Bulgaria

Bridging Balkan Borders is calling for applications from songwriters and producers from Southeast Europe to apply for an opportunity to collaborate with regional peers and mentors in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the SoAlive Music Conference 2025.

One local artist will be selected for joint research and production residency at each of the partner spaces. The residency programme lasts for six months between June and December 2025.

The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation invites women writers from Bulgaria and other European countries to apply for the third edition of Women in the Mountains residency, from 1 to 10 August 2025, in the mountain town of Chepelare, Bulgaria.

Teatroskop invites cultural and artistic organisations to apply for its 2025 Call for Projects, which supports the development of contemporary performing arts collaborations between France and South-East Europe. This call encompasses cooperation, distribution, capacity building, and networking. The project must be completed before 31 December 2025.

Bridging Balkan Borders is calling from applications from songwriters for one of their Songwriting Camps in January and February 2025.

The Theatre in Palm partner countries will organise 12 local residencies for emerging artists in 2024. Each of the 12 partner countries will host five emerging artists for two weeks in their local venues.

Operated by the International Elias Canetti Society and funded by the Danube Rectors’ Conference, the Canetti Artist Scholarship is aimed at artists from all over Europe who want to undertake a one-month scholarship in the spring/summer of 2024 in Ruse, Bulgaria. The slogan of the scholarship ‘Sharing Future’ aims at a collaborative creation and cooperation for a joint Europe and a common future.

The RE-IMAGINE Green Residency Programme is a unique opportunity for critical minds to engage in transformative projects addressing the urgent challenges posed by climate change, focused particularly in the Balkan region and Central Europe.

Global Connect is an IETM programme created with and supported by IETM Associate Members. The goal of Global Connect is to make the network more inclusive, diverse and accessible. Among other forms of support, successful applicants will benefit from funding to attend one IETM meeting: the IETM Plenary meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria on 12-15 June 2024.

The ECHO Academy in Bulgaria is looking for 10 fashion designers who will develop artworks and proposals for pilot projects. The Academy will be held between 5-26 October 2023 in a hybrid form. Applications are open to legal residents in the countries within the Creative Europe framework and non-EU countries of the Western Balkans. Applicants should be emerging creatives between 18 and 35 years old.

Collab 4 HY Sustain seeks to support 15 European culture and creative organisations that want to innovate within two topics: Audience and Hybrid Approaches, and Sustainability in Processes of Collaboration. Applying organisations must be working in the EU cultural and creative sectors. Priority will be given to activities based in project partner countries – Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Denmark – or cross-border initiatives that have partners in one of these countries.