Αpplications need to demonstrate that they are building on the pilot project implemented between December 2020 and June 2021, by providing touring opportunities for artists and companies as well as festivals and venues in diversifying and internationalising their programmes.
Applications will also need to address the challenges and the needs in the performing arts sectors (excluding live music performances) and strive to reduce inequalities and imbalances in cross-border touring and digital distribution of performing arts works.

Applications must address the following two cross-cutting issues:

• Inclusion, diversity, and gender equality.
• Environment and the fight against climate change.

Αpplications must show how the activities take into account the following dimensions:

•  contributing to the creation of conditions that help the sector to ‘grow’ in a social, human, artistic, economic and environmental sense, with a long-term perspective.
• incorporating activities that proactively reach out to people, both performing arts professionals and audiences, from different geographical and socioeconomic backgrounds, in order to ensure their equal access to distribution opportunities and a diverse artistic offer.
• incorporating specific support to Ukrainian artists, cultural professionals and organisations working in the performing arts sector.
• working towards a solid framework with an equal representation of various players in the performing arts ecosystem: the sub-sectors, the artistic disciplines, the size and type of the organisations, the balance between emerging and established artists, gender balance, and geographic location, the balance between urban and rural touring destinations.