Catch up with recent opportunities, call-outs, grants and deadlines

ETC has a year-round programme of events, opportunities and international exchange including grants ETC Members can apply to. Below you will find all of our upcoming opportunities and the deadlines you need.

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Staff Mobility Grants

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Staff Mobility Grants
Staff Mobility Grants
Application deadline: first-come, first-served, on a rolling basis Apply for funding to support staff mobility from one ETC Theatre to another ETC Theatre.
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Call to re-open end of 2026 Performance & Collaboration Grants

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Call to re-open end of 2026 Performance & Collaboration Grants
Performance & Collaboration Grants
The Performance & Collaboration Grants are available to ETC Member Theatres to jointly develop artistic projects/productions together or wishing to invite a guest performance from another ETC Member Theatre.
This artistic collaboration gives a new and exciting cultural experience to the theatre audience and provides ETC Member Theatres with an interesting opportunity for personal and professional encounters.
With this opportunity, ETC wants to encourage innovation, exploration, and trial-and-error, also allowing for inconclusive experiments and unfinished products to fuel artistic creativity. Grant applicants can individually decide how to share and use the financial support of €5,000. Eligible costs are travel costs supporting the international collaboration, artist fees, production, software- or hardware costs, etc. pp.
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Young Europe V

DEADLINE: SUNDAY 28 JUNE, 12:00 CET

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Young Europe V
Young Europe V
Freelance and emerging theatre professionals are invited to join us for the first edition of Young Europe Artists in Residence Programme.
We are offering placements at two of the ETC Member Theatres involved in Young Europe V. The selected professionals will join the creative and educational team of a theatre production process, thus gaining and contributing insights about new working methods and discovering the daily routine and structures of a European public theatre based in a different country.
ETC Artist in Residence Programmes are scholarships that support international cooperation, foster new perspectives and professional artistic experience and knowledge exchange. It does not offer an employment in the hosting theatre.
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ETC's Sustainable Theatre Programme Development Grants

DEADLINE: THURSDAY 18 JUNE, 17:00 CET

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ETC's Sustainable Theatre Programme Development Grants
The European Theatre Convention (ETC) is delighted to announce a new Collaboration Development Grant for Sustainable Theatre, offering grants of €4,500 each to support ETC member theatres in developing collaborative projects towards climate neutrality. This grant aims to encourage creative and flexible collaborations among ETC member theatres that explore, test, or implement aspects of the European Theatre Green Book (TGB) — whether in buildings, productions, or operations. We want to give you the space to experiment, exchange ideas, and strengthen your sustainability journey.
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ETC's Digital Theatre Programme Research & Development Sprints

DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY 14 JANUARY, 17:00 CET

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ETC's Digital Theatre Programme Research & Development Sprints
We're thrilled to launch the open call for the second round of ETC Research & Development Sprints of our Digital Theatre Programme! You can now apply for funding to support digital project development between two ETC Member Theatres with the consultancy of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality.
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ETC's Sustainable Theatre Programme

DEADLINE: SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY, 17:00 CET

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ETC's Sustainable Theatre Programme
In the season 2025/2026, ETC will support up to two new European contemporary drama texts and their international trajectory by circulating them within its membership and financially participating in their translation into English.
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ETC Collaboration Development Grants: Sustainable Theatre

DEADLINE: FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER, 12:00 CET

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