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MedSEA – Socially Engaged Arts in the Mediterranean Area, a European cooperation project, launches an open call addressed to emerging artists and cultural professionals working — or wishing to work — with participatory and socially engaged artistic practices.

The applications for the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures’ Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts 2026-27 are now open and are looking to select up to seven early career scholars.

The Wheel is seeking a skilled and motivated EU Funding Officer to join the team, reporting to the European Programmes Manager

SCI_ART 2026 convenes artists, scientists, and research institutions from Canada and the European Union for a transnational Artist-in-Residence programme and festival taking place in Western Canada, from 22 September to 8 October 2026 across Vancouver Island, Vancouver, and the Okanagan.

Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) is a Creative Europe Cooperation project tackling socio-ecological challenges through cross-disciplinary research and context-specific artistic interventions.

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10 months fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

Living Arts International (Mekong Cultural Hub and Cambodian Living Arts), with SH|FT and ArtsEquator, are calling for applications to host a 90-minute workshop, seminar or other form of interactive session as part of the Safe Havens Meeting 2026 entitled ‘SEA Differently: An Asian Lens on Artistic Freedom’, which will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2–4 December 2026.

This call is an opportunity for established artists to undertake a 6-week residency at the Oceania Centre at The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, from 1 October to 12 November 2026.

CREAPOLIS Malta is calling for applications from Ukrainian professionals working at the intersection of civic life, culture, and local development.

The Institut français de Turquie and the Goethe-Institut Izmir, in collaboration with their local and Mediterranean partners, is calling for applications for the artistic residency programme Deniz Villaları : Ecological Crossings.

State of the ART(ist) is a collaborative initiative by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and Ars Electronica, dedicated to supporting artists working under existential threat. Whether shaped by political repression, war, digital surveillance, social inequality, or environmental disaster, the initiative responds to the increasingly precarious conditions under which artistic practice takes place in many parts of the world.

SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a multi-residency project designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. It involves six cultural institutions operating in Romania – the British Council, the Czech Centre, the Goethe Institute, the Cervantes Institute, the Polish Institute and Fundația9 – each engaged in supporting one residency.