On the Move — what cultural mobility offers and how to find travel grants

Finding a grant for an international trip usually means going through dozens of foundation websites one by one.
On the Move brings cultural mobility funding together in one place.
The team has been checking and adding opportunities by hand since 2002.
As of the date checked, 15 September 2026, the catalogue holds more than 2,000 grants, scholarships and residencies and over 60 funding guides.

Instead of a scattered search
The catalogue holds more than 2,000 grants, scholarships and residencies for international travel.
There are also over 60 separate funding guides.
Each guide covers a specific country or region, from Germany and Poland to Japan and Brazil.
Among them is a guide specifically for Belarus and Belarusians living abroad.
It is rare for a major aggregator to give this particular audience its own dedicated guide.
The guides are not made by the team alone — they are produced in partnership with other organisations, including the European Union.

What actually makes it into the catalogue
On the Move only lists opportunities where the organiser covers at least part of the travel costs.
That can be a stipend, a general budget or direct reimbursement.
Free applications are given priority; a paid application or selection fee lowers an opportunity’s chances of being listed.
Another filter is geographic openness.
A competition open only to citizens of a single country does not make the cut.
The mobility of people themselves takes priority here over the transport of artworks.

How to search, and in which language
The catalogue is open with no registration required.
Anyone can filter by country, region or guide language.
The guides are published in six languages — English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Welsh.
A separate section lists every deadline in one place.
The platform does not advise on visas or tax questions itself, but links out to specialist sources.

The guides cover far more than Europe
The guides cover Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
There are also thematic guides layered on top of the geographic ones — for at-risk and displaced artists, for greening artistic residencies, for cultural journalists.
Most of the guides are still focused on Europe.
That said, the other regions get their own full sections, not just a couple of token lines.

More than just a database
On the Move is not only a catalogue — it is also a network.
It started as a website run by IETM in 2002.
It became an independent Belgian association in 2005, and a fully structured network in 2010.
Today the network has around 78 organisations from more than 29 countries, plus a small number of individual members.

Who funds it, and why
The platform has been supported by France’s Ministry of Culture since 2010.
From 2025 to 2028, it is also co-funded by the European Union, under the Creative Europe programme.
You can also join the network as a member, for a fee — €40 a year for an individual, and €80 to €450 for an organisation depending on its budget.
That membership is an optional extra, though.
It is not a requirement for using the catalogue itself.
The catalogue and guides stay free for readers regardless of membership.

Who it is especially good for
Good fit if: you need a grant or stipend specifically for travel and accommodation, not a prize-fund competition.
Also if you would rather not have paid-entry opportunities prioritised for you.
The guide for your own country or region is especially useful, including the dedicated one for Belarus.
May not be a fit if: you are after opportunities that do not cover travel — competitions, exhibitions, publications.
The platform deliberately does not collect that whole category.
It also will not work as a place to post your CV — On the Move says outright that this is not what it does.