CUNE Comics-in-Residence (CiR) is an exchange programme for European comic artists. In 2013–2014, CUNE CiR will arrange 16 residencies in Helsinki, Malmö, Riga and Tallinn and hold 6 international seminars on new cross-cultural co-operation measures at major European comics festivals. In addition to solo exhibitions, CUNE CiR artists will exhibit jointly at Helsinki Comics Festival 2013 and Erlangen Comics Salon 2014. CUNE CiR is coordinated by the Finnish Comics Society and co-organised with Latvian comics journal kuš!, the Swedish Comics Association and the Estonian Comics Society.The aim of CUNE CiR is to produce new, high-quality comics art and to create future working opportunities for European comics artists. The CUNE CiR residencies will be an opportunity to draw inspiration from new environments and to find alternative ways to create comics through cultural exchange. The programme will also arrange networking events for the artists with local publishers. The adjoined seminars will focus on developing new international projects between European comics organisations and establishing comics residencies in new locations.The four organisers are part of CUNE (Comics Union of Northern Europe), a network of comics organisations, festivals and individual professionals who aim to create actions that benefit the European comics life all-inclusively. The CUNE CiR programme is the network's first venture to kickstart sustained cross-cultural collaboration within the industry and establish new working conventions that can be expanded to include the whole field of European comics in the future.