• Lubomir Filipov and a Swedish women’s performance group called 'Blast', in Haparanda (Sweden), 2007.

    Lubomir Filipov and a Swedish women’s performance group called 'Blast', in Haparanda (Sweden), 2007. - 

    Photo by Kenneth Mikko, taken during a travel supported by STEP beyond. Nia Pushkarova, Yana Hadzhikostova and Lubomir Filipov.

Travels suported by ECF's STEP beyond Travel Grants

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) supports the movement of artists and cultural workers within a broader European neighbourhood through our STEP beyond Travel grants.

Travels from/to the countries of South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Turkey are jointly funded by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and ECF. ECF manages the application and the granting procedures.
More detailed info about the STEP beyond Travel Grants guidelines and application procedure on the ECF website.


STEP beyonders (former grantees) are sharing their travel experiences and impressions on Rhiz.eu. Find their stories below.

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    Georgia 2008

    Maia Simonia - Just before my visit, the surprising action of Russia shocked whole world. Fortunately this war hasn’t changed my ...
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    Our visit with Fine Art Sculptors in...

    Vane Nedev, Lazar Stojkov, Tracy Sparks - C ing anew Summer 2010 www.rhiz.eu/artefact-55592-en.html, Our project to search for mentors, instructors, ...
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    An artist's grand-tour to Armenia

    Mikhail Karikis - Staffed with a great multilingual team of active people (Nora Galfayan, Anna Barseghian and employees such as Vahe ...
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    Museum TV Station Belfast

    Vladimer Darakhvelidze - My first visit to Northern Ireland for my upcoming project ‘Museum TV Station’ was short (from 17th September ...
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    Sanctuary

    Ina Pukelyte - Hi everyone, A startup meeting of the international EU- funded project "Sanctuary" took place on the ...
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    Back to Heritage - Zadar 2010

    Otilia Cadar - This year I had the opportunity to paint in the beautiful Zadar. Courtesy of the University of Zadar, for the past 4 ...
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    be berlin

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    Vociferous in the UK

    Anush Apoyan - A short moment of a great gift called life
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    Visit to the Emperor of Monera

    Kvitoslava Holosiy - Not every Dutch would beleive the fact а small independent country had been founded on their territory. Yet, Monera ...
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    Monera

    Iuliia Kysla - When we have arrived to Netherlands, the country of honey cake houses, all we knew about it was the stable image of ...
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    Pushkin Park – Chelyabinsk, South...

    Ulli Böhmelmann - Four-days-trip to Chelyabinsk to develop the exhibition plan (for further information please have a look at ...
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    Comunication Through Art

    Arpine Tokmajyan - At the end of last June I was in Sofia for the first time to participate in “Water Tower” festival. My travel ...
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    And'Art 2010

    Raymond Yiu Sing Wong - Residency and Festival in Morocco
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    Das Automatische Theater

    Yana K.M - The Automatic Theatre is a temporary collective of artists, who have jointly developed a one off evening of ...
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    GALATA

    Diana Kardumyan - Istanbul is one of the most cinematographic cities in the world. It astonishes with its contrasts of old and new, ...
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    Silences in Russian and in German

    Henning Bochert, Eberhard Köhler - Theater director Eberhard Köhler and myself of raum4 ( www.raum4.org ) travelled to St. Petersburg. We planned to ...
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    Gone to Caucasus, Back Soon...

    Martin Clarke, Alicja Rogalska - Residency and Research project in Georgia and Armenia by Alicja Rogalska and Martin Clarke.
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    Creative industries between Lithuania...

    Inga Darguzyte - The purpose of my travel in Armenia was to connect to creative industries during international artist-residence ...
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    OFF SIDE

    Dirk-Jan Visser, Arthur Huizinga - OFF SIDE The story of FK Qarabagh Aghdam, a football club-in-exile FK Qarabagh Aghdam is an Azerbaijani ...
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    A week in Georgia - Tbilisi / Kutaisi

    Melanie Nock - Picking up on what had been seen and heard and discussed when Jonathan Banatvala, Moving Theatre's Artistic Director ...
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    Research Trip to Budapest

    nini palavandishvili - This trip, supported by ECF, was an opportunity to visit Budapest and meet Hungarian or international artists based ...
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    Edinburgh Showcase 2009

    Shaig Safarov - Edinburgh was the stage, and we were all actors. Dreams sometimes come true. I’ve heard about the Fringe since ...
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    Turkey.....Country of Great Diversities

    Armine Avetisyan, Ashot Mirzoyan - With support from Step beyond Mobility Fund of the European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with the Art and ...
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