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

i-Portunus Houses Round 2
Upcoming call for applications: 23 August 2021
Submission Deadline: 3 October 2021 (24:00 CEST)

i-Portunus Houses survey on mobility

News

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

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

The festival was a great chance to connect with locals as well as artists from all over the world.

Antonia Beermann

We organized an exhibition in the gallery of the Cultural Center UDAS as we planned and we are satisfied with the response and the reaction of the audience. Collaboration with colleagues from UDAS and the NUBL Academy of Fine Arts was effective and creative. They helped us in every way and inspired us to work, but also they were delighted by the project and participated with a lot of enthusiasm in its implementation. The exhibition had good attendance and the audience was pleased with this unusual setting. We did an “art talk” workshop with students of Banja Luka Art Academy. They became interested in this kind of creation in which two different media interact, creating a whole new artistic expression. We also did a workshop at Georgij Stojkov Rakovski Primary School in Banja Luka with Professor Natasa Zole, which was more than planned. The children showed great creativity and their works delighted us.

Marija Šormaz and Jasna Dramićanin

We exceeded our expectations regarding collaborations with people who are not from the art world. We have gathered a lot of different kinds of materials (video, photo, objects) which we will use for further activities of the project “Y?”. Even though our mobility supported by i-Portunus finished in England, the project “Y?” continues with activities in America, and later again in Europe. We expect to make more contacts, activities, project presentations and interventions in the public space. We will also present our project in Hekler, New York. After New York comes the final phase of the project – production of an exhibition and of an art/documentary film. We were also able to widen our professional networks and got to know new spaces for future collaboration.

Neza Knez, Danilo Milovanovi, Tone Poljanec and Luka Erdani