The mentors in Forecast Mentorships’ 2025–26 edition use modes of defamiliarization in their work, expanding the tools and mediums they work with to generate new propositions. By conceptually and technically alienizing familiar creative possibilities, they each venture into uncharted realms in their own practice.

How to Apply

The Forecast Mentorships are designed to support audacious thinkers and creators in producing their project ideas with support from experts. Applicants are encouraged from all disciplines to propose concepts that demonstrate originality and a clear vision. The mentors’ fields in the 2025–26 edition are listed here.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm CET on Monday, February 10, 2025.

To guarantee fair conditions for everyone, any applications that are submitted after the deadline cannot be accept.
Applying is only possible via the online application form.
Make sure that you hold the copyrights to all material submitted.
Forecast only accepts applications in English. Furthermore, all public events and communication take place in English.

What should the application deliver?

There are no restrictions regarding formats, disciplines, or genres, and no overarching theme. We strongly advise you to reflect on the mentor’s approach to creative production before applying, as well as on the public nature of the Forecast Forum and Festival, which requires that you convey your project to an audience.

These elements are essential to your proposal:

• Your Idea: Clearly define your project idea and express what you want to realize.
• Mentorship Expectations: Describe what the project could gain from the mentorship, and your expectations of the mentoring process. Please be specific. Do you have a particular issue that you think the mentor could guide you through? What do you want to learn?
• Participation Format: Sketch the content and format of your participation at the Forecast Forum and Festival. What is the relation between the format (performance, showcase, talk, workshop, screening, installation, etc.), and what you are seeking to convey?
• Production: Identify the key materials that you need, as well as production steps.

Forecast aims to facilitate a productive working relationship between a mentee and a mentor, to promote a deep transdisciplinary exchange, and to help extend professional networks.

Forecast is not a grant. Although our nominees and mentees receive an artist fee and production budget, this should not be the main purpose for applying. A functioning and fruitful relationship between mentor and mentee is what Forecast exists for.

Forecast Timeline

Forecast mentorships unfolds in two phases, each culminating in an in-person public presentation at Radialsystem in Berlin.

Phase 1
February 10, 2025, (11:59pm CET): Deadline for applications

March 24–April 2, 2025: Online interviews

April 10, 2025: Nominees announced (three nominees in each mentorship field)

April to July: Online exchanges between the mentor and their three nominees.

July 14–20, 2025: Forecast Forum at Radialsystem, Berlin.
All 18 nominees will be invited to Berlin to workshop and showcase their project proposals, with public presentations taking place July 18-20.

After the Forecast Forum, each mentor will choose one nominee to continue to the next phase of the mentorship process.

Phase 2
August 2025 to January 2026: One-on-one mentorship.
During these months, the mentor and mentee will come together for a work-stay consisting of several days of creative exchanges and in-person mentoring. There will also be a public showcase or workshop. For Forecast 10, all work-stays will be hosted by institutions in Berlin.

Outside of the work-stay, the mentorship will take place online.

March 16–21, 2026: Forecast Festival at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Set-ups and rehearsals from March 16, with final public showcases from March 20–21.

• Travel and accommodation are covered by Forecast for the Forum, work-stay and Festival. (If you apply as a duo or collective, please note that Forecast can only cover the cost of one representative).
• Each project receives a production budget, including an artist fee for participation in the Forum as listed in the Terms and Conditions. Each project selected for the Festival will receive a further production budget and artist fee for participation.
  For more information see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

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