" Culture and Health Platform | European Call for Projects 2025-2026 "
Culture and Health Platform | European Call for Projects 2025-2026
European Call supports Collaborative Arts, Health and Care Projects
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Are you an artist or artist collective, passionate about working at the intersection of culture, health and wellbeing?
Become part of a transformative European initiative that supports projects in the interprofessional space between culture and arts and one or more of the following sectors: health, care, education and social/community.
This European co-funded call invites project proposals from artists and artist collectives collaborating with non-cultural organisations (e.g., care homes, hospitals, social NGOs, mental health services etc.) to enhance the health and wellbeing of individuals or communities.
Projects may include:
- Participatory art programs for people experiencing physical and/or mental illnesses, loneliness or social isolation
- Participatory art programs that focus on prevention of mental ill-health or the management of illnesses in different settings.
- Participatory art programs in formal and informal educational/social care settings to enhance youth mental health
- Art in health or social care settings, including projects that enhance health and social care environments and support the staff and the patient’s well-being
- Productions in healthcare settings, which could include performances, installations, and exhibitions that support general well-being and highlight health-related issues
- Artist residencies in healthcare, social care or educational settings
- Socially-engaged arts: community arts to enhance health and wellbeing
For more information, please make sure to visit Culture and Health's official website and read the full open call description.
*The initiative is coordinated by Culture Action Europe
INFO
AMOUNT
The call has a two-stage application process and will award eight working grants of €8,000 each as of May/June 2026.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Stage 1: Expression of interest with a draft idea – deadline: 02 February 2026
Stage 2: Full application & selection from the shortlisted proposals – deadline: 30 March 2026
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
ELIGIBILITY
- Resident or nationals of a participating country to the Creative Europe programme, who do not have a national call in their own country, organised by the Culture And Health Platform. These are the following countries:
Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Tunisia, Ukraine.
Note: Additional national calls for a separate round of proposals for the Culture and Health Platform will open as of 15 January 2026 in the following countries: Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Malta, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Spain. They will be featured on the CultureAndHealth Platform website.
- You may apply for the grant as an individual artist, or as a collective/working group/NGO registered company. This specific call does not aim to support larger cultural organisations or institutions.
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
2026-02-02
TYPE OF SUPPORT
Public funding
FUNDING COUNTRIES
All EU Countries
WEBSITE
CONTACT
If you have any general questions in relation to the call after carefully reading the pdf document here, please contact kornelia@cultureactioneurope.org