Open Call: Digital on Stage Cascade Funding Programme

About the Open Call

Do you want to experiment with innovative digital tools in your performing art? The DIGITAL on STAGE Creative Europe project invites performing artists and collectives from Greece, Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, and Italy to apply for its Cascade Funding Programme, offering: – 8.000€ financial support – International showcasing opportunities – Participation in major European festivals in Italy, Spain & Belgium (2026) – Artistic mentoring & European promotion. Let your creativity meet technology. Become part of the next wave of European digital performing arts!

What is Offered

8.000€ financial support – International showcasing opportunities – Participation in major European festivals in Italy, Spain & Belgium (2026) – Artistic mentoring & European promotion

Requirements

You are an artist or artist collective with an official residence in Sweden, Belgium, Slovenia, Italy, Spain or Greece. You are 18 years old or older. An artist or collective of artists who need an extra push, for example to complete an ongoing production, a new artistic approach, purchasing of new equipment, professionalization, postproduction. A stage-worthy and tourable performing arts production, to be finalized and performed in spring 2026. Artists or collectives based in one of the 6 partner countries, working on digital, phygital or hybrid performances that integrate technologies like: Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Interactive installations & 3D environments, Digital streaming platforms. For Swedish applicants, you need to be able to invoice the grant. The support is intended as co-financing for an already ongoing production and not to cover all production costs. In the application, the applicant needs to demonstrate that the project will receive funding from other sources or how the production will be carried out with a limited budget, i.e. only EUR 8 000.

How to Apply

You need to fill in the Application form.