Collaboration & Networking

Djakarta International Theatre Platform (DITP) 2025 announced an open call for BELALANG \ CÀO CÀO: Translocal Performance Lab, a fully funded cross-border laboratory programme designed to cultivate experimentation, collaboration, and critical exchange among theatre makers and performing arts practitioners across Southeast Asia.

S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION invites artists from all disciplines to apply for an interdisciplinary residency programme focused on the future of water in Europe. At a time when water scarcity, pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss are reshaping societies and ecosystems, AQUA MOTION supports artistic experimentation that engages with these challenges through collaboration with scientists, technologists, local communities, and water experts.

The International Touring and Environmental Responsibility (ITER) programme, delivered by Julie’s Bicycle in collaboration with in futurum, is back for its fourth year. This initiative supports arts organisations and individuals in England, Denmark, and Norway to develop sustainable, inclusive, and equitable models for international touring.

Fast Forward Festival Forum 2025 is looking for seven students or graduates from the degree programmes theatre directing, dramaturgy / play writing or acting and three theatre professionals from the work fields theatre directing, education and theatre management / production, who are proposed by ETC Member Theatres.

Halaqat invites photographers to apply for a three-month residency in Cairo from 15 September to 15 December 2025, hosted at the Goethe-Institut’s White Villa.

SIT-PLU includes a programme of residencies (SIT-RES) happening in 2026 and 2027, where artists and creative practitioners selected through the open call will be invited to engage with a specific context (social, geographical, historical) for one year and develop new forms of creative intervention/cultural mediation.

Through this open call, 20 artists, collectives, and creatives across Europe will be awarded grants to create community-focused artworks. The selected projects must connect citizens to their aquatic environments and raise awareness of environmental challenges through artistic expression.

The British Council are calling for applications from artists or organisations for their Connections Through Culture grants programme, which supports creative collaborations between the UK and select countries in Asia and Europe.

The dance residency will take place from 7 to 13 July 2025.

Tirana Art Residency – Vila 31 x Art Explora is a three-month artistic residency programme founded by Art Explora in the Albanian capital, to be held in 2026.

The Europe Challenge is calling all libraries and community leaders in Europe to apply for their 2025/26 edition. The programme empowers libraries and their communities to tackle today’s most pressing social, digital, and climate challenges through collaboration across European borders.