The Allianz Foundation Hubs aim to support path-breaking organizations from civil society, arts & culture, and climate action – across the entire European continent.

Regional and local expertise become productive by bundling forces, resources, and ideas. In order to meet the massive challenges of our times, new ways for exchange and cooperation are needed And a common vision.

The Hubs provide ideas for shared initiatives that emerge from the diversity of different approaches and ways of thinking. They overcome the boundaries between countries, disciplines, and movements. Researchers, activists, and artists from different parts of Europe could develop innovative concepts reacting to pressing issues around climate change. Residencies with stations in several countries could be offered where risk-takers are fighting for equal opportunities and against marginalization from their own national perspectives. These are only two examples of numerous possible forms of cooperation and mutual inspiration that can grow and deepen over the years.

They are striving for a network that is more than the sum of its parts. Through multi-year structural funding, each Hub is enabled to grow organically as an institution, develop its own public program, and to tend to its own regional network of partners and grassroots movements. At the same time, the Hubs cooperate across borders through staff exchanges, multilateral residencies, jointly funded projects, and co-curated programs.

The Hubs create a pan-European ecosystem of knowledge, innovation, and pioneering spirit. The program has a long-term and sustainable design. In this way, the Allianz Foundation reinforces its mission of contributing to the realization of a transnational European civil society that stands for openness, diversity, resilience, and ecological awareness.

"Decolonizing Food: Water, Land and Heritage" is the first edition of Residency On The Road, the unique Allianz Foundation Hubs residency program. It aims at bringing together artists, writers, curators, thinkers, activists, chefs, farmers, designers and many more to explore non-conventional food practices.

The program focuses on food-related practices and topics, questioning conventional food practices and exploring as well as exchanging new agricultural and culinary knowledge. It also focuses on the practical skills needed to cultivate food and collect or disseminate seeds, research relating to livestock and the economics of alimentation and the hegemony of industrialised practices in food production and distribution worldwide. There are no limitations for disciplines to involve. Topics can range from the preservation of biodiversity, urban agriculture, cultivation of local native and non-native varieties, or the mismanagement of water reserves to the possibility of creating distribution networks and fostering economic viability through alternative practices.

There are two specific phases:

• Generative Phase brings together nine artists, thinkers, researchers, activists, chefs, farmers, anthropologists, designers and other cultural practitioners to spend one week in each of the three participating cities. Each hub will select three residents from their wider region. The travel period will be between March and May 2023. During this period residents will meet the local scenes and convene for artist-led workshops, performances, artist talks and screenings, networking sessions, music events, meetings with activists, thematic tours, cooking sessions and more.
• Production Phase will follow in the autumn of 2023. All residents are invited, without obligation, to submit a proposal for a project involving at least two of the visited Hubs. The proposal will be evaluated, and if supported, stipends will be made available to realize the project with a dedicated production budget. Curatorial and production support will be given in all stages to accompany the project's development by the hub and local partners selected together. The funding will be agreed upon individually based on the specific proposal.