Deadline: 29-Aug-2025
The Finnish Cultural Foundation is pleased to announce its Mobility Grants to cover costs from international activities or residency periods outside Finland.
The purpose of the grant: to enhance the skills, understanding, abilities, networks, and career opportunities of artists and art critics; to support international cooperation projects, residencies, exhibition projects, or festival participation; to cover costs related to international activities outside Finland.
Grants may be sought for expenses ranging from EUR 3,000 to EUR 10,000. Expenses covered by the grant are: travel, accommodation, residency fees, shipping fees, insurance fees. The Cultural Foundation is favourably disposed towards higher travel costs due to the journey taking place in a way that pollutes the climate and the environment as little as possible. In addition to direct travel costs, the grant may also be used to offset emissions that your form of travel produces.
Eligibility: Individual artists, critics, working groups, as well as registered organisations such as associations from any field of art are eligible to apply for a mobility grant.
In the August application round, the grant can be applied for travel that takes place at the earliest at the beginning of November following the application. The grant can be applied for if the stay in the target country lasts continuously for a minimum of two weeks. The same journey can extend to multiple countries, but even in such a case, a minimum of two weeks’ stay in at least one of the countries is required. The application can combine the costs of several trips occurring within one year if they are directed to the same target country and if at least one of the trips lasts for two weeks. Separate periods of mobility directed to multiple different target countries cannot be combined in the same application.
The mobility grant cannot be applied for travel occurring from a foreign location to Finland. The country of departure does not need to be Finland, however. The grant cannot be applied for general living expenses or daily allowances while traveling or in Finland. A working grant may not be included in a mobility grant application, as the funding for the work must come from other sources. A positive mobility grant decision does not prevent an applicant from receiving a working grant in the Cultural Foundation’s October and January application rounds. Mobility grants cannot be used for trips included in undergraduate studies or for costs related to undergraduate studies taken abroad. The application rounds are open from 10 to 29 August 2025 (until 4 pm Finnish time).
For more information, visit Finnish Cultural Foundation.
