Deadline: 20 September 2024
Are you an artist eager to test innovative concepts in real-world settings? Do you have experience in the agri-food sector? If so, this opportunity is for you.
Hungry EcoCities is launching the 2nd Phase of the 2nd Open Call for Artists, They aim to explore one of the most pressing challenges of the times: the need for a more healthy, sustainable, responsible, and affordable agri-food system for all enabled by AI.
The project is part of the S+T+ARTS residencies, funded from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. In Hungry EcoCities, studios, universities, growers, and agricultural specialists team up with artists and creative thinkers to come up with new ideas for the future food system. The project consortium, consisting of 8 partners across 6 EU countries, will run two open calls throughout the project to select up to 20 art-driven experiments.
They search for individual Artists who will come together with the End-Users to address specific local challenges for artist-driven experiments conducted in local test sites. The selected teams will work together on a proposal to tackle a challenge in a concrete test site provided by the End-User (e.g., supermarket, bio farm, community garden, production facility, restaurant).
Benefits
- Funding
- Get up to 37 5000 EUR as a lump sum per Artist (1 500 EUR for each of the 20 pre-selected Artists participating in the Jury Day plus 36 000 EUR per the final 10 selected Artists joining the PPE).
- Support Program
- 8-month support program including mentoring sessions, core-team meetings, topic-specific masterclass needs-based and artist café for knowledge exchange and collaboration.
- Tools and Network
- Access to scientific expertise, creative studios, the Knowledge Hubs network, and the CRA Factory in Turin with its prototyping equipment and technical support.
- SME-Artist Collaboration
- 8-month collaboration with an innovative End-User to enhance their products, services, or production processes through digital (AI) technology.
Who can apply?
- They are looking for Artists – Natural Persons running a business and those not running a business acting as an artist.
- An Artist refers to:
- person or entity, registered under NACE Code ‘9003 Artistic creation’, or
- a self‐employed individual (freelancer) who undertakes artistic activities as a profession/job occupation, such as creative technologists, media artists, creative coders, artistic front & back-end designers & hackers, digital artists, etc.
For more information, visit STARTS.
