Coordination
Angie Cotte


The Roberto Cimetta Fund (FRC) is an international association promoting artistic exchange and the mobility of professionals in the field of contemporary performing arts and visual arts within the Mediterranean area

In the Mediterranean region, the frontier region between the Arab, European and Turkish worlds, mobility is an historic reality and an absolute necessity today. It is essential to give shape to the concept of « the dialogue between cultures » and to ensure that individuals really meet ; more concretely this means to make financial resources available to facilitate travel, to capitalise on the opportunities for professional gathering, but also to recognise the free circulation of culture professionals as an integral part of their work. These are amongst the objectives of the Roberto Cimetta Fund.

Arts mobility, travel, meeting with other professionals are all aspects of artistic vitality. In a region where artists are often confronted with economically difficult situations, the Roberto Cimetta Fund supports and encourages travel which allows culture professionals to find the opportunities, partners and means to realise personal or collective projects; thus facilitating networking, exchanges of experience and cultural and artistic cooperation.

In collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation, the Roberto Cimetta Fund has set up a programme for awarding individual travel grants. These cover travel and visa costs for trips such as attending professional cultural network meetings, workshops, artist’s residences, festival, symposiums etc. The programme is intended to operate simply, flexibly and quickly. Selections are organised regularly (every 5 to 6 weeks). The Roberto Cimetta Fund organises professional platforms for comparing experience and knowledge on regional artistic issues in the Mediterranean

The mobility programme supports travel which is linked to exchange and to forthcoming projects
· The trip should facilitate networking, cooperation and exchange between professionals in the arts
· The experience should indirectly contribute to local cultural development.
· The project should demonstrate a sense of continuity.

Attention: Travel grants are not available for trips linked to production or touring:
the Fund does not finance travel in the framework of the actual production period or travel linked to the touring of work.

What does the FRC cover?
The FRC reimburses from 75 to 100% of the real international travel and visa costs.


Application

WHO can apply?
The travel grant programme is addressed to all professional artists, cultural operators or technicians working in the fields of contemporary performing arts, visual arts or cinema in the Mediterranean (the countries on the north shore from Portugal to Turkey, and on the south side from the Near East to the Maghreb.

European professionals may apply but only if their project has a strong Mediterranean connection.

The Roberto Cimetta Fund travel grants are individual – they are granted to specific individuals and not to organisations. The application must therefore be filled in and sent by the person desiring the grant. We can accept several applications linked to the same project (participants for short term training events, for example), but the selection will be based on the merit of each individual personally : he/she must clearly describe their career path, motivations and personal objectives.

Application deadline
Provisional dates are
* 25th June (Deadline for receiving applications: 11/06)
* 8th October (Deadline for receiving applications : 15/09)
* 7th January 2011(Deadline for receiving applications ; 15/12)

Check on webpages

Online application
www.cimettafund.org/EN/_docs/F...

Further information
www.cimettafund.org/EN/index.l... edit