OPEN CALLS

Our Picks | Open call highlights for summer 2026

Our curated list of open calls arrived just in time for those who wish to apply for new opportunities before the summer vacation. This month's open calls support crafts, performing arts, architecture, cultural heritage, curatorial research, artistic mobility, and sustainable fashion across Europe.
INTERVIEW

"If AI is here, it should be a public resource": a conversation with Heritiana Ranaivoson

Economist Heritiana Ranaivoson argues that generative AI—trained on creators’ work without consent—should be treated as a public resource, urging Europe to strengthen regulation and industrial policy at the same time to protect its cultural and creative sectors.

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The Commission opens consultation on housing as Europe's building crisis deepens
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Perform Europe Launches €1.4 Million Open Call for Touring Projects
Attend a free online course on cultural mediation projects
Digital Skills Champions Awarded As Report Warns of 2030 Shortfall In Critical Categories
From Soundwave to Stage: When AI co-creation needs time, not just ideas
The Islamic legacy built into Gaudí’s most famous designs
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Residency programme in France for curators and art critics

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Cité internationale des arts | Residency programme for curators and art critics

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Perform Europe reimagines international touring  with a €1.4 million in funding for performing arts projects

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Perform Europe | 3rd Open call for performing arts collaborations

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Mobility and exchange grants across the Nordic Region for emerging artists

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NEMO | Northern European Mobility Opportunity

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Be a LINA fellow and visit an architectural forum in Barcelona

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LINA Architecture | Spotlight Fellows

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ΝΕΒ open call aims to bridge the gap between creative vision and market reality, strengthen European fashion ecosystems

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NEB Academy | Fashion Shift

Artificial Intelligence

Cate Blanchett Brings the Fight Against AI Cloning to The European Parliament

Cate Blanchett has launched a campaign to protect individuals from having their faces, voices, and identities cloned by artificial intelligence without explicit consent.

"If AI is here, it should be a public resource": a conversation with Heritiana Ranaivoson
AI Reads Herculaneum's Sealed Scroll for the First Time
AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us
M.oving O.thers: Choreographing AI, Audience, and Live Performance

Interviews

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Kristin Danielsen: Culture Is a Method, Not a Product

"If AI is here, it should be a public resource": a conversation with Heritiana Ranaivoson

Nina George: Stolen Words Are Stolen Futures

Talking Finance With Arthur Steiner On Impact investing

Working Conditions

FLIP Final Study: The Precariat with a Portfolio

Europe calls its cultural workers vital infrastructure. The Creative FLIP final study shows they are also underpaid, underprotected, and absorbing systemic risks that policy should carry. Seven and a half years of evidence distilled into one uncomfortable question: resilient or enduring?

Digital Skills Champions Awarded As Report Warns of 2030 Shortfall In Critical Categories
In a Historic First, EU Institutions Commit to Place Culture at The Heart of Policy
Bouncing Forward: Creative FLIP's Final Conference Sets the Agenda Beyond
Glenn Micallef at FLIP Final Conference: We Are Exploring New Ways To Support Culture

Case Studies

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From Soundwave to Stage: When AI co-creation needs time, not just ideas

How the Europeana Academy Is Training Europe's Cultural Heritage Sector for the Digital Age

Demagog Studio: Building a Universe Where IP Connects Everything

M.oving O.thers: Choreographing AI, Audience, and Live Performance

Inclusion

Serbia's Artists Call for International Boycott of Expo 2027 as Cultural Repression Deepens

An open letter from Serbian artists and scholars urges foreign colleagues to shun next year's world exposition in Belgrade warning that the event is being used by the government of President Aleksandar Vu i to launder its image while systematically dismantling artistic freedom...

Marjane Satrapi, the woman who helped the world understand Iran
European Parliament Demands Brussels Act Over Slovakia's Rule of Law
Instagram can now read all users’ private messages. Will this make kids safer or just boost ad targeting?
EU Prepares Summer Law to Bar Children from Social Media as Von der Leyen Vows to 'Give Childhood Back'
Greening

AI Reads Herculaneum's Sealed Scroll for the First Time

Scholars in Naples announced on Thursday that artificial intelligence has read an entire Herculaneum scroll for the first time in nearly two millennia, deciphering a Stoic philosophical treatise in Ancient Greek sealed in volcanic debris since AD 79.

The Commission opens consultation on housing as Europe's building crisis deepens
The Islamic legacy built into Gaudí’s most famous designs
Velosonics: Listening to the City Through Machines
European Mayors Press Brussels For €300bn Housing Fund as City Rents Soar

Ukraine Crisis

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Rebuilding War-Torn Ukraine with Renewable, Community-Led Materials

From Insight to Impact: Powering Quality Journalism with Audience Data

Commissioner Micallef in Rome to build financial support for multilateralism through culture and cultural heritage

G. Micallef: "Ukraine's future is Europe's future. And culture belongs at the center of that future"