i-Portunus

General Information

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

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

News

i-Portunus Stories

Our performance piece in Kiel reached many people that have never experienced live art or dance and it was the first time the museum has worked on such a durational live work. We have received much praise for our piece by museum staff and visitors. We already had initial contact for possible presentation of our piece in 2020 and after our showing the theatre places have confirmed.

Jasiek Mischke

This process has afforded us with a heightened sensitivity to different cultural and institutional modes of operating.

Mary Osborn

Travelling for five weeks with my collaborator, involved in an intense period of research and thinking in a different cultural context, brought up new considerations and insights for me surrounding my western centric cultural references, encouraging me to keep an open mind and think critically about my usual way of working with other people.

Susannah Stark