.
  •  The purpose of the mobility must be one of the following:
  1. preparation of a professional level project;
  2. participation in a research or creation residency;
  3. the presence at a meeting of artists or professionals with the objective of networking between cultural, artistic and development actors;
  4. artistic and professional training/education (internships, masterclasses, exchanges, study trips) or participation as a speaker or a trainer;
  5. attendance at debates, conferences, seminars.
  •  The application must refer to an artistic discipline or a cultural initiative :
  1. management, mediation, cultural policy;
  2. contemporary performing arts: theater, dance, music, circus and street arts, puppet theater;
  3. visual arts, photography, film and digital arts;
  4. writing, dramaturgy, storytelling, poetry;
  5. transdisciplinary projects.
Travel Grands:
A lump sum will be awarded to the winners: between 500€ and 700€ per grant, allowing cover (at least partially) the costs related to mobility in general: tickets, visas, accommodation, etc. This call will deliver between 12 and 20 grants. Grants will be allocated after the trip, upon presentation of supporting documents, a written report, and visuals.

Mobility must contribute directly or indirectly to local and Mediterranean cultural development from a sustainable perspective.

More infromation on how to apply here