Since 2003, we have supported more than 1,800 trips across 59 countries through our STEP Beyond Travel Grants programme. The programme’s tenth anniversary provided a chance for us to look back at our achievements, but also to start looking ahead.

We have prepared the publication 10 Years STEP Beyond Travel Grants (2003-2013) offering an overview of the past, present and future of ECF’s flagship mobility grants programme, as well as giving a voice to some of the cultural change-makers involved.

Join us by delving into these pages, stepping beyond the borders of today’s society and considering the challenges, opportunities and dilemmas for ECF’s STEP Beyond programme and where it may lead us ten years from now.

The first section includes a short film about three grantees, and the impact that the grant has had on their work.
The second part reflects on ECF’s mobility programmes throughout the last 20 years.
And the third part looks ahead to the future of STEP Beyond, through the lens of sustainability.

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Special thanks goes to the Open Society Foundations, our partner for STEP Beyond travels for the Southern Caucasus and Turkey, for co-funding this publication.

You can also read each section of the eBook from our Library:

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Introduction to the 10 years of STEP Beyond Travel Grants eBook

The tenth anniversary of ECF’s Step Beyond Travel Grants programme in 2013 represented a milestone. It was a moment to look back at our results so far but also, more importantly, to start looking ahead at the years to come and the changes we hope to catalyse. This publication takes a look at the past, present and future, and gives a voice to the people involved in the programme as well.

People: Focus on three STEP Beyond Travel Grantees

In the 10 years of STEP Beyond Travel Grants publication, we feature three grantees who explain what receiving a STEP Beyond Travel Grant has meant for their work and how it has helped them to forge sustainable working relationships with colleagues in other parts of Europe. Read more about the grantees and watch the short film profiling them and their work.

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ECF and its cultural mobility schemes

The second part of the 10 years of STEP Beyond Travel Grants publication reflects on ECF’s promotion of mobility and celebrates the many inspirational developments, initiatives and change-makers that we have met during ten years of STEP Beyond Travel Grants.

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Culture and sustainability

The third part of the 10 years of STEP Beyond Travel Grants publication looks ahead, at an evolutionary path that STEP Beyond Travel Grants could take. It focuses on one of the major challenges of our times, sustainability. What role can arts and culture play in the transition that we need to make to a more sustainable society? And how could the STEP Beyond Travel Grants programme contribute to this development?

Afterword by Katherine Watson

For the past ten years, the STEP Beyond Travel Grant programme has enabled a diversity of young artists, cultural workers and researchers to travel, to transcend and make connections across geographic, cultural and discipline borders. Read ECF Director Katherine Watson's afterword to the publication celebrating 10 years of STEP Beyond Travel Grants.