Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture: Hub Festival Grants in West Africa

On the Move; Dijon; Sur place; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

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Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture: Hub Festival Grants in West Africa

Hub Festival Grants selects six major West African festivals to become regional leaders, each anchoring a transnational cluster in different cultural sectors. Hub festivals will develop and implement internationalisation strategies while supporting smaller festivals across the region to grow their international reach over an 18-month period.

Each hub manages a cluster of approximately 7 mid-scale festivals from at least 5 different West African countries, including at least two linguistic backgrounds (English, French, Portuguese). The hub will co-develop calls for cluster membership and coordinate activities that build lasting regional networks.

Target cultural sectors are the following:

• Cinema, AV & animation
• Heritage
• Literature
• Music
• Performing arts

The hubs will receive dedicated mentoring support to identify and develop relationships with European festival partners, participating in exchange visits to EU festivals during European festival season, followed by return visits from European partners during West African festival season.

The hubs can develop collaborations and co-productions, create festival circuits for artists and professionals, organise staff mobilities between festivals, arrange visits to major European festivals and networks, and pilot international marketing strategies and joint branding initiatives.

Large, well-established festivals with robust economic capacity, solid track records, high recognition and visibility, and ability to attract top-class artists can apply. Festivals must demonstrate strong links with regional artists and cultural organisations, plus capacity for international cooperation both within West Africa and with European festivals.

Up to 100,000 EUR will be provided to each selected organisation, based on a detailed budget submitted with the application. Funding covers dedicated staff person for cluster management, direct costs of implementing work plans, training programmes, international travel, and partnership development activities.