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Corona - Covid19


Find below a collection of links with current information around Covid19, Austrian measures and support tools


Information 

European Center for Disease Prevention and Control

Ministry for Social Affairs Information Covid19

Measures

Ministry of Social Affairs Coronavirus Current Measures (DE)

Ministry of Social Affairs Current Measures Covid19 (EN)

Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur Sport und Öffentlicher Dienst - ministry for arts, culture, sport, public service


Update Covid-19 

Application opportunities for special Covid-19 support for artists and cultual workers ended with June 30, 2022

Arts Rights Justice Austria

Artistic freedom is a universal human right, and anchored as such, in Austrian law.

Arts Rights Justice Austria is an open network platform concerned with artistic freedom and in insuring its security. It is open to participants dedicated to a democratic, discrimination-free and participatory stance.

Network platform goals:

  • Contact and exchange point: networking individual participants and exchange of ideas about freedom of the arts in Austria and internationally.
  • Connection to the international network Arts Rights Justice Europe
  • Monitor infringement of artists’ rights in Austria
  • Consciousness raising and publicity
  • Observation and examination of the development of rights in Austria and the EU

 Arts Righst Justice

Arts Rights Justice EU Working Group

The Arts Rights Justice EU Working Group is an independent cross-sector working group (arts and human rights) set up in 2012 under the framework of the civil society dialogue platform, “Access to Culture”.

ARJ members are representing around 30 EU and international associations, NGOs and networks from arts, free speech and human rights sectors. Since 2014, ARJ is working under the framework of Culture Action Europe, and is currently powered by CAE, and the volunteering work of its members and pro-bono experts.

ARJ advocates for artistic freedom and human rights within the specific field of the arts sector. ARJ’s original mandate was to make policy recommendations to the EC and the EU Member States, and to highlight new trends pertinent to their policy making.

Arts Rights Justice Working Group

Brexit

The Withdrawal Agreement enables both EU citizens and UK nationals, as well as their respective family members, to continue to exercise their rights derived from Union law in each other's territories, for the rest of their lives, where those rights are based on life choices made before the end of the transition period (i.e. before 31 December 2020).

These over 3 million EU citizens in the United Kingdom, and over 1 million UK nationals in EU countries, as well as their respective family members, can continue to live, work or study in the host state as they currently do under the same substantive conditions as under Union law, benefiting in full from the application of the prohibition of any discrimination on grounds of nationality and of the right to equal treatment compared to host state nationals. The only restrictions that apply are those derived from Union law or as provided for under the Agreement. With the beginnig of 2021 the Brexit becomes reality and there are new regulations:

Information of the UK about the Brexit regulations starting from 01.01.202
 

Detailed Information

Creative Europe

The Creative Europe programme 2021-2027 has a budget of € 2.44 billion, compared to €1.47 billion of the previous programme (2014-2020). Creative Europe invests in actions that reinforce cultural diversity and respond to the needs and challenges of the cultural and creative sectors.

The main objectives of the programme are to

  • safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage
  • increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector

The novelties of the programme will contribute to the recovery of these sectors, reinforcing their efforts to become more inclusive, more digital and environmentally more sustainable.

The Creative Europe programme is divided in 3 strands.

Culture, Media and Crosssectural strand


https://ec.europa.eu/culture/d...

Culture Action Europe (CAE)

Culture Action Europe (CAE) was established in 1994 under the name of European Forum for Arts and Heritage (EFAH) – Forum Européen pour les Arts et le Patrimoine (FEAP) under the Belgian law. Predominantly as ‘network of networks’, EFAH-FEAP aimed to maintain continuous dialogue and knowledge exchange between the cultural sector in Europe and EU policymakers.

The association changed its name to Culture Action Europe in 2008 and diversified its membership, opening it up to public and private organisations, both large and small. This change was mirrored in the mission and advocacy policies of CAE. It adopted a new strategy, advocating for access to the arts and participation in culture as a fundamental right of every citizen. It has continued lobbying for public investment in culture and the arts as the main force for the development of a sustainable and more cohesive Europe.

Culture Action Europe


Cultuurloket (Belgium)

Cultuurloket is giving many kinds of advice and workshops for all artists in Belgium. 


Cultuurloket


CzechMobility.Info (Czech Republic)

CzechMobility.Info supports artists and professionals in culture across disciplines in

practical and administrative issues of international cooperation.

CzechMobility.Info


Das Fundus (Austria)

dasfundus is a self-organized and open platform by and for free art and cultural workers to share resources, gather information, provide links and stay in touch.

www.dasfundus.net

DutchCulture Mobility Info Point (Netherlands)

DutchCulture is the network and knowledge organisation for international cultural cooperation.

DutchCulture wants to help all those who work in the artistic and cultural field - from individual artists to renowned organisations - who harbor international ambitions.

They realise, stimulate and support collaboration between artists and art institutions worldwide. Sometimes with organisations, diplomatic posts and governments, sometimes with artists themselves, with individual advice and tailored guidance.

Besides a knowledge centre, they are also a network organisation. Where culture, media and heritage are cross-border, DutchCulture brings together people, organisations, knowledge and cultures. They are therefore the contact point for the EU programs Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens.

