OPEN CALLS

Our Picks | Funding and Residencies This October

Creatives Unite October list of open calls gathers programmes supporting emerging artists, cultural organisations, and creative professionals. With opportunities ranging from unrestricted artist grants and organisational funding to fellowships and cross-border residencies, this month’s selection supports professional growth, experimentation, and exchange across disciplines.
FREEDOM, FAIR PAY, INNOVATION

31 Cultural & Creative Sector Organizations Draft A Roadmap for European Strategy

CAE and 30 CCS representatives propose Blueprint discussion paper ahead of the Commission's Culture Compass, aiming at strengthening the cultural ecosystem as a whole. Artistic freedom and working conditions are the top two out of ten priorities, AgoraEU is at the spotlight and instrumentalization of culture, highlighted among major challenges. Follow Blueprint's online presentation on 2 October. 

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Halaqat 2026: Grants for Artistic and Cultural Practices
Culture: the missing SDG, UNESCO’s landmark report is out!
MONDIACULT Ministers adopted Declaration for Culture as a Sustainable Development Goal!
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Inclusive Narratives in the Art Museum: Call for Papers
Join the Culture for Resilience Forum 2025 in Varde
Culture as Rights, Peace and Wisdom in UNESCO MONDIACULT 2025
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Philanthropy

An intergenerational project brings together established and emerging Paper Art artists 

Stihl Waiblingen Gallery | Drawing and Paper Art Scholarship

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Public funding

Culture Moves Europe supports artists and cultural professionals who want to travel and carry out a project in another country 

Culture Moves Europe | Call for individual mobility 2025-2026

Working Conditions

Ireland: Basic Income for Artists Boosts Creativity and Wellbeing

A two-year impact assessment of Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme has revealed significant positive impacts in the life and work of artists. The weekly €325 payment has boosted creative practice and improved the wellbeing of recipients.

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?
Rehearsal Time Matters to Fair Pay in Performing Arts in Malta
New Report Shows Progress on Access to Social Protection for Artists
Belgium: Solidarity action with Gazan journalists unites 400 in urgent call for EU action
Greening

Have your Say on New European Bauhaus!

The European Commission seeks input on how to strengthen NEB and transform neighbourhoods to 'beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive' spaces. Feedback is asked ahead of a Communication and a proposal for a Council Recommendation in December 2025. Voice your thoughts until 17 October.

Routes of Belonging: Mapping Europe's Living Heritage
European Heritage Days 2025: Architectural Heritage celebrations in September
Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
Have your say on how to make housing more affordable

Inclusion

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Filmmakers' pledge to boycott Israeli institutions complicit in genocide

Matej Drlička: We need a European Artistic Freedom Act

Documenta 16 announced an all-women Artistic Team

Bending the Rule of Law: Slovakia's Anti-Corruption Reforms Under Scrutiny by CoE

Artificial Intelligence

New EU AI Rules: What You Need to Know And Why The Ecosystem Objects To Them

The EU's AI Act requires transparency and copyright compliance for AI models, as well as risk assessments. Obligations are defined by computational power thresholds, with the aim of balancing innovation with the mitigation of systemic risks. However, stakeholders are disappointed.

2025 Strategic Foresight Report: AI aligned with dignity, fairness and solidarity?
European Creative Skills Week 2025: Create. Transform. Regenerate!
AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test − and it’s changing our relationship with art
Movement signatures: how we move, gesture and use facial expressions could be as unique as a fingerprint

Ukraine Crisis

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New EU Report: Ukraine Heritage Fund Needs $524 Billion for Restoration

From Insight to Impact: Powering Quality Journalism with Audience Data

International exchange programme for Ukrainian professionals in Matera

Classical ballet returns to Kharkiv under the war's ruins