m2act Call for Action 2025
Space and Time – strengthening collaboration and changing working methods sustainably
Would you like to tackle a current challenge in your collaboration or in your working method?
Do you lack the space, time and money to start reflecting or to make a change?
Are there any experts, tools, methods or processes that you would like to try?
Does your project reflect the goals of m2act: fair practice, sustainability and open knowledge transfer?
Are you willing to share your experiences so that other cultural professionals can be inspired, too?
Do you have time to work out your project in detail by summer 2025 and implement and finalise it by summer 2026?
The m2act Call for Action 2025 is aimed at companies, theatres, festivals, production offices, networks and other permanent formations and structures in the performing arts. Its focus is on projects that improve the everyday working life of artists, thus contributing to structural change in small steps. The goal is a shared experience and a strengthened team spirit.
How is the application submitted?
Applications can be submitted from 15 January to 3 March 2025 using the Migros Culture Percentage online form. You will need to provide (among other things) the following information about your project:
Project description
- What is your challenge or opportunity?
- Why is it important and urgent to address this challenge?
- How do you intend to tackle this challenge? What are you planning?
- What expertise or instruments (tools, methods, processes) would you like to use?
- What is your long-term vision for your collaboration?
- How and to what extent does your project contribute to fair practice and sustainable structures in your day-to-day work?
- How can other organisations/cultural professionals from the performing arts benefit from supporting your project?
- How do you want to share your learnings?
Timetable/roadmap:
- How and when will the intervention/process take place? Who is involved?
Biographies
- Brief bios of the participants
Budget:
- What costs can be expected?
Conditions for a successful outcome
- The project
- is developed and realised co-creatively,
- is fair and sustainable in practice,
- is impact-orientated,
- needs to be professionally advanced and implemented,
- is developed and realised in Switzerland,
- The primary project leaders are residents in Switzerland.
- Added value/value proposition for many actors and projects in the performing arts is recognisable.
- The project is planned and implemented by a team.
Enter now!
Dates & selection procedure
- Start date: 15 January 2025
- Open Q&A via MS Teams (4–5 p.m.): Questions about the call for proposals and the funding process will be answered by the m2act team: 28 January 2025(German/English) and 06 February 2025 (French/Italian)
- Deadline (23.59 p.m.): 3 March 2025
- Invitation to present the project (or rejection): 7 April 2025
- Presentation of the project (by teams): 24 April 2025
- Dispatch of acceptances and cancellations: 25 April 2025
- First meeting: 13 May or 15 May 2025
- Second interview: mid-June 2025
- Start of implementation: Summer 2025
- Finalisation of project and final meeting: Summer 2026
Detailed information on the call for proposals, the process and the conditions
Information sheet m2act «Call for Action 2025»
Open Q&A
Do you have any questions about the Call for Action 2025? We are available on the following days:
In German & English on 28 January 2025, 4–5 p.m.: Join
In French & Italian on 06 February 2025, 4–5 p.m.: Join
Information on further funding formats for the performing arts offered by the Federation of Migros Cooperatives
Ideation and diffusion
Promoting young talent via Sparx
Coaching via doubletheatre, doubledance and doublecabaret
Regional project funding via cooperatives