A curated board of grants, residencies, fellowships, open calls, and events for artists, XR creators, educators, students, and changemakers, updated regularly by the Tanit XR team. Also published as our LinkedIn newsletter.
EU grants for artists and cultural professionals living in a Creative Europe country, Tunisia included, to spend 7 to 60 days on a project with an international partner in another Creative Europe country: 85 euros a day plus 400 or 800 euros for travel. Sectors are architecture, cultural heritage, design, literature, music, performing arts and visual arts; free to apply. Rolling call with monthly cut-offs (October 31 and November 30, 2026, then the last day of each month from January to April 30, 2027).
Free short-film awards run by Creo with Sony. The 2027 edition adds an Immersive category presented by Meta for 5 to 20 minute films in 3D, 180° or 360° video (AR, MR and XR techniques are not eligible), alongside Fiction, Non-Fiction, Animation, Student and Future Format. Works released January 1, 2025 to December 15, 2026; open worldwide, under-18s need consent. The Immersive winner receives $5,000 and a Meta VR device; shortlisted filmmakers attend a four-day workshop in the US with flights and accommodation covered. Deadline December 15, 2026, 7:00 am CST.
Submissions are open for the 26th Tribeca Festival, New York, June 3 to 12, 2027. Games: $40 early (October 28), $60 official (December 2), $80 extended (March 4, 2027); Shorts: $50 / $70 / $80 to February 3, 2027, with student rates; Digital Creators: $30 / $40 / $60.
FilmGate Interactive 13 runs March 19 to 24, 2027 in Miami and Miami Beach across museums, public spaces and immersive venues. Categories include Virtual Reality Project, Augmented Reality Project, Immersive Experience, Interactive Documentary, Interactive Installation, Dome Experience, Public Immersive Installation and New Games and Applications, plus a market and talks. Open worldwide, any length, fiction or non-fiction; submissions need a budget estimate, technical rider and spatial requirements. Regular deadline December 20, 2026 ($35), late January 18, 2027 ($50); notification February 1, 2027.
Four to six residencies of up to 10 days in the Medina of Tunis and Zaghouan between October 2026 and March 2027, for research and new work tied to local heritage and communities, with an average budget of about EUR 6,000 each covering the artist fee and production. Open to individual artists of any nationality with provable experience; new media is eligible and applying is free. Proposals are reviewed every two months from October 20, so earlier is better.
Africa No Filter grants of $500 to $3,000 for African storytellers under 35, in Africa or the diaspora, whose work challenges stereotypes about Africa. Applicants need English or French, two years of experience, 5,000 or more followers and membership of the African Narrative Collective; film projects and equipment are not funded. Open until December 31, 2026 or until 12 to 14 storytellers are chosen.
Build an open-source app or tool that improves the attendee experience at ACM CHI 2027, submitting a working prototype, a walkthrough video of up to five minutes and a public repository. Accepted teams demo at CHI in Pittsburgh, May 10 to 14, 2027. Free to enter; prize amounts and travel support are not stated.
Open call for the new media festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 11 to 20, 2027, including a category for virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments alongside installations, audio, robotics, performance and video. International artists can submit, though international shipping may not be covered. Fee $30 for one entry, $25 each for more; hardship fee waivers on request.
ACM's conference on designing interactive systems, June 28 to July 2, 2027, with online presentation sessions June 21 to 25, so a paper or pictorial can be presented without travelling. Title and abstract due January 11, 2027, full submission January 18, 2027, Anywhere on Earth; notification March 19. Pictorials suit visual and practice-based work. Free to submit; registration if accepted.
Up to 7,000 euros for artists and cultural actors from the Arab region to travel for professional purposes: fairs, artistic residencies, forums, conferences, seminars and training or capacity-building workshops. The grant covers flights, visa costs, accommodation, internal transport and partial living expenses, and Culture Resource can write a supporting letter to the relevant embassy after the contract is signed. Either the departure or the arrival country must be in the Arab region; individuals and groups may apply, and there is no application fee. Applications are accepted year-round and judged in three rounds, with cut-offs at 16:00 Beirut time on January 16 (results February 28), May 29 (results July 1) and September 17 (results October 31); the activity you are travelling for must fall after the results date of the round you apply to.
Curated exhibition of completed or proposed installation, performance, time-based, interactive and screen-based works for the virtual Creativity & Cognition conference, June 13 to 16, 2027. The theme, Creativity and the Unseen, covers craft traditions, tacit knowledge, memory, archives and cultural heritage. Written submission of up to 2,000 words via PCS; accepted works appear in the ACM Digital Library with no article processing charge, and one author must register and present. Abstract due January 19, 2027, full submission January 25, 2027, 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth.
