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TIDAL ArtS | Residency Call

TIDAL ArtS awards four residencies focused on aquatic ecosystems and science with 50,000 EUR each

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Through the Residency Call, TIDAL ArtS will award four Residencies in Portugal, Italy, Finland, and Hungary that come with financial grants of 50,000 Euro each. These Residencies are open to artists, collectives, and creatives who can inspire and engage people in the Mission through their unique artistic creations and community engagement activities. These artworks will connect communities to their local waters, celebrate that connection, reflect the Mission’s themes, and highlight the four key ocean and water basins that serve as regional hubs for inspiration and action. These four hubs are known within the Mission as “Lighthouses”, and they include the geographic regions around the:

Atlantic-Arctic | Mediterranean | Baltic-North Sea | Danube-Black Sea

Apply for a chance to participate in a TIDAL ArtS Residency in:
São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal | Venice Lagoon, Italy
Turku Archipelago, Finland | Danube River, Ráckeve, Hungary
About TIDAL ArtS

TIDAL ArtS is a project offering grants to artists, collectives, and creatives to support the European Union’s Mission to Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030 (“the Mission”). Using a tidal logic, the project fosters connections between disciplines and species. Inspired by Neimanis’s “Bodies of Water” and “Hydrocommons” concepts, TIDAL ArtS emphasizes that human bodies, composed primarily of water, are both materially and semiotically entwined with other water bodies. By taking water as both a subject and praxis, TIDAL ArtS engages with the cyclical movement of water as a co-design methodology. Through multiple rounds of contact with local citizens, scientists, and cultures, the project’s waves of influence expand.
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AMOUNT

4 Residencies with 50,000 Euro grant each

APPLICATION DEADLINE

November 15, 2025, 

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden
ELIGIBILITY

TIDAL ArtS welcomes individual artists, collectives (up to 5 people ), and creatives of all types to apply. Applicants should have a portfolio of work that demonstrates their practice and experience (5+ years) relevant to the TIDAL ArtS themes of aquatic ecosystems, aquatic science, and citizen/community engagement through creative means.

Those who apply must meet the following criteria:

- Have the legal right to reside and work in the Residency location where the project is implemented (UK and non-EU citizens will therefore be excluded if they do not have the appropriate work/residence permits).
- Implement the project in the Residency location and spend at least six weeks on-site*.
- Be able to communicate in English (the application must be submitted in English).
- Be able to communicate in the local language of the Residency location or have a plan to engage local communities in their language.
- Applicants should address any foreseeable translation expenses in their proposed budgets.
- Have not had a Residency at the location (specific hosting organisation) before
- Have not been granted funds from TIDAL ArtS or its sister project PartArt4OW

APPLICATION DETAILS

To apply, please read the Residency Call for Proposals PDF in its entirety and visit the official  TIDAL ArtS website.

NOTE

*The calls that are listed on our website are shared for informational purposes and are sometimes subject to change. Please visit the organization's official open call website for up-to-date information.


DEADLINE

2025-11-15

TYPE OF SUPPORT

Public funding

FUNDING COUNTRIES

All EU Countries

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KEYWORDS
Arts - Bio-science - Circular economy - Environment - Science