Deadline: 03-Aug-2025
The Globus FORWARD supports artistic and cultural collaborations that operate in wide transnational settings and that are ready for further development.
The aim is to strengthen the long-term capacities of new collaborative formats. Through the programme they wish to further explore a new approach to funding that can be embedded into the Nordic Culture Fund’s practice beyond the Globus initiative. The work is therefore supported by continued knowledge development that can also provide inspiration for other funders and the wider field of arts & culture.
Focus Areas
- The grantees set-up and manage their own development plans within core areas, e.g.:
- Clarify their own role, purpose and strategic priorities
- Adapt and further develop the structure and format of the collaboration
- Develop communicational capacities and advocacy
- Embed monitoring and learning processes
- Advance language diversity, equity and fair practices in the collaboration
- Develop partnerships and coalitions
- Improve sustainability efforts and planning
- Further develop financial management and fundraising strategy
- Build the capacities of staff and leadership
- Develop practices to enhance physical and digital security, e.g. working in unstable locations or contexts
- Build legal competences
Funding Information
- The maximum grant amount that can be granted size is DKK 500,000 and the maximum grant period is 2 years.
Who is it relevant for?
- Globus FORWARD aims at strengthening the long-term capacities of existing collaborations that have already progressed from their initial phases and express an articulated need and motivation/readiness to develop their way of working in a long-term perspective.
- As with the previous phases of Globus, the focus is on collaborations that work with experimental approaches and methods, and which relate to their wider surroundings by drawing upon specific local practices and contexts.
- Applicants can be a network, artistic collective, platform or other collaborative constellation whose core operations take place in wider transnational settings, connecting practitioners from the Nordics and other parts of the world.
Ineligible Activities
- The programme does not support:
- Initiatives that serve a one-time or short-term purpose, such as individual productions, touring activities, one-time exhibitions or one-way cultural export initiatives.
- Collaborations that do not have a clear link to the Nordic region
- Organisations that already have a well-established structure and operations and do not present a clear need for substantial change and further development
- The work of individual practitioners if this is not clearly connected to the development of a wider collaborative setting
- Collaborations that are not anchored in artistic and/or cultural milieux.
- Establishment of new collaborations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Pre-application process for new applicants:
- The programme is open to previous Globus grantees (Globus Call and Globus Opstart/Globus Opstart+) as well as new applicants.
- Please note: if you are a new applicant/have not received Globus-funding before, they recommend that you submit a pre-application to check your eligibility before preparing a full application.
Assessment Criteria
- The relevance of the collaboration to the overall aims of Globus (geographical scope, mutual commitment and local anchoring of activities) and whether the collaboration has progressed sufficiently from its initial phases. The applicant does not have to be a formally registered organisation, but should have an emerging organizational setting or structure for its activities.
- The explorative nature of the collaboration, both within in the artistic development, and as a way to further develop operations and nuance the work to changing environments.
- Whether the collaboration builds on a shared ambition that goes beyond a one-time purpose and activities.
- Whether the applicant demonstrates relevant/sufficient capacity to implement the plan and manage the overall process.
- The degree to which the collaboration relates beyond the immediate partners and participants in the collaboration.
Selection Criteria
- Actors who are selected for the programme receive a grant supporting the further development of the collaboration/organisations.
- The selected grantees will be invited to a brief online exchange with the Fund, with the possibility to discuss practical matters and agree on possible future contact points with the Fund.
- If relevant, the Fund can make further suggestions for external experts to engage in the development activities and offer practical guidance depending on the specific needs of each grantee. The Fund will not actively participate in the development activities.
For more information, visit Nordic Culture Fund.