EFFEA Call #5
Creative Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Supports emerging artists through festival-related residencies during 2027, with project grants up to €8,000; applicant eligibility is unspecified.
- Who can apply
- Unclear from the source.
- Amount
- €8K per projectTotal budget €470,000
- Deadline
- 04 Nov 2026 00:59 CETin 10 days
- Status
- Openopened 1 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Timeline
• Publication of the EFFEA Call#5: 1 September 2026
• ·Application deadline: 3 November 2026
• ·Jury Evaluations: November 2026
• ·Results announcement to applicants: December 2026
• ·Public results announcement: December 2026
• ·Implementation period of residencies*: 1 January 2027 - 31 December 2027
• ·EFFEA Intake Seminar: 26 January 2027
• ·EFFEA Outtake Seminar: 21 September 2027
• ·EFFEA Sessions:
• EFFEA Info Session #1: 15.09 Register here
• EFFEA Networking Session #2: 29.09 Register here
• EFFEA Networking Session #3: 13.10 Register here
• EFFEA Q&A #4: 20.10 Register here
*Residencies may take place at any time during the implementation period, following the signature of the grant agreement.
Further information on the call can be found on the EFFEA Website
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists is an initiative of the European Festivals Association co-funded by the European Union, implemented in partnership with 15 EFFEA Platform Members: Croatian Composers Society (Croatia), Culture Matters (Czechia), PLMF Arts Management (Estonia), France Festivals (France), Stichting Caucasus Foundation (Georgia), German Centre - International Theatre Institute (Germany), Summa Artium Kultúra Támogató (Hungary), Association of Irish Festival Events (Ireland), ItaliaFestival (Italy), Kosovar Centre for New Music/ ReMusica (Kosovo), ARC Research and Consultancy (Malta), Asociația Centrul Cultural Clujean (Romania), ArtLink (Serbia), Sweden Festivals (Sweden), Development Centre "Democracy through Culture" (Ukraine).
Associated Partners: Culture Action Europe, European Music Council, Pearle* Live Performance Europe, Circostrada, IETM, On the Move, European Dance Development Network, Művészetek Völgye.
Who can apply, in detail
- Purpose
- Culture and media
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €8K
- Topics
- Emerging artists
- Artistic residencies
- Festivals
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Other condition
- At least 80% of grant value must cover costs incurred by artists (including fees, travel, accommodation and subsistence); residency support uses at most 20%, and in-kind costs are capped at 10%.
- Other condition
- Call #5 applications run 1 September–3 November 2026; residency implementation is 1 January–31 December 2027.
- Other condition
- Discovery: €4,900 after contract signature and €2,100 after accepted report; Springboard: €9,100 after signature and €3,900 after accepted report.
- Other condition
- Springboard residency grant is €15,000; 10 Springboard grants are available.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €470,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Project funding, maximum
- €8,000
Personnel and services
Other role
Service the grant can fund
Call facts
- Opens
- 1 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Creative Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- EFFEA Call #5
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 1 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.