EU funding & transnational collaboration

Brigitta & Gergely will dive into EU funding opportunities and share their experience in developing international projects, building partnerships, grant writing and what it takes to manage an EU project successfully. They will focus on the Creative Europe scheme, having extensive experience in that. 
During the workshop you will have the chance to assess motivations, resources for and expectations from international collaborations.

There be a break in the middle of the session.
There will be breakout sessions. 
The first part will be a presentation by Brigitta & Gergely, the second part will be work in smaller groups in breakout rooms where interaction is required, and then we will have a sharing and Q&A with voluntary interaction opportunities
To have the camera on is nly mandatory in the breakout rooms, though it helps to see faces also in the collective sessions. :)

Brigitta Kovács is an artist manager & cultural producer. Since 2018, she has dedicated her work to support emerging artists in developing their career, finding collaborators, funding, presentation opportunities locally and internationally. She is working as a freelancer cultural producer, but in an official Partnership with Workshop Foundation since 2023, as they are mutually supporting each other in development, strategy and project implementations. Brigitta is responsible for the international development of the Foundation in collaboration with director Gergely Talló, and works as the project manager of the Creative Europe projects WSF is involved in. She is the co-initiator and main project coordinator of the Next Stage program. In 2021 she was a CEC ArtsLink fellow, hosted by Movement Research (NYC) and has been running exchanges between the US and Hungary ever since. She is producer and co-curator of Hungary L!ve Festival, an interdisciplinary festival showcasing Hungarian contemporary artworks and artists in New York. The different activities are linked by her mission is to improve the precarious working conditions of artists and cultural workers in the performing arts field, and initiate mutually beneficial partnerships that can aid more sustainable career paths and strategies.

Gergely Talló – Director, Workshop Foundation – HU. 
It was in Pécs, one of the biggest cities of Hungary that he first engaged in cultural and educational organizing, managing at Laterna Magica association. The association under his leadership focused on motion picture programs linked directly to the educational profile of the University of Pécs. He moved to Budapest in May 2000. and started working as Director of Workshop Foundation (WSF). Since then he has gotten to know the participants, problems and background of Hungarian and International contemporary art life, especially that of contemporary dance. In 2013 WSF opened a center with 3 new dance studios, with an open office which is able to welcome 10-12 artists/art managers at the same time. With the leadership of Gergely Talló WSF offers 50 movement based and dance classes per a week, 4 professional dance studios in two different places in Budapest and works with/for more than 200 artists of the local and international contemporary performing art communities. Gergely Talló is active as a curator, expert in different international networks and projects e.g. Aerowaves, Life Long Burning, Nature of Us, Philadelphia-Budapest -Sofia Trilateral Cultural Exchange program and he is partner of Movement Research (New York) Global Practice Sharing program.

This session addresses cultural producers who seek to initiate or manage international collaborations. 
No specific level of experience is needed. The session focuses on EU grant writing and international collaborations.
We’re glad to welcome all producers, both freelancers and producers who work in institutions alike.