S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion – Open Call for Artistic Residencies 2025 (up to €40,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 13, 2025

S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion is happy to announce its Call for Artists for an interdisciplinary Residency Programme devoted to modern water administration by means of the collaboration of Science, Technology, and Arts. This initiative particularly targets essential water-associated challenges in numerous European areas, combining inventive exploration and technological experimentation to develop impactful options.

The program incorporates a 9-month inventive residency adopted by a 4-month scale-up section, fostering artistic analysis and significant collaborations between artwork, expertise and science and societal companions in Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, and Italy. In whole, 25 residencies might be supported by specialised organisations. Artists are inspired to create tangible inventive outputs – corresponding to installations, performances, or practical prototypes – that successfully tackle distinct regional water administration challenges.

Benefits

• EUR 40,000 funds per artist residency, overlaying artist charges, prices related to participation in exhibitions and public occasions, and different related bills crucial for the profitable implementation of the residency (together with manufacturing of artworks or prototypes).
• Access to specialised assets, technological infrastructure, and services offered by the residency host establishments.
• Participation in an individualised Mentoring Programme
• Expert steerage and help inside the interdisciplinary 5-Helix construction, enabling artists to collaborate intently with enterprise, academia, authorities, surroundings, and civil society representatives.
• Access to the in depth Europe-wide S+T+ARTS community, together with participation in group-constructing occasions, workshops, and networking alternatives (each on-line and in-individual).
• Opportunities to current inventive outcomes at distinguished worldwide exhibitions and occasions, together with potential participation at a convention on the Ars Electronica Festival, Venice Biennale, Brussels-based pop-up occasions, and different excessive-visibility occasions.
• Visibility by means of excessive affect communication actions to promote the inventive output and its innovation spillovers.

Eligibility

• Open to artists of any nationality ready to journey to the nation internet hosting the Residency.
• Applicants should have a sound fiscal ID (e.g., VAT quantity).
• Applicants should be impartial of AQUA MOTION consortium companions (no present staff or associates).
• Not eligible if already granted a S+T+ARTS residency for 2025 or 2026.
• Must have at the least 5 years of inventive observe and a documented portfolio.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion.