Deadline: 27-Nov-25
The King Baudouin Foundation is excited to invite applications for its Jacqueline Nonkels Prize to recognize people or bodies who successfully contribute in raising awareness and publicizing Belgium’s surrealist heritage, as well as its preservation, restoration and conservation.
The prize may be awarded for:
- scientifically highlighting, in Belgium or abroad, Belgium’s surrealist heritage through research, publication, work or any other form of dissemination;
- any initiative by a Belgian institution designed to increase awareness and physical accessibility of the Belgian surrealism heritage (e.g. through acquisition, restoration, presentation, new displays or pedagogic projects).
Prize Information
- The Jacqueline Nonkels Fund will award an annual prize of €5.000. The price can be increased with additional support depending on the project and its needs. The total amount of support will not exceed €10.000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call is addressed to anyone who is studying surrealism in Belgium, or who deals with the conservation of objects, works or documents relating to Belgian surrealism. The prize is a way of encouraging such effort.
- In order to be considered for the Prize, candidates’ entries must respond to the following criteria of admissibility:
- Every part of the application form must have been completed.
- The project initiator should be the representative of a group, a not for profit organization, an institution, a group of volunteers or a local public institution (i.e. not a commercial organization).
- The project:
- must be relevant to the Fund’s objectives;
- can be in its preparatory phase, just starting or already underway.
Selection Criteria
- In selecting the prize-winner, the jury will be particularly sensitive to the following points:
- In the case of a research project or publication:
- the innovative nature of the subject;
- the need for support in order to further the project;
- the added-value of the project for the community (e.g. circulation, target group);
- the thought given to the project’s implementation (measured e.g. the accuracy and reliability of the financial plan, how realistic the timing is, evaluation and monitoring of the project);
- In the case of awareness building:
- the conditions of conservation and security of the site;
- the symbolic nature of the site for surrealism;
- the need for support to further the project;
- the added-value of the project for the community (measured e.g. by the number of visitors, the number of beneficiaries from the project);
- the quality of the project implementation (measured e.g. by the dynamism of the project initiator, the accuracy and reliability of the financial plan, how realistic the timing is, the evaluation and monitoring of the project.
- In the case of a research project or publication:
Application Requirements
- The following annexes will be requested (if available):
- photos that illustrate the project;
- Curriculum Vitae, expectations and ambitions;
- in case of a publication, a summary, the table of content and information on the agreement with the publisher;
- in case of an event or exhibition: the scenario and the plans.
For more information, visit King Baudouin Foundation.