Cimetta Fund travel grant

If you would like to apply for a Cimetta Fund travel grant you must respect the following criteria :

1) You must make an individual request, written and sent by yourself. Requests sent by an organisation will not be accepted. Travel grants are allocated to individuals only.

2) Nationality is not an eligibility criteria but the candidate must be living and working in the Euro-Mediterranean zone.

3) There is no age limit.

4) Applicants must be artist (performer, creator, teacher) or operators working in the cultural sector (organiser, administrator, project manager).

5) The trip must take place AFTER the opening date of the candidacy. This implies that you may have to pay for your ticket if your travel is before the selection date and thus you will not yet know if your grant is allocated or not. If the date of departure is on the selection date and the candidate is unable to change the date, then an exception can be made. This implies that travel must be planned sufficiently in advance.

6) The aim of the candidat’s trip must be one of the following:
- Prepare a project.
- Take part in a residency.
- Take part in a meeting of artists and professionals with the aim of networking or encouraging links between cultural, artistic and development actors in the Mediterranean.
- Artistic training (master classes, workshops …) or professional training (cultural policy, cultural management) either as a trainee or as a teacher.
- Take part in debates, conferences and seminars.

7) The programme is open to the following artistic and cultural fields, either within transdisciplinary or monodisciplinary projects.
- Contemporary performing arts: new theatrical forms, new writing for theatre, drama, contemporary dance, circus, street performances in situ, puppet theatre and inter-disciplinary projects.
- Visual arts including photography, film, digital arts and video arts.
- Literature : especially travel for authors’ meetings, writing workshops, poetry…
- Setting up of cultural projects.

8) The trip must contribute to cultural development at local level in South or East Mediterranean countries. The candidate must develop local initiatives or policies on his/her return that contribute to the cultural dynamism of his or her own country or region. They must be committed to transmitting the benefits of their experience abroad to the other artists and professionals in their region in a networking fashion.

9) Applicants can leave or travel to one of the following zones: Middle East, North Africa, the wider Europe.

Deadline: June 30th, 2014

More information: http://www.cimettafund.org/article/index/rubrique/2/lang/en/id/5