OPEN CALLS

Our Picks | Funding & Residency Opportunities to End 2025

December includes several opportunities relevant to cultural and creative professionals across Europe. This curated list presents five open calls offering residencies, funding, cross-border collaboration, and sector-specific support. Whether your work involves curation, artistic practice, publishing, or performing arts, these opportunities may help you plan and develop projects for 2026.
POLICY

Cultural Heritage, Education and Youth in the new Pact for the Mediterranean

The newly launched Pact for the Mediterranean will include a network of Mediterranean public-private agents of cultural heritage, a Mediterranean University and a Youth Parliamentary Assembly, among 100+ actions, to be specified by the end of March 2026.

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NO from Hungary for Access to Reliable News in European Democracy Shield
‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech
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Highlight your Region's work in Heritage
ECSA calls for transparent licensing agreements between Major Labels and AI companies
Vivalangues: When a Teacher Meets the Copyright Ecosystem of Publishing
First DSA Report Points to Key Systemic Risks on Large Online Platforms
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Public funding

A residency programme for textile practices in contemporary art in Prato, Italy

Lottozero | Textile Art Factory Residency

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Philanthropy

Curatorial Fellowship supports mid-career curators interested in contemporary photography

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation | Curatorial Fellowship 2026

Working Conditions

This is How We Work: Vital Source of Data, Incentive and Inspiration

Celebrating two years of our platform-tool 'This is How We Work', we asked the opinions of cultural professionals and policy-makers on our tool. They agreed that visiting us on a regular basis offered them a valuable resource presenting up-to-date information about how EU member states support and promote fair working conditions in the cultural and creative sectors.

Resilient by Training, Tired by Flexibility: Europe's Cultural Employment in 2024
Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists points at how governments could help sectors in crisis
The European Cultural Ecosystem Applauds the Culture Compass for Europe
Culture Compass for Europe spotlights Artistic Freedom and Fair Working Conditions
Greening

COP30: Landmark Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change

The Declaration adopted at COP30 sets international commitments to strengthen the accuracy and reliability of information as a prerequisite to climate change efforts and includes measures on media freedom and environmental journalists' and researchers' safety.

COP30: Expectations on establishing Culture in the Climate Change Agenda?
ERC Mapping: The New European Bauhaus Reimagines Urban Life
G20 Culture Ministers Discuss Heritage Restitution and Climate Change
Culture: the missing SDG, UNESCO’s landmark report is out!

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

Lights On 2026 training programme in Finland

Artificial Intelligence

Geert Lovink: The Internet's Descent into Dependency and the Illusion of AI

In this interview with Creatives Unite, Dutch Media theorist Geert Lovink critiques AI and digital platforms as creating toxic dependency and eroding genuine communication. He argues that algorithmic interactions concentrate power, transforming the internet from an empowering tool to a system of addiction and control.

ECSA calls for transparent licensing agreements between Major Labels and AI companies
‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech
Commission launches Whistleblower Tool for AI Act
First DSA Report Points to Key Systemic Risks on Large Online Platforms

Ukraine Crisis

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Creative Europe Funding for Four Ukrainian - European collaboration projects

From Insight to Impact: Powering Quality Journalism with Audience Data

International exchange programme for Ukrainian professionals in Matera

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