Case Studies

Experts identified interesting cases from the diverse world of mobility funding. These cases go beyond the 'norm' of cultural diplomacy and can be characterised as those which, for example:

• provide artists and cultural professionals with an opportunity or platform to build partnerships with other individual professionals and/or institutions;
• open up new markets or opportunities for their works to be recognised and distributed;
• provide stepping stones for further career development;
• address contemporary cultural policy issues of e.g. cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue or the cultural industries;
• address the inequities or imbalances which persist in the mobility flows across Europe;
• promote transparency in the application and selection process.

Such cases were found within government cooperation strategies (international, trans-regional, national or local), within individual or targeted mobility programmes of arms-length or semi-public bodies, cultural institutions, foundations or other private sector actors from all parts of Europe.