Create cross-border touring partnerships
The call supports partnerships of performing-arts professionals and organisations from Creative Europe countries.
Perform Europe · Open Call 2026–2028
EURAN — PERFORM EUROPE
Call closure date · 2026-10-22
COUNTDOWN
01 · What the call wants
The opportunity in brief
Address inclusion, diversity or climate change
Projects focus on inclusion and diversity or the fight against climate change, combining artistic quality, innovation and fair practice.
Reimagine touring
Partnerships co-create touring projects capable of changing how performing arts are developed, presented and experienced across borders.
02 · What EURAN proposes
ART, DESIGN AND PLACE — A PERFORMING-ARTS TOURING PROPOSITION
EURAN brings an artistic, spatial and design dimension into cross-border performing-arts development. The proposition combines specialist performing-arts capability with EURAN's experience in art, design, visual environments and place. Performance, scenography, audience experience and place-based cultural encounters become parts of one co-created touring work, structured around the priorities of Perform Europe.
03 · Why EURAN
Relevant foundations already exist
Art & Design 2day
EURAN's long-running art-and-design activity provides an extensive visual and conceptual resource for the development of artistic environments.
Project development experience
EURAN converts artistic and design concepts into structured propositions and real-world cultural projects.
Cross-border cultural network
EURAN's wider professional network supports cultural exchange, connections and European dissemination.
Place-based thinking
Architecture, design and cultural environments form part of EURAN's core conceptual territory and bring a distinctive spatial dimension to performing-arts development.
04 · The partnership
Defined capabilities — not symbolic association
Performing-arts leadership
An eligible performing-arts professional or organisation provides the specialist artistic and touring leadership required by the proposition. Live music is excluded from this call.
Artists / performers
Practitioners from eligible performing-arts disciplines develop and realise the touring work.
Production / touring
Production and host organisations establish the operational capacity to realise and tour the work across different European territories.
Accessibility / sustainability
Relevant expertise embeds inclusion, accessibility and environmental performance within the development and delivery of the project.
05 · Why this matters
From artistic concept to a European touring work
The proposition brings performing arts, visual culture, spatial design and audience experience into one development process. Each participant contributes its specialist capability to the same work. The result is not a visual-art project attached to a performing-arts application, but a genuinely co-created touring proposition designed from the outset to move across European contexts.
The artistic proposition provides the starting point. Perform Europe creates the framework to develop it across borders.
06 · Participation
EURAN — PERFORM EUROPE is now being structured
The artistic, production and touring configuration is being defined for the 22 October 2026 submission. Participation is established where artistic capability, eligibility and strategic relevance converge. No organisation is presented as a partner before its role and participation are agreed.