Up to €60,000 to tour a finished show across Europe, with partners in at least three countries
If you have a finished show and partners in two other European countries, this call pays for the tour. Perform Europe is a touring scheme co-funded by the European Union. It is giving €1.4 million to at least 25 partnerships, for tours between March 2027 and January 2028 across the 41 countries of Creative Europe, the EU's culture programme.
It closes on Thursday 22 October 2026 at 23:59 CEST.
There are three grant sizes: €15,000, €25,000 or €55,000. On top of that, a partnership can ask for up to €5,000 for sustainability and accessibility costs, so the most one partnership can get is €60,000.
Concretely, it pays for touring, not production costs for a new piece. The work has to be finished, or be a concept ready to present in different places.
Each proposal picks one of two priorities, inclusion and diversity or the fight against climate change, and still has to take the other into account. Perform Europe says it will pay particular attention to proposals involving underrepresented regions and communities. Of the total, 5% is set aside for proposals that have Ukrainian partners or support the Ukrainian performing arts sector.
To give you an idea of the scale: in the previous edition, 42 partnerships with more than 187 partners toured 63 works during 2024 and 2025.
Perform Europe is run by six organisations, among them Circostrada, the European Festivals Association and IETM, the international network for contemporary performing arts.
- ·Organisations and professionals working in the performing arts, legally based in one of the 41 Creative Europe countries: the 27 EU member states plus 14 others. Your country of residence counts, not your nationality.
- ·The 14 countries outside the EU are Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine. Overseas territories of participating countries count too, among them Greenland, St. Pierre and Miquelon, the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
- ·Applications come from partnerships of at least three partners, based in at least three different Creative Europe countries.
- ·The proposal includes at least one finished work in circus, dance, outdoor arts, performance art, puppetry or theatre, shown in at least three Creative Europe countries. Live music and opera are excluded.
- ·Canada is not one of the eligible countries. Neither is the UK: the call says it is no longer part of Creative Europe.