Among other things, DutchCulture provides information on European grants and on artist-in-residences throughout the world, organises work visits for embassies and foreign experts, collects information on the export of Dutch culture, stimulates collaboration and coordinates cultural programs worldwide.

DutchCulture Mobility Info Point

Flanders Arts Institute (Belgium)

Flanders Arts Institute is an interface organisation and expertise centre for the arts from Flanders and Brussels.

The organisation caters to both national and international professional arts audiences. The organisation is known as Kunstenpunt to national audiences.

The institute is the contact point for foreign art professionals in search of information on the visual and performing arts and on music in Flanders. To increase the awareness and visibility of the Flemish arts scene on an international level they stimulate and help develop international collaboration, communication and exchange between artists, art professionals and policy-makers. With this, they are aiming to build sustainable international relations and to encourage and support exchange and cooperation on an international scale.

Flanders Arts Institute


Freemuse

Freemuse is an independent international organisation advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression

Freemuse


Konstnärsguiden (Schweden)

The Artists’ Guide is a web portal for artists (in different fields of art) based in other countries who would like to learn more about visiting, working and living in Sweden. The Artists’ Guide is divided into sections with information directed to citizens of the EU/EEA countries, with a special part for Nordic citizens, and a section with information for citizens outside the EU/EAA.

The Artists’ Guide describes the premises for a temporary visit, a longer visit or a permanent stay. There is also information about how the Swedish tax and social security systems work and links to other agencies’ websites for more detailed information.

https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se

Loja Lisboa Cultura (Portugal)

Loja Lisboa Cultura is a specialised service providing training and information to arts professionals and organisations on issues related to professional activities in the arts. 

What you can do at Loja Lisboa Cultura:

Obtain information and assistance
Obtain information about creating a legal entity, establishing a freelance
activity, funding opportunities, licenses and permits, taxes, social
security, authors’ and related rights, international mobility, and other
issues specifically related to the arts and culture sector.


Loja Lisboa Cultura

mica - music austria

mica – music austria is the professional partner for musicians in Austria.

The primary goals of mica – music austria are to provide information on the Austrian music scene, to support Austria-based musicians with advice and information, to promote local music at home and abroad, and to improve the conditions for music productions in Austria

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mica – music austria


MobiCulture (France)

MobiCulture is a resource centre specialised in helping artists and culture professionals with the administrative aspects of coming to France, MobiCulture’s mission is to support your mobility to France. 

MobiCulture


On The Move

On the Move (OTM) is a cultural mobility information network with more than 35 members in over 20 countries across Europe and beyond. Our mission is to encourage and facilitate cross-border mobility and cooperation, contributing to building up a vibrant and shared European cultural space that is strongly connected worldwide.

Pearle Cookbook Visa

EFA and Pearle present The Ultimate Guide for Cultural
Managers - Visas for Third Country National Artists Travelling to the
Schengen Area

Cookbook Visa the Ultimate Guide  

Download Cookbook Visa

ResArtis

ResArtis is an association of over 600 centers, organisations, and individuals in over 70 countries. Each of our members is dedicated to offering artists, curators, and all manner of creative people the essential time and space away from the pressures and habits of every-day life, an experience framed within a unique geographic and cultural context.

Through Res Artis, organisations will become part of a global community of colleagues engaged in dialogue through our face-to-face meetings and virtually through our online presence.

http://www.resartis.org/en/

Tamizdat (USA)

Tamizdat is a nonprofit organization
that facilitates and advocates for international artist mobility and
cultural exchange. Driven by the conviction that the international
mobility and exchange of culture is fundamental to a healthy and
progressive civil society, Tamizdat seeks through its program activities
to assist the international performing arts community to address
problems presented by international borders, and U.S. visa policies and
procedures.

Tamizdat

TINFO (Finland)

TINFO cooperates with professional theatre artists, directors, producers and festival managers. TINFO publishes yearly Finnish theatre statistics, and provides material and advice on international mobility.

Theater in Finland Now TINFO


TransArtists

DutchCulture|TransArtists combines and shares knowledge and experience on artist-in-programmes and other international opportunities for creative professionals to temporarily stay and work elsewhere.

It offers you information and all the facts about use and value of international artist-in-residence opportunities. The tools and services are developed from the artists' perspective.

Their goal is to make the enormous worldwide residential art labyrinth accessible and usable to artists through our website, workshops, AiR collection, research and projects. To do this, they often cooperate with a wide range of partners in all regions of the world.

http://www.transartists.org

Touring Artists (Germany)

www.touring-artists.info provides answers to questions regarding international mobility for artists and persons engaged in the cultural sector in Germany as well as those  wanting to work in Germany.
For more information, please see: What is touring artists?

Wales Arts International (Wales/UK)

Wales Arts International is a bridge between Wales Arts and the world. Supporting artists and cultural workers in Wales as well as the ones landing in Wales.

They enable  international work in the arts through collaborations, projects, networks and communication, offering a gateway between the arts of Wales and the world.

Wales Arts International