Netherlands

The RECHARGE Academy is calling for applications from invite cultural heritage and creative sector professionals for the chance to participate in an immersive four-day programme designed to explore innovative, participatory business models that enhance the sustainability and societal impact of cultural organisations. The Academy will take place from 3 to 6 June 2025, on the campus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The Fellowship ‘Moving objects, Mobilising Culture’ enables researchers and heritage practitioners from formerly colonised countries to access and conduct research on (collections of) objects – whether defined as cultural, historical, ancestral, art or otherwise – which are currently (lost) in the Netherlands, as well as on related archives and documentation.

RIDCC invites choreographers from around the globe to submit their duets (7–12 mins) for the 7th edition of the duet competition, taking place from 11–14 June 2025, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

NEXUS, an international programme aimed at building professional networks and accessing new markets for emerging jazz musicians across Europe, is calling for applications from emerging jazz musicians, ages 18–35, based in Europe.

This combined open call invites applications for four fully funded residencies across the two European Union Horizon projects deCYPher and Bioindustry 4.0. Three artists will be selected to participate in the deCYPher project and one in the Bioindustry 4.0 project. Each artist is offered a 28-day-long fully funded research residency to be undertaken during 2025 and further support for the production of work towards a group exhibition in 2026.

Sonic Acts is looking for two Communications Managers for 28 hours per week. Applicants should be ready to start working by the beginning of December 2025.

In the framework of the Future Materials programme, the Jan van Eyck Academie is accepting applications for one Fashion and Textile Material Fellowship and one Future Materials Fellowship both lasting 11 months in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from 15 January to 15 December 2025

Hungry EcoCities aims to accelerate responsible innovation in Europe’s agri-food value chains by integrating art-driven experimentation and prototyping. This second Open Call will showcase how this approach can enhance AI-enabled responsible innovation for a sustainable food chain.

Applications to showcase at ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag), the key exchange for emerging European music, are open for all European artists. In 2025, Italy will be the focus country.

A coalition of Amsterdam-based Archives, Museums and Historical institutes, with the support of the Insinger Foundation, has taken the initiative for a five-year programme that offers three two-month long fellowships per year for curators, archivists and historians in the field of slavery history, starting in the second half of 2024

Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis are launching the fifth iteration of the Fellowship programme for a researcher, designer, writer, curator, or cultural producer living and working within the Caribbean region, offering the space to think through research and practice from February to July 2025.

CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues (CDCD) is calling for applications from professionals from the cultural field for the CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues Ethics Advisory Group, to take place online and in-person from June 2024 to December 2026.