Cultural Mobility Yearbook 2026
As part of its multiannual programme co-funded by the European Union, On the Move has published the fifth edition of the Cultural Mobility Yearbook, with an additional focus on the European Union’s neighbouring countries.
The Yearbook has a quantitative and qualitative analysis of calls for participation in residencies, meetings, fellowships, training activities, and other funded mobility opportunities for artists and culture professionals that were published on the On the Move website between 1 January and 31 December 2025 (with a few comparative references to the same data from previous years).
In 2025, this consists of a dataset of 573 open calls involving 118 countries and territories as mobility organisers or destinations.
There were 80 open calls involving Asia and 472 open calls involving Europe. Europe continues to be the region with the highest level of mobility activity. Across Asia there were 31 countries that were destinations for mobility activities, which is a more diverse spread when compared with 2024 (which had a total of 23 countries). Japan and China were among the destination countries in Asia with the greatest number of calls.