What Is the On the Move Website and Who Is It For?

On the Move is a resource platform for artists and cultural workers who want to work internationally. It gathers mobility funding guides, open calls for residencies and other supported opportunities, free advice points on practical questions like visas and taxation, and research publications. It is relevant if you are an artist or culture professional across any artform looking for funding, opportunities, or practical guidance for working abroad. Browsing the site requires no stated payment; the only subscription mentioned is an optional monthly newsletter.

What the platform actually offers

The site is organized around a few core services, each aimed at a different stage of planning international work.

Funding guides

Country and regional guides covering permanent grant schemes for mobility funding. This is the place to start if you know where you want to go but not how to pay for it. The guides focus on permanent schemes rather than one-off calls.

Open calls

A listing of supported opportunities to work internationally, with the stated condition that at least some travel costs are covered. Examples visible on the site include:

Calls can be filtered by artform, including visual arts, performing arts, music and sound, literature, digital and new media, architecture, and cultural heritage.

Mobility Information Points (MIPs)

Free advice on visa regulations, social security, taxation, and related subjects, available in MIP countries. This is the practical layer that sits between "I found funding" and "I can actually go" — the administrative questions that are easy to underestimate.

Resources

Reports, guides, videos, and publications from On the Move's own research and the wider mobility sector. A French-language section is also available for those who need resources in French.

Who it is for

The audience is artists and culture professionals of all artforms pursuing international work. That includes individual artists seeking residencies or grants, and cultural workers who organize or support international mobility. The common thread is a need to move across borders for creative or professional work and a need for structured information on how to do it.

How to use it

1. Clarify your goal. If you need money, go to the funding guides. If you need an opportunity with a deadline, go to open calls. If you have a concrete practical question (visa, tax, social security), go to the Mobility Information Points.
2. Filter by artform and format. Open calls are tagged by discipline and by in-person or hybrid format, so you can narrow to what fits your practice and travel capacity.
3. Check deadlines carefully. Several calls list multiple deadlines, which usually means recurring selection rounds — plan around the one that gives you enough preparation time.
4. Use the resources section for context. Reports and guides can help you understand the wider mobility landscape before committing to an application.
5. Optionally subscribe. The newsletter is sent once a month and features calls for residencies, grants, collaborations, and more — useful if you want opportunities pushed to you rather than checking back.

What to keep in mind

• The site is a signposting and information platform, not a funder. Applications go to the organizations running each call, not to On the Move.
• The open calls listed are described as covering at least some travel costs, but the specific terms of each opportunity are set by its organizer.
• Deadlines shown are those published on the site; verify them on the original call page before applying, since dates can change.
• The site also runs a Cultural Mobility Forum (the 2027 edition is announced for Casablanca, Morocco, on 30 April 2027) and publishes its own articles and recommendations, which can be useful background if you work in cultural policy or programming.

If you are planning international work and need either funding routes or concrete opportunities with travel support, On the Move is a reasonable first stop. If you need a grant decision or legal advice on your specific situation, use its guides and information points to find the right authority rather than expecting a direct answer from the platform.