European Union

The organisation is inviting applications from sound artists or musicians, architects and visual/mixed-media artists to participate in a 30-day residency in October 2026.

The Shadowing Programme 2026 is an intensive, hands-on international exchange in Bologna, Italy, supported by the CultureAndHealth Platform and implemented locally by Associazione Oltre…APS. The programme brings together artistic research, collaborative production, and community-based participatory workshops to explore how art can support collective well-being, social inclusion, and cultural welfare in local neighbourhood contexts. It will take place from 20 September to 4 October 2026.

Next Stage+ project announces a group residency from 14 to 16 September 2026 at Butiken in Hörken (Sweden) open for producers working on a freelance basis within the performing arts.

Sobremesa’s residencies are designed as a cross-cultural parallel programme that brings together three distinct contexts through a shared investigation of food as a practice of life.

PERFORMA-Q is a transnational European platform dedicated to surfacing erased queer stories from Europe’s periphery. For Cycle 1 of its Residency Programme, it is selecting six artists or collectives from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, and performative writing for residencies between October 2026 and April 2027 (2–4 weeks).

The Centre national de la danse x Cité internationale des arts residency programme is open to choreographers of all nationalities, working and living outside of France (overseas territories excluded).

The Regional Department for Cultural affairs of the Île-de-France region, the TRAM network, and the Cité internationale des arts have developed Contours, a research-based residency programme aimed at curators and/or art critics working and residing outside of France and its overseas departments, within the European Union, from 2 October to 28 December 2026.

Teatro dell’Osso ETS invites applications from five European artists and cultural professionals to participate in an international artistic residency in Naples, Italy, 1–28 April 2027 (supported by Culture Moves Europe, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut).

The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) has published a second call for proposals to support artistic projects in the two Mediterranean capitals of culture and dialogue for 2026, Matera (Italy) and Tetouan (Morocco).

AY-ROOP is launching an open call to select three circus artists and/or circus set designers/ builders based in a creative Europe country other than France, for a 21-day residency at Le Milieu (Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Rennes Metropole), 28 November to 18 December 2026.