Mobility Funding Guide to the Caribbean

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The main objective of this Cultural Mobility Funding Guide is to provide an overview of the funding bodies and programmes that support the international mobility of artists and culture professionals with a focus on the Caribbean, namely:

Countries of the Caribbean Region

  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Cuba
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Haiti
  • Jamaica
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Trinidad and Tobago

Non-sovereign Nations of the Caribbean Region

  • Caribbean British Overseas Territories – Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands
  • French overseas departments, regions, and communities in the Caribbean – Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy
  • Territories of the United States in the Caribbean – Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Saba
  • Colombia – Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
  • Venezuela – Federal Dependencies of Venezuela

On the Move commissioned researchers to map grants and support schemes focusing on the Caribbean in order to help organisations and arts workers to engage with international colleagues and finance their international travel. This research took place from February to July 2024.

This Cultural Mobility Funding Guide should also provide inspiration for those responsible for public policies and mobility funds at local, regional, national and International/European levels, as well as private donors and mobility stakeholders at large. Reinforcing awareness of the remaining obstacles that stand in the way of equal access to international opportunities, it can suggest areas that should be financed more fairly and efficiently in order to ensure more sustainable support for cross-border cultural collaboration within the Caribbean and/or connected to it.

This Mobility funding guide focused on the Caribbean is co-funded by the European Union.

Editor: Yohann Floch (On the Move)

Contributors: Jordi Baltà Portolés; Rose Bialer (ARC, Artists at Risk Connection); Yohann Floch (OTM, On the Move); Pascale Jaumay; Katie Kheriji-Watts (OTM, On the Move); Judith van der Kooij (DutchCulture); Marie Le Sourd (OTM, On the Move); Jake Neuberger (ARC, Artists at Risk Connection); Stefanie Thomas Gilbert-Roberts (CUMEDIAE, Culture & Media Agency Europe).

Acknowledgments for their support: OACPS, the Organisation of Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific States, ARC, Artists at Risk Connection and DutchCulture.

Graphic design and layout: Marine Domec

Supporters: The Spanish version of the guide is supported by the OACPS, the Organisation of Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific States and the programme ACP-EU CULTURE.

Spanish translator: Mariam Chaïb Babou.


The guide will be introduced during the webinar: Internationalisation and the Caribbean to be held on 25 September 2024. Register here.