Short Description
Culture Moves Europe promotes cultural and artistic mobility by supporting individual mobility and residency projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. It supports artists and cultural professionals by giving them funds to travel and carry out a project in another Creative Europe country.
Culture Moves Europe aims for gender, geographical and sector balance, and encourages sustainability and inclusion. It covers the sectors of architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.
Culture Moves Europe is funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut e.V.
The two action lines
Culture Moves Europe is divided between two action lines: Individual Mobility Action (for individuals and groups of up to 5 persons), Residency Action (for legal entities to host between 1 and 5 artists and cultural professionals). We are looking for evaluators who would be able to carry out assessments of applications across both action lines.
Individual Mobility Action
The Individual Mobility Action provides financial support to artists and cultural professionals who, in collaboration with an international partner, wish to travel from one Creative Europe country to another to carry out their artistic project.
Through this action, Culture Moves Europe aims to support artists and cultural professionals active in the eligible sectors in developing their careers internationally, in learning new skills and cooperating beyond borders. Applicants are free to choose who they want to work with, as well as the goals and parameters of their project.
The mobility grant contributes to travel costs and daily expenses during the implementation of the project and is calculated based on project duration and some specific individual circumstances of the grantees.
Residency Action
The Residency Action targets legal entities (organisations and individuals) who wish to implement an artistic and cultural residency project. The host will be able to invite up to five artists and cultural professionals from other Creative Europe countries to participate in their residency project.
The legal entities must be active in one of the eligible sectors and have the capacity to host a residency project, in terms of facilities, services, staff, and mentoring opportunities.
Eligibility
- be at least 18 years of age
- have expertise and professional experience in at least one of the following sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, visual arts
- have experience in evaluation of applications or proposals
- have knowledge of international cultural exchange, mobility projects, or cultural management and international cooperation projects
- possess strong writing skills and digital literacy
- have legal residency in a Creative Europe country, including the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and Outermost Regions (ORs) of the European Union
- have advanced English language proficiency
Submission Requirements
- CV (max. 2 pages)
- motivation statement (max. 750 words)
- signed declaration of honour (template found in the portal)
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
Culture Moves Europe offers the following evaluation fees:
- €12 (plus VAT) per application evaluated under the individual mobility action
- €20 (plus VAT) per application evaluated under the residency action
An additional €5 per application will be paid for evaluations requested on short notice.
How many applications can you expect to receive?
The number of evaluations that each evaluator will receive depends on the number and distribution of eligible applications across each sector. From previous experience, in average monthly deadline, there can be a total of between 300–500 eligible applications. For final deadlines of calls, it can rise to over 2000 applications. The average time to evaluate one application is between 20-30 minutes.
In addition, from experience, there are also differences in the number of applications received per sector. This can impact how often some evaluators are contacted to take part in evaluations.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Germany
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 8 September 2025
Website Link: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/calls/call-for-evaluators-to-join-the-culture-moves-europe-pool
