Creative Europe Desk Georgia and Perform Europe are pleased to invite you to an online information session about the Open Call under Perform Europe for performing arts professionals.
📅 Thursday, July 30
🕒 15:00
📍 ZOOM (online)

💡During the session we will discuss:
✔️Opportunities within Creative Europe Culture Strand
✔️Perform Europe Open Call for performing arts professionals: overview of the call criteria and priorities and tips to finding partners.
✔️ Project “Boys Just Want To Have Fun” – success story
✔️ Q&A session.

❗️Register in advance to attend the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/EcCAmJJ8TXqLSGzYUpXaNA#/registrati

🎭 About the Perform Europe Open Call:

Perform Europe is a funding scheme offering EUR 1.4 million for performing arts collaborations across all 41 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe supports partnership proposals which reinvent the way we tour across borders.

After two highly successful editions (2020-2022 / 2023-2026), Perform Europe will continue to put emphasis on exploring, with the performing arts sector, how cross-border touring can be made fairer, greener, and more inclusive.

Keywords: performing arts, theatre, dance, performance, circus, outdoor arts, puppetry, interdisciplinary, change-makers, inclusion, diversity, fight against climate change, sustainability, fairness, cross-border mobility, innovation

Proposals are submitted by collaboration partnerships of performing arts professionals and organisations. Partners should work on their proposal together. This is a call to the sector to create partnerships and propose impactful ideas that can generate real change via two main priorities:

• • • INCLUSION & DIVERSITY
    • FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

Each proposal should choose one of the above main priorities to focus on, while still taking into account and implementing measures related to the second priority.

In addition, all proposals should aim for quality and innovation, be built on fair practices, and are encouraged to promote collaboration across different regions within the 41 Creative Europe countries.

Perform Europe will grant EUR 1.4 million to at least 25 partnerships.

Applicants can apply for grants in three categories:

• • • EUR 15,000 – small grant
    • EUR 25,000 – medium grant
    • EUR 55,000 – large grant

In addition to the requested grant category, partnerships can request top-ups to address the sustainability and accessibility needs of their proposal. Each partnership may request any combination of the available top-ups, up to a maximum total top-up request of EUR 5,000 per proposal. The maximum granted amount, including top-ups, will be EUR 60,000, a requirement set by the funder, the European Union.

Of the total funding, 5% will be allocated to proposals which involve a partnership with Ukrainian partners or support initiatives for the Ukrainian performing arts sector.

• • • 23 June 2026 – Launch of open call
    • 22 October 2026 23:59 CEST – Deadline for submitting applications
    • January 2027 – Announcement of selected partnerships
    • 1 March 2027 – Start of partnership projects
    • 31 January 2028 – End of partnership projects

During the open call period, Perform Europe will organise help desk sessions, information, promotion and knowledge-sharing events regarding the open call. Check out events calendar for more details.