Our Offices & Partners Abroad

Category: Call for applications

Synergies Open Call © Jean-Vincent Simonet
Art, Science and Technology

Synergies: Support for research-based programmes

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is looking to support research-based and process-oriented programmes that foster exchange between art, science and technology involving organisations in Switzerland and across the world. From hackathons to fellowships, from residencies to think tanks – the Synergies open call offers support of CHF 20,000 – CHF 150,000 for international collaborations …

01.03.2023
Connect Switzerland Visual
Art, Science and Technology

«Connect»: Residencies by Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia

Stay informed Get notified when a call from «Art, Science and Technology» (re)opens: Email Language Data Protection Policy Subscribe Pro Helvetia and Arts at CERN, the official arts programme of CERN, have been organising residencies together since 2014. Building on this common experience, the two institutions are taking a further step towards their goal of …

17.01.2023
Theater Chur | Photography and montage: Nadia Lanfranchi & Nina Oppliger
Diversity and equality

Call for applications: «Tandem Diversity» 2023

Would you like to identify discrimination and exclusion mechanisms in your cultural organization? Would you like to analyse your organisational culture and become more accessible? Pro Helvetia supports those wishing to pursue this process with its «Tandem Diversity» programme: Take part in a specially designed two-day workshop to learn the basics of diversity-oriented organisational development …

03.01.2023
Illustration «Compass» © Mirjana Farkas
Performing Arts

Call for applications «COMPASS»

With COMPASS, Pro Helvetia aims to support emerging companies with initial guest performance experience in developing strategies and work structures for their international touring activities. There are numerous platforms in Switzerland for initial or short productions by emerging companies, or for participation in national residency or touring programmes. At an international level, however, emerging companies …

Photography and montage: Nadia Lanfranchi & Nina Oppliger
Diversity and equality

Results of «Tandem Diversity» 2022

In the context of its activities around the topic «Diversity and Equality in the Cultural Sector», last year the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia launched the call for applications «Tandem Diversity». The aim of this call is to provide cultural organisations with an opportunity to examine their structures and make them more diversity-oriented. The selected …

31.12.2022
© Martin Heynen
Critical Reflection

Call for Applications «Expanding Perspectives»

How can new spaces for dialogue be opened up in which multiple actors can make themselves heard, share their knowledge and experience, and link up with one another? How can this lead to the exploration of new participatory and collaborative approaches and thus give rise to new forms of communication? What cultural and social networks …

29.11.2022
© Jean-Vincent Simonet
Art+, Art, Science and Technology

PolARTS: Call for proposals

Stay informed Get notified when a call from «Art, Science and Technology» (re)opens: Email Language Data Protection Policy Subscribe PolARTS is a joint initiative of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Polar Institute to stimulate the exchange and foster the collaboration between art and science. The PolARTS initiative opens a space for …

14.08.2022
Collection Cahiers d'Artistes 2021 © Pro Helvetia
Visual Arts

Call for applications: Cahiers d’Artistes

Pro Helvetia’s Collection Cahiers d’Artistes enables artists to publish their first monograph. The series offers professionals of the art world as well as the general art audience a showcase for current trends in the Swiss art scene. Based on an artistic and design concept, the monographs provide an overview of an artist’s work, without presenting …

02.03.2022
Optical microscopy image of the cuticle scales of a Pachyrrhynchus weevil © Kenza Djeghdi
Art+, Art, Science and Technology

NanoARTS: Call for proposals

Stay informed Get notified when a call from «Art, Science and Technology» (re)opens: Email Language Data Protection Policy Subscribe The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) are looking for artists and scientists who are interested in collaborating, with the aim of stimulating exchanges between art, science and technology. The NanoARTS …

10.01.2022
© Martin Heynen
Critical Reflection

Call for Applications «Multiply Perspectives»

With its call for applications «Multiply Perspectives», the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia aims to support projects that seek innovative ways of thinking critically about art and culture and about their function in society as part of our thematic focus on «Critical Reflection». Funded projects should stimulate opinion-forming, multiple perspectives and critical discussion on the …

03.01.2022
Diversity and equality

Results of «Diversity Tandem and Start Diversity» 2021

Results of «Diversity Tandem» call for applications 2021 In connection with its «Diversity and equality in the cultural sector» programme, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia launched a call for applications under the heading «Diversity Tandem» earlier this year with the aim of giving publicly supported cultural institutions and organisations the opportunity of examining their …

01.01.2022
Impulse Theaterfestival 2019 © Robin Junicke
Performing Arts

Networking at the Impulse Theater Festival

The Impulse Theater Festival in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne und Düsseldorf is one of the most important platforms for independent theatre in the German-speaking area. Each year, NRW KULTURsekretariat‘s Impulse Festival presents exemplary works that have been produced outside the traditional system of city theatres and that test, question and expend the medium of …

09.12.2021