The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) announces the fourth NEU/NOW Festival, presenting the most exciting and creative NEU artistic talent NOW emerging across Europe and beyond. The NEU/NOW Festival promotes graduating/just graduated artists from higher arts education institutions. ELIA is looking for projects in five disciplines: Visual Arts, Design, Film, Sound/Music, and Theatre/Dance. Applications must be nominated by a professor/representative of the institution. The deadline for sending in nominations is 31 January 2012. The NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative international platform for talented graduating artists (or those who have recently graduated) – coming out of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wider international audience within a professional arts context. The Festival features the most excellent new artists now entering the professional arts arenas and is an international showcase for emerging creative talent. From the nominated projects, a maximum of 150 projects across all the categories will be presented online at www.neunow.com, which is widely accessible to arts professionals and public alike. A selection of projects will be presented in the NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2012 that will take place 11 - 15 July in Porto, Portugal. All details can be found at: www.neunow.com