You are an artist with great ideas but not sure how to realise them? Looking for financial support but not sure where and how to apply? The “On the Move” platform is offering great help in solving these problems by creating a detailed Cultural Mobility Funding Guide.
The main objective of this Cultural Mobility Funding Guide is to provide an overview of the funding bodies and programmes that support the international mobility of artists and culture professionals traveling from/to ten Balkan countries, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.
On the Move commissioned researchers based in Ljubljana, Bucharest, Zagreb, and Peja to map grants and support schemes focusing on the Balkan region in order to provide, in a transparent manner, existing information that can help organisations and art workers find the best ways to engage with international colleagues and finance their international travel. This research took place from March to August 2022.
This Cultural Mobility Funding Guide should also inspire those responsible for public policies and mobility funds at the local, regional, national and European level, as well as private donors and mobility stakeholders at large. This guide can reinforce awareness of the remaining obstacles and difficulties that stand in the way of equal access to international opportunities, and suggest areas that should be financed more fairly and efficiently in order to ensure more sustainable support for cross-border cultural collaboration.
On the Move is an international information network dedicated to artistic and cultural mobility, gathering 67 members from 26 countries. Since 2002, On the Move has been working to provide regular, up-to-date and free information on mobility opportunities, conditions and funding, and to advocate for the value of cross-border cultural mobility. Co-funded by the European Union and the French Ministry of Culture, On the Move is implementing an ambitious multiannual programme to build the capacities of local, regional, national, European, and international stakeholders for the sustainable development of our cultural ecosystems.
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.