Culture Moves Europe — individual mobility for artists and cultural professionals 2026–2027

The call for individual mobility is open from 1 October 2026 to 30 April 2027, 23:59 CET. Evaluation takes place monthly, with deadlines on 31 October and 30 November 2026, then 31 January, 28 February, 31 March and 30 April 2027. There is no deadline in December 2026. You receive the result through the Goethe-Application Portal within 8 weeks of each monthly deadline.

The grant is a lump sum: €85 per project day and a travel allowance of €400 (distance under 5,000 km) or €800 (5,000 km or more), per person. Supplements can be added: €400 for green travel, €200 for each child under 18, €120 for a visa, €175 for outermost regions and €30/day for accessibility. For example, 30 days in a European country comes to €2,950, with no expense claims.

Individuals aged 18 or over who are legally resident in a country participating in Creative Europe, including Romania, and work in architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion, literature, music, performing arts or visual arts. You can apply individually or as a group of up to 5 people. Organisations do not apply directly to this call. Each person can receive only one individual mobility grant in the 2025–2028 edition.

An individual project lasts between 7 and 60 days, and a group project between 7 and 21 days, excluding travel days, and it must be carried out without interruption. The selected project must be completed within 6 months of signing the grant agreement and takes place in a participating Creative Europe country other than your country of residence.

The project is carried out with the support of an international partner, who may be an individual or an organisation in the destination country, and must pursue two of the programme's four objectives: to learn, to create, to explore or to connect. Applications are assessed by independent evaluators and by a jury made up of representatives of the European Commission and the Goethe-Institut.

In the 2025–2026 call, the European Commission received a record 7,831 applications and funded 1,596 projects, for 2,542 artists and cultural professionals, or about 20% of applications. 76% of applicants had not previously applied to other EU funding schemes. The total budget of the 2025–2028 edition is €25 million, for around 7,000 beneficiaries.

It depends on the complexity of the project and the documents you already have. The first step is the eligibility analysis, which tells you what needs to be prepared.

We tell you before any contract is signed, and if another suitable programme exists, we point you to it.