A long-running, artist-friendly festival for VR and MR stories, 360° cinema, live and spatial performance, WebXR and installation work, held in Los Angeles and online February 22 – March 9, 2027. Rolling deadlines: earlybird September 24, regular November 24, late December 24, extended January 24, 2027 (fees on FilmFreeway). Notifications February 7.
International competition for XR, AR and VR projects at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in Greece, March 4 to 14, 2027. Works must be completed within the last 24 months and be a world, international or European premiere. Free to enter through the festival portal.
Online digital art prize from Aion Laboratory (Ise-Shima Art Company, Japan) for computer art, digital installation, interactive systems, video, animation, sound, AR, VR and other new media. Artists of any nationality and age; previously exhibited or awarded works are eligible. Entry fee JPY 3,000 per work (about $20). One grand prize of JPY 50,000 and up to 35 further award certificates; results May 5, 2027. Deadline March 1, 2027, 23:59 GMT.
Open to artists and collectives aged 18 and over from any country, in any art form. No submission fee; you apply with a .ART domain (bought separately) that points to your site, portfolio or social profile. Prizes: a $15,000 grand prize, artist residencies in France, Spain and Georgia, a $3,000 package for an artist working in augmented reality, a Times Square screen showing in May 2027 and a 5,000 tez prize for blockchain artists. Deadline November 1, 2026.
Up to $15,000 from the Archaeological Institute of America for projects that preserve an archaeological site and involve the local community: conservation planning including photographic and digital documentation, physical conservation, preventive measures and monitoring, training, and public outreach and education. Applications close November 1, 2026; awards announced by March 1, 2027. No fee stated.
Prague's human rights documentary festival, March 10 to 18, 2027, accepts virtual reality, interactive and 360-degree projects for its Virtual Reality Competition alongside documentaries. Works must be finished in 2025 to 2027, in English or with English subtitles. Documentary entries cost EUR 30, waived for many production countries.
UnitedXR Europe (Brussels, December 7 to 9, 2026) is taking proposals for XR apps and experiences, community meetups, jobs and skills programmes and side events. Selected partners get free passes, reserved space and times, a calendar listing and marketing support. Free to submit, reviewed as received, answers by November 20.
The world's largest annual space and science hackathon, run by NASA with 17 partner space agencies, held November 14 to 15, 2026. Registration is open and free, and the site lists 14 challenges plus local in-person events by city alongside a fully remote option; teams form on the platform. Open to anyone interested in space and science, at any age, skill level or professional background.
Online VR build competition from Meta with $1 million in prizes: 20 awards of $20,000 to $100,000 across Entertainment, Gaming and Productivity tracks. Entrants must be 18 or older and members of the free Meta VR Start Program; residents of Brazil, Quebec and sanctioned regions are excluded. Free to enter.
Tech-based education solutions at prototype stage or later, from organisations or individuals anywhere. Selected Solver teams get a $10,000 grant, access to more than $1M in prize funding and a nine-month programme of coaching and workshops, with four-day in-person events in Cambridge and New York. The 2027 challenge looks for tools that strengthen teachers' practice, work offline or in low-resource settings, include assistive or multilingual support, or improve assessment. Deadline November 2, 2026, 12:00 pm EST. Free.
$1,000 micro-grants for conservation and climate projects, no strings attached. The chapter reviews on a fixed bi-monthly cycle rather than rolling: the next application deadlines are September 25, 2026 and November 27, 2026, then January 29, 2027.
Copenhagen's documentary festival (March 10 to 21, 2027) takes VR, AR, mixed-media and installation works that premiered after April 1, 2026. Deadline November 3, 2026 for works finished after September 1, all time zones; preview links by November 25. Entry fee 150 DKK (about EUR 20) for interactive works; creators from OECD DAC-list countries, which include Tunisia, can ask for a waiver by email, up to two projects per company.
IEEE VR's immersive-art exhibition (Melbourne, Feb 27 – Mar 3, 2027), themed “Sharing Realities: Immersive Experiences Across Boundaries.” Previously unexhibited works only; accepted artists get a free full conference registration and select works receive $500 awards. Underrepresented and Indigenous artists especially encouraged.
Four art projects co-created with residents, craftspeople and associations around the heritage of the Medina of Tunis, part of the EU-funded IN-SITU project (Interreg NEXT Italy-Tunisia). Each gets a flat fee of up to EUR 3,000 plus production costs and cross-border travel; digital and hybrid practices are eligible. Open to artists, collectives and arts organisations established or resident in Tunisia, free, one PDF by email; co-creation runs January to March 2027.
Grant program for creatives aged 21 to 30 from any country whose projects advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals, run with the UN Office for Partnerships. Selected participants receive EUR 20,000, one-on-one mentorship, online masterclasses and a trip to an in-person event in London; the cohort is notified in April 2027 and the program runs fall 2027 to September 2028. Free to apply. Deadline November 9, 2026, 11:59 pm GMT.
