Monday 9 February 2026 - 11.00 am - 12:00 pm CET
Mobility Information Points (MIPs) are information centres and/or websites tackling administrative challenges that artists and culture professionals can face when working across borders. Key issues are visas, social insurance, taxes, and customs. MIPs are central contact points for artists and culture professionals as well as organisations hosting or collaborating with them (producers, managers, curators, artistic companies or ensembles, venues, festivals, residency spaces, etc.) when it comes to administrative issues of international mobility in relation to their respective countries.
MIPs currently exist in 9 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, and The Netherlands), as well as in the United Kingdom and the USA. MIPs are all members of On the Move, the international cultural mobility information and advocacy network.
This online information session aims to encourage organisations in the arts and cultural sector, such as public institutions, national organisations, public funders or independent bodies, to set up a Mobility Info Point (MIP) in countries that do not yet have one*. Sebastian Hoffmann, advisor at touring artists (the German MIP), will explain the practical steps involved in setting up a Mobility Info Point in a session facilitated by Marie Le Sourd (On the Move).
* Following in particular the European Parliament resolution with recommendations to the Commission on an EU framework for the social and professional situation of artists and workers in the cultural and creative sectors (2023/2051(INL)): ‘[The European Parliament] believes that promoting information on social security coordination rules in Europe on cross-border mobility of artists at EU level is necessary and useful for CCS professionals; encourages the Commission and the Member States to strengthen existing or, where not in place, set up new, adequately funded mobility information points as one-stop shops that are easily accessible in all EU languages and will help CCS professionals gather all relevant sectoral information concerning their working conditions, mobility, fiscality and social protection benefits’. (article 14) & the Report: UNESCO, Re|Shaping policies for creativity: addressing culture as a global public good, 2022: ‘The number of Mobility Information Points has increased in Europe and North America, while advisory services are increasingly in demand – suggesting growing complexities in mobility’.
