Partially Funded Fellowships in Various Majors at the Schloss Solitude Academy in Germany

Akademie Schloss Solitude invites international artists, scientists, and business representatives as well as cultural and economic professionals to fellowships opportunities in various majors. It awards fellowships to a maximum of 65 fellows in the following spheres:

•  Visual arts and media.
•  Music and performing arts.
•  Digital Solitude (digital art, gaming, hacking, computing, programming, etc.).
• Architecture and design.
• Literature, and language.
• Societal/Communal-Based Work – Education, mediation, theory.
• Art, science & business/Humanities, social, natural, and economic sciences.

If you get this fellowship, you will have:

• A free, furnished living/working studio including electricity, water, and heating.
• A monthly fellowship grant of € 1,200.
• Travel expenses for arrival and departure (on a one-time basis).
• The Akademie also offers optional additional benefits which are adjustable in accordance with the current budget situation:
• Transport expenses subsidy for the carriage of materials, tools, instruments, and books to Stuttgart and from Stuttgart to the fellow’s home town.
• Project funding and one-off materials subsidy.
• Health insurance in the case of non-EU fellowship candidates.
• Access to a digital film editing studio, a printing and copying room, two small libraries, and several computer workstations.

You must follow the following criteria:

1. The candidates should not be older than 40. 
2. Application rounds for Solitude fellowships are held every two years. 
3. Applications from students enrolled in degree programs will not be considered.
4. PhD students may submit applications. 
5. Scholarships are usually awarded for a period of six, nine, or twelve months.
6. Applications of artist groups are possible.
7. Double applications to the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg gGmbH (Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg) and the AkademieSchloss Solitude are not permitted.
8. Applicants whose applications are refused during the current selection procedure may send in applications during two other rounds (maximum). 
9. Former fellows of the Akademie Schloss Solitude are not eligible.
10. Knowledge of either German and/or English and/or French is a prerequisite for application.
11. The Solitude fellowship is a residential fellowship. Fellows are obliged to spend at least two-thirds of their fellowships at the Akademie.
12. All fellows must have their permanent residence in Stuttgart for the fellowship’s duration (obligation to register residence).

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About Akademie Schloss Solitude: 

Akademie Schloss Solitude is an international Artist-in-Residence Program and has supported approximately 1,400 young artists from more than 120 countries since opening its doors in 1990. It creates a close-knit, global, and transdisciplinary network of Solitude alumni that expands from year to year.

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