Southern Europe

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.

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).

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).

Freelance and emerging theatre professionals are invited to join us for the first edition of Young Europe Artists in Residence Programme. ETC is offering placements at two of the ETC Member Theatres involved in Young Europe V.

The Western Balkans Fund is pleased to announce the launch of the Call for Participants for the first-ever Regional Academy on Dialogue and Culture of Cooperation, which will take place in Tirana, Albania, from 13 to 20 September 2026.

One of the projects featured in the exhibition will be developed through the Earthrise 26 Residency, from 5 October to 3 December 2026, a unique opportunity for an under 35 international designer to create and experiment within an interdisciplinary context.