OPEN CALLS

Our Picks | October Open Calls & Creative Opportunities

A curated selection of open calls for artists, designers, creative practitioners, and cultural organisations, with opportunities spanning new media, design, performing arts, craft, and international collaboration.
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Vladan Joler On Counter Mapping And Creative Agency In The Era of AI

As artificial intelligence reshapes human culture, artist and researcher Vladan Joler uses counter-mapping to reveal the hidden material, labour, and algorithmic structures behind AI, offering a blueprint for how to reclaim creative agency.

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Design a curatorial concept and programme for the next edition of the transmediale festival in Berlin

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transmediale e.V. | Open Call for Festival Curation 2028

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Philanthropy

Call for projects that approach technology as a material for experience, imagination, and design

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Onassis Foundation | ONX Seeds Open Call 2026

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Public funding

Composer wanted for experimental film project in Montenegro

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Moving Classics Sonic Bridges | OPEN CALL - COMPOSER/MUSIC COLLABORATOR

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Public funding

EMMA' s Residency supports three international young designers in Pforzheim 

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EMMA Creative Center Pforzheim | Designers in Residence 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Europe's Authors Call For A Change in Europe’s Mindset Regarding AI

EWC submission to the European Parliament's CULT Committee sets out a demand to strip back the text-and-data-mining exception ahead of the own-initiative report on AI in the creative sectors.

Platform signatories publish latest reports under the Code of Conduct on Disinformation
The Commission Moves To Ban Social Media For Under-13s in EU-Wide Child Safety Law
Vladan Joler On Counter Mapping And Creative Agency In The Era of AI
The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies

Interviews

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Bypass, Not Battle: Sönke Zehle on AI, the Commons and the Future of Creative Work

Vladan Joler On Counter Mapping And Creative Agency In The Era of AI

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

Kristin Danielsen: Culture Is a Method, Not a Product

Greening

The Commission Rewrites The Rules for Europe's Capitals of Culture

The European Commission has proposed a sweeping overhaul for the European Capitals of Culture scheme. Starting in 2034, new rules will switch the focus from a single year of festivals toward building long-term community legacies.

Victoria, in Malta, to become a European Capital of Culture for 2031
In October Athens Becomes Europe's Testing Ground for Creative Resilience
Europe Opens Its Doors To Heritage Under Threat
The coolest places in town: museums as refuges from the heat

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"

Inclusion

Europe's Artists Are Rebuilding Trust in Fractured Communities. But Who Should Pay For it?

A new study of "socially engaged arts" documents a field that funders and policymakers say they want to support – yet one that consistently falls between arts and social-policy budgets, at a time when both are under pressure across Europe

Reading by ear: how audiobooks can help people with phonological dyslexia to enjoy books
Europe Pauses To Remember The Roma And Sinti Genocide
Brussels moves to strip Venice Biennale of €2 million over return of Russian pavilion
Culture is the far right’s secret weapon

Case Studies

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Gaza Documentary by Oscar-Winning Israeli Pair Breaks Venice Ovation Record

Designing for a Regenerative Economy — HBKsaar's Pilot

A Living Cultural Ecosystem: Valmiermuiža as a Model for Heritage and Community

The Ground We Share: How Spazio Nour Turns Heritage into Community

Working Conditions

Report: Public Libraries as Europe's Overlooked Infrastructure

A first-of-its-kind EU report argues that the continent's 67,000 public libraries do far more than lend books — and warns that funding, legal protection and data on them remain dangerously uneven from one member state to the next.

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SOTEU 2026: After A Year of Recognition, No Mention, No Delivery Yet
CPJ condemns Israeli threats against ‘NAZA’ filmmakers
Culture Action Europe to The Commission: Turn Recognition into Funding