European Cultural Foundation - STEP Beyond Mobility Fund
Mobility stands for the ability to move freely and easily cross borders to gain inspiration and stimulate innovative creative connections. It is the life-blood of cultural cooperation. Artists and others in the cultural sector need to meet their international peers, exchange views, cooperate, influence and learn from each other.
With our mobility fund STEP beyond we stimulate and support cross-cultural creative projects. We want to motivate young artists and cultural practitioners to explore, experience, gain inspiration and stimulate innovative creative connections through:
• Exploring unknown grounds and discovering different ways of working
• Collaborating and exchanging views and ideas
• Networking
Launched in February 2003, the European Cultural Foundation's mobility scheme supports cross-border movement of artists and cultural workers to experience diversity and cross-cultural cooperation between all European countries, including those that are not currently members of the European Union, and since July 2005, in collaboration with the Arts and Culture Network Program of the Open Society Institute Budapest, also the countries of the South Caucasus, i.e. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, since January 2007 Turkey as well. It gives creative and inspiring channels for expression through a multifaceted exchange of ideas and communication with other cultures. Specifically, STEP beyond offers grants to people (individuals or those representing an organization) whose travel would contribute to this goal.
More information
http://www.eurocult.org/uploads/docs/871.pdf
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