CULTURE MOVES EUROPE - GRANT TEAM
Culture Moves Europe is the largest European cultural mobility scheme. It provides mobility grants to artists and cultural professionals in all 40 Creative Europe countries. For a period of 3 years (2022-2025), 7.000 artists and cultural professionals will receive a mobility grant.
It is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
Culture Moves Europe has 2 different actions lines: the Individual Mobility Action directly targeting artists and cultural professionals willing to implement a project in a different country, and the Residency Action targeting legal entities willing to host from 1 to 5 artists for a longer duration to implement a residency project.
The Grant team (currently composed of 4 full-time staff members) is the first contact point of applicants and selected grantees, and manages a wide range of tasks, from the application stage until final reporting.
Within the framework of Culture Moves Europe, interns fulfil the following tasks:
Support to Grant Team (90%):
Under the supervision of the Senior Grant Coordintator and together with the other grant officers, the tasks include:
- Support with the external evaluation processes: eligibility checks, contact with evaluators, etc.
- Send notifications and general messages through the Goethe-Application Portal/email to applicants and grantees;
- Liaise with beneficiaries regarding their specific questions, preparation of contracts and amendments to contracts, etc;
- Check the status of mobilities and update internal tracking with changes;
- Read and check activity/residency reports;
- Management and organization of content and folders;
- Support with the organization of online info-sessions and other events;
- Support with compiling data together with the Monitoring and Evaluation officer;
Other tasks (10%):
Depending on project’s needs, you could be involved with the work of other teams.
Our requirements:
- Interest in developing knowledge on grant management and for the cultural and creative sectors in Europe;
- Interest in sustainability and/or inclusion topics would be a strong asset;
- Good IT skills, especially standard MS Office applications (Word, Excel and Outlook);
- Positive ‘can-do’ attitude and creative problem solver;
- Strong organisational skills, eye for details, and ability to prioritise;
- Excellent command of written and spoken English (C1), German and other foreign language skills would be an advantage;
- Familiariy with results-oriented project management;
- Ability to work well independently and in a team with people from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
Cultural Relations Platform:
The Cultural Relations Platform is an EU funded Platform, set up with the overall objective to foster increased role for culture in EU’s external relations through engagement with cultural operators worldwide. It supports the European Union and its institutions (namely the European Commission in Brussels and global EU Delegations) in engaging in meaningful and sustainable cultural relations with partner countries.
Activities of the Platform include:
- To provide support/technical assistance on cultural policy in external relations and international cultural cooperation via studies, mappings, trainings on cultural policy, working meetings with representatives of local cultural operators, etc.;
- To organize yearly training programmes for cultural leaders (the location being in Europe) and regional ad-hoc trainings of similar nature (the location being outside of Europe);
- To support cooperation among cultural and creative sectors via provision of specialised services (participation in book fairs, performing arts markets/ meetings, networking activities, curatorship for events, trainings, organisation of festivals' side events, etc.)
As an intern, you will learn about working in international cultural relations by working with the project team on diverse activities and support the project team members in monitoring results of activities and attending internal and external meetings with partners as well as EU institutions.
Within the framework of the Cultural Relations Platform , interns fulfil the following tasks:
- Supporting the project team in the day-to-day administrative, financial and logistical management of activities;
- Working closely with the financial department on finance-related administrative tasks including following up on payment procedures;
- Supporting the project team members in drafting the reports for the EU institutions;
- Attending to administrative matters required in the mobilisation of short-term experts, including drafting contracts, processing payments related to activities, following up on timesheets, etc.;
- Assisting the preparation of the audit reports for the external auditor;
- Conducting any desk research and other ad-hoc tasks when required.
Our requirements:
- Proficieny in English
- Good MS Office competences
- Attention to details
Cultural Programming
In its cultural programming work, the Goethe-Institut in Brussels arranges encounters between artists and scholars from Germany, Belgium and other European countries for an international and Belgian audience. The cultural programmes organised by the Goethe-Institut with its partners include exhibitions, dance and theatre, film, music and literature/word.
Currently, internships in the cultural programming are only possible as part of a compulsory internship.
Within the framework of cultural work, interns fulfil the following tasks:
- Collaboration in the preparation and implementation of cultural events
- Public relations, e.g. editing press releases, invitations and programme information
- Support for artists and speakers
- Translations
- Research work
- Processing external enquiries
- Maintenance of the website of the Goethe-Institut Brussels
- Cooperation with other European cultural institutes in Brussels within the framework of EUNIC
- Assumption of further tasks to be carried out largely independently
- Willingness to carry out routine work
In the field of cultural work we expect from interns
- Good knowledge of English
- Good knowledge of either German, French or Dutch (preferably two or more)
- Good knowledge of the European, Belgium and German cultural scene
- Willingness to do routine work
- Willingness to work flexible hours
- Willingness to work independently
We offer versatile opportunities to work independently and creatively in an international environment, an expense allowance, flexible working hours, personal support, team and project work.
