Grants 
                and mobility
              Quite 
                a lot of countries, through their governments, created financial 
                helps and networks of grants, and/or residencies were founded 
                by private companies and foundations.
              So, 
                the artists can direcly contact the Cultural Department of the 
                Embassies of the countries where they want to work in order to 
                know the welcoming conditions, the financial helps they propose, 
                as well as the calls for application.
               
                In the framework of the UNESCO World Observatory the existing 
                measures in several of its members states are gathered in the 
                website:
                http://portal.unesco.org/culture/.../ev.php-URL_ID=32972&URL_DO_TOPIC_URL&URL_SECTION=210.htm
              In 
                2009 too, UNESCO launched a huge questionnaire near by numerous 
                national and professional cultural institutions in order to appreciate 
                better the legal consequences on the artworks, cultural goods 
                and services, and the international mobility of the artists.
              This 
                questionnaire can be viewed on line at the address:
                http://www.on-the-move.org/files/In%20Transit_Annexe%20FR_FINAL;pdf
               
                In October 2011, in Berlin, the German IAA AIAP Committee organized 
                a Symposium about 'Artists in Transit: how to become an artist 
                in residence', dedicated to this phenomenon and to the motives 
                of mobility, focusing on the practical ramifications of mobility 
                on the life and works of artists: 
                http://igbk.de/en/projects/ artists-in-transit-2011
              
                The networks:
              The 
                following links give, region per region, and quite often country 
                per country, the main networks (grants and residencies) already 
                existing in the framework of the artists’ mobility. This 
                list is not an exhaustive one.
              The 
                websites of the IAA AIAP National Committees give information 
                about the residencies, the grants, as well as the contemporary 
                art prizes delived by their country.
              
                World Residencies networks