i-Portunus

General Information

Welcome to the i-Portunus website! Here you will find the latest news and all the info you need to apply to the EU’s mobility scheme for artists, cultural professionals or hosts!

Are you an artist, creator or cultural professional looking for international collaborations, to go abroad for your professional development, to find new audiences, to present your work, to co-produce or co-create with others? Are you a well-established artist, or a cultural organisation willing to host artists or cultural professionals, to work together on a common project?

i-Portunus is a demand-driven mobility scheme that provides financial support and allows direct applications in cultural fields (except for the audio-visual sectors) via a straightforward and flexible process, from either:

Hosts or Individuals

Currently, i-Portunus is implemented by two pilot projects, managed by two consortia of cultural organisations.

One project, headed by the Goethe Institute, has already launched five Calls for Applications in the cultural sectors of Music, Literary Translation, Architecture and Cultural Heritage and funds mobility for individuals.
A second project, headed by the European Cultural Foundation, will be funding cultural mobility via two Calls for Applications for hosts, called i-Portunus Houses.

The results of these two projects, in addition to the first project implemented in 2019, will be reviewed by the European Commission in designing the final form of i-Portunus and its funding parameters, as a permanent action of the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027. The first projects in the new programme are planned to start in 2022.

Open Calls

Do you know what is i-Portunus?

Check out the trailer video here!

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Do you want to see more about our Grantees’ experience thanks to i-Portunus?

More videos are available here

News

The results of the selected applicants for the following schemes have been published:

Open Call – i-Portunus Houses Round 2
Open Call – i-Portunus Houses Round 1

Open Call – music 1
Open Call – literary translation
Open Call – architecture
Open Call – music 2
Open Call – cultural heritage

i-Portunus Stories

I was very happy to exchange with the hosts of the residence, they were very kind to the work and helped me achieve my goals. They’ve offered me to participate as an exterior-eye in their new production starting at the end of this year. So the collaboration between us will continue.

Vinicius Carvalho

We learned lots of about Greek traditional music, and stylistically we are now able to incorporate some of this into our repertoire. We were also able to share some of our traditional music from the UK with the musicians and audiences there. The Koroni Arts Festival wouldn’t have been able to fund our trip to Greece as there were many costs in the end, so we are incredibly grateful to i-Portunus without whom this trip would not have been possible

Emma Purslow

The fact that i-Portunus can provide such a generous amount to cover mobility and other life expenses is a unique opportunity. That’s why it went “beyond the objective”, because those two weeks were all about artistic work and not dealing with the stressful part of everyday life, economically speaking.

Karol Tyminski