£10,000 Main Prize and £1,000 Emerging Prize (students and graduates of the last three years), any discipline and any theme, two works per entry. Entry £25 until October 11, 2026, late entries £35 until October 18. Shortlisted work is exhibited in autumn 2027.
Two residencies on the theme AGENCY (human agency as AI systems act on our behalf), for US-based artists only. Virtual Residency, November 4, 2026 to February 12, 2027: $2,000 stipend, mentorship and Eyebeam's technical network, for artists living in the US outside New York; deadline October 11, 2026, 11:59 pm ET. NYC Residency, March 15 to June 11, 2027: $5,000 for artists in the five boroughs, on site one day a week; deadline November 15, 2026. Individuals only, no full-time students, no fee. Not open outside the US.
Goethe-Institut grants of EUR 15,000 to 30,000, up to 75% of production costs, for new music, theatre, dance or performance coproductions made with a partner in Germany; digital and hybrid projects qualify. Applicants are organisations based outside Germany and must contact their local Goethe-Institut before applying. Projects run January to December 2027; free to apply.
PhotoVogue's first open call for photographers and video makers aged 18+ from the Middle East and North Africa and the diaspora. Submit a series of up to 15 images, or images and video; AI-generated work is not accepted. Free to enter; three grants totalling $8,000 ($4,500, $2,000, $1,500), with festival presentation and possible Condé Nast publication.
Festival for fulldome and immersive cinema at Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado Boulder, April 21 to 25, 2027. Categories: feature and short dome films, live dome experiences, interactive dome experiences, completed after January 1, 2025. Regular deadline October 16, 2026, then December 4 and January 8, 2027; fees on FilmFreeway.
A 36-hour XR hackathon at Stanford, November 13–15, 2026, with around 400 hackers, $300k+ of loaned headsets and hardware, industry workshops and a prize pool that topped $30k last year. Open to all skill levels and non-Stanford participants; the application takes under 10 minutes. Priority deadline October 2 (decisions October 9), final deadline October 16 (decisions October 23).
The largest hackathon for underrepresented genders in tech, hosted by the University of Maryland on October 17 to 18, 2026, at the College Park Marriott and online in Gather. People of all genders are welcome and no coding experience is needed; there are Beginner, General, Research and Startup tracks. Hacker registration is open with no closing date published.
Two calls from the Society for Arts and Technology in Montréal, both closing October 18, 2026 with results in January 2027. Dome Production Residency: create and present a work for the Satosphère, an 18 m immersive dome, in the 2027-28 programme; open to artists, collectives, researchers and interdisciplinary teams. Research-Creation Residencies in Technological Arts 2027-28: three projects at CAD 10,000 each with two months of SAT support and facilities, on live arts meeting technological arts around human movement; open to non-profits, collectives and individual artists. No nationality limit stated; travel and housing for the dome call are not stated. Free.
Twenty-five production grants a year for artists and writers under 35 who originate from an Arab country, living in the region or in the diaspora: up to €8,500 for visual arts, music and sound art, performing arts and literature, up to €13,000 for cinema. XR and new-media projects fit under visual arts or cinema; the work must take place in or benefit the Arab region. Deadline October 19, 2026, 16:00 Beirut time; results end of March 2027.
Six-month online residency, January to June 2027, for three artists who build one shared VRChat world together, premiered at L.E.V. Matadero in Madrid in September 2027. Each artist receives EUR 10,000 gross plus a shared production budget of up to EUR 15,000. Applicants need VR development experience (Unity, 3D or 2D art, animation, sound, narrative or UX); no nationality limit or fee is listed. Deadline October 23, 2026, 23:59 CEST.
Montreal's International Festival of Films on Art, March 11 to 21, 2027, takes interactive and immersive works, media art and art documentaries, including art and science, technology and archaeology. Works must not have screened in Montreal before. Fees CAD 33 to 58 until October 19, then CAD 45 to 70 until October 26.
Site-specific installations and participatory projects, including immersive experiences, for the Matsu Islands in Taiwan, around three axes: the island's culture and stone houses, its Cold War outpost history, and ocean ecology. Each selected proposal receives up to NTD 800,000 (tax included); open to artists worldwide. Deadline October 30, 2026, 17:00 GMT+8; the exhibition runs August 20 to November 7, 2027.
Three- or six-month residencies in Paris (solo) or three months (collectives) in 2027, with a furnished studio apartment, EUR 1,000 a month, a EUR 3,000 production grant and a round trip to Paris. Open to artists of any nationality in visual, performing and digital arts with at least five years of professional practice and an international exhibition record; art and science and ecological issues are priority themes. Free to apply.
