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EFFEA Call #4 - Call for festivals to support emerging artists
2025-10-24 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Madrid)
EFFEA Call #4 – Call for festivals to support emerging artists
Application deadline: 3 November 2025
Implementation period of EFFEA residencies: 1 January 2026 > 31 December 2026
The fourth call for festivals to support emerging artists is open! Submit your residency proposal by 3 November 2025.
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA) is back with its fourth call, running from 1 September to 3 November 2025. The fund will support around 50 residencies in 2026, giving at least 50 emerging artists the chance to work closely with 150 festivals across Europe and beyond.
An EFFEA Residency is an artist-in-residence programme designed to give emerging artists time, space, and support to develop new ideas or advance existing projects. Each residency is carried out by a partnership of at least three festivals from different countries: one leading festival and two partners.
Emerging artists are not defined by age but rather by their novelty to programmers and audiences and their potential for international breakthrough. Artists can be individuals or groups working across various artistic disciplines.
– Two Residency Categories –
1. EFFEA Discovery: Festivals support artists at the early stages of their careers with a strong potential to break through internationally. Approximately 40 grants of €8,000 will be awarded. It must include:
One work-in-progress (or production result) presentation at the leading festival
One workshop (live or online) between the artist and the festivals
One EFFEA film about the residency (to be included in the final report)
Participation in the EFFEA Intake and Outtake Seminars
2. EFFEA Springboard: Festivals support artists established in their own countries and ready to expand internationally. Approximately 10 grants of €15,000 will be awarded. It must include:
One presentation of the artist’s work (finished work) at the leading festival and each partner festival, so at least 3 presentations
One masterclass led by the artist in at least three countries, taking place at the leading festival and at least two partner festivals
One EFFEA film about the residency (to be included in the final report)
Participation in the EFFEA Intake and Outtake Seminars

– Who can apply? –
Eligible countries
Festivals and artists should have their official address in one of the following eligible countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, and Ukraine.
Festivals with their official address from the following countries are allowed to participate as partner festivals only: Israel, Moldova, Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, and the UK. Artists from these countries can be proposed.
Eligble Artistic Disciplines
The festivals and artists work in one or more of the following artistic disciplines: Architecture, Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Circus, Design/ Applied arts, Digital arts, Film, Folklore and folk arts, Heritage, Interdisciplinary, Literature, Music, Opera, Street Art, Theatre, Photography/ Video, Puppetry, Sculpture, Painting.
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