Grants for Internationalisation

Grants for Internationalisation is sponsored by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. This grant encourages projects that contribute to creating and strengthening international collaboration networks, impacting the professional growth and visibility of Portuguese artists, curators, and programmers, or foreign artists with tax residency in Portugal.

It supports travel for participation in artistic projects promoted by international cultural institutions.

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Start date 12 Jan 2026 / 17:00 End date 31 Oct 2026 / 17:00 To apply you must have a MyGulbenkian account.

Call Conditions, in Portuguese (PDF - 725 KB) The aim of this grant is to encourage projects that contribute to creating and strengthening international collaboration networks with an impact on the professional growth of the candidate artists as well as the visibility and recognition of their work; To support the travel of artists/programmers/curators to participate in artistic projects promoted by leading international cultural institutions with regular activity in the areas covered by the open call.

The following artistic areas are supported: Performing Arts: dance, theatre and new circus; Visual Arts: drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, painting and video; Cross-Disciplinary Projects: projects that integrate at least two different disciplines, the main one being one of the artistic areas defined for the competition (Performing Arts, Visual Arts or Cinema), and cannot focus on the fields of architecture, design, publishing or music.

Portuguese artists, curators and programmers in their individual capacity, or through private Portuguese non-profit organisations with which they collaborate in the implementation of the project.

Foreign artists must have tax residency in Portugal and be part of the Portuguese artistic community; Projects must be submitted at least 30 days prior to the date of their execution and must be executed within the period of 12 months following the application; Each artist can only submit only one application per year; Applications will only be accepted online and in Portuguese.

Before submitting the application form, check all the eligibility criteria. We advise you to read the Regulations and Frequently Asked Questions (available in the Documents area); Applications can only be submitted once all the mandatory fields of the form have been completed and the documentation required by the Regulation has been uploaded; At the end, click on the ‘submit application’ button.

In order to prevent difficulties in submitting applications, avoid submitting your application in the last few days of the deadline. If you have any questions after consulting the FAQs and the regulations, please contact the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at [email protected] .