Internet awards across websites, apps, video, social, podcasts, games, creators, AI and immersive work, including Best Use of Augmented Reality, Best VR Headset Experience and Best Immersive Technology Innovation. Paid entry: at the October 30, 2026 early deadline, $105 for students, $255 for discounted categories, $395 for a creator single entry and $525 for a general single entry; later deadlines cost more.
Free call for artists under 35 and fine arts students, from Italy and abroad, working with AI, VR, AR, software art and other digital tools. Twenty finalists join a group show in Parma in spring 2027 during the festival's 11th edition; four prizes of EUR 1,500 each. Themes: Parma heritage, care, and sustainability and data ecology. Travel is not covered. Deadline October 31, 2026.
Full delegate access and meals at the One Young World Summit in Cape Town, November 3 to 6, 2026, for people aged 18 to 35 working on positive change; travel and accommodation are decided case by case and visa fees are the scholar's own. Only nationals of the 53 countries listed on the page can apply (Tunisia and the United States are not on the list; Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Chad, Niger and Djibouti are). Free to apply, reviewed on a rolling basis until October 31, 2026.
Six-month fellowship (April to September 2027) for early-stage social justice changemakers testing a new idea. Fellows receive a $30,000 unrestricted award, a $1,000 healthcare stipend, covered travel to three in-person convenings, coaching and mentorship; a childcare stipend is available. Applicants must be 18 or older and based in the United States (no visa sponsorship); no organization, finished product or business plan is required. Free to apply, deadline October 31, 2026, 11:59 pm ET.
Photo contest documenting Tunisia's more than 2,600 listed historic and cultural sites; photos are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 between October 1 and 31, 2026. Prizes are 700, 400 and 250 TND plus a 250 TND special prize, and the top 10 go on to the international round. Free.
Residencies in Paris between April 2027 and April 2028 for artists and cultural professionals living outside France, for research and creative projects. Apply on the Institut français eMundus platform by October 8, 2026, 23:59 Paris time.
One-month residencies in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California, at no cost to artists, open to national and international applicants; media arts and technology-driven work are a listed discipline. Five cohorts from February to November 2027, one of them the Leonardo@Djerassi art and science cohort (June 22 to July 27). Applications close October 9, 2026.
Proposals for the 7th PXR Conference on live performance in VR, AR and MR, late February 2027, run by Single Thread and Electric Company Theatre. Three routes: VR projects presented remotely in VRChat, AR/MR projects at venues in Toronto, Kingston and Vancouver, and 2D talks or demos by livestream. Open to Canadian and international creators; no fee listed. Deadline October 9, 2026, 11:59 pm ET.
Speaker submissions for AWE USA 2027 (June 14 to 17, 2027, Long Beach) are open through the conference portal. No closing date has been published yet.
International game design competition inviting young people aged 10 to 25 to build digital games inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with prize categories for ages 10 to 18 and university age. Educators sign up classrooms and students worldwide can submit; participation is free. Sign-ups for the 2026-2027 cycle are open and the two themes are published: “Everyone Belongs Here”, on fostering belonging, and “Bounce Back”, on building resilience. The submission deadlines for this cycle have not been published yet.
The Holy Art Gallery runs a rolling series of open calls for physical and digital exhibitions in London and other cities, with the current editions and their closing dates listed on the open-calls page. Submitting is free, but selected artists pay an exhibition fee, published as £280 for one physical work and £380 for two, or £95 to £150 for one to three digital works. Budget for that fee before applying.
UNESCO is seeking good practices advancing SDG 4, inclusive, equitable quality education and lifelong learning. Selected practices are featured in the SDG 4 Knowledge Hub and shared globally.
Global network launched at COP25 connecting youth-led organizations working on climate action across education, sciences, culture and communication. UNESCO states that calls for membership are open to youth-led organizations; membership is applied for through the form on the network page, and there is no published closing date.
VIVERSE funds creators building web-based 3D worlds, immersive art and games, with funding negotiated per project. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and no prior WebXR experience is required; Unity WebGL, Three.js, PlayCanvas, Babylon.js, A-Frame and Godot are supported.
Tanit XR is powered by volunteers: 3D scanning, model cleanup, XR development, historical research, writing, translation, and storytelling. Join from Tunisia or anywhere in the world, all experience levels welcome, fully remote friendly.
Ongoing call from the XR Women Museum for contributions to its Community Garden: 3D and XR-ready objects, animated or interactive “pollinators”, botanical or spatial fragments, and conceptual world-building elements. The museum describes it as a living relational system rather than a submission pool for selection, so contributions join an evolving XR ecosystem that outlasts any single exhibition. Submissions go through a Google form linked from the museum page and there is no fee or published closing date.
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