Deadline: 01-Oct-2024
The Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK) is accepting applications for the Nordic LGBTI Fund to stimulate Nordic co-operation in the LGBTI area within the framework of the Nordic Co-operation Programme on Gender Equality, including its supplement Equal rights, treatment, and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic region.
Purpose
- All applications to the Fund must state whether they have included the following perspectives:
- Sustainable development
- Gender equality
- Children and youth perspectives
Funding Information
- The amount applied for should be between DKK 50,000 and DKK 500,000.
Requirements on activities and beneficiaries
- The following activities may be funded:
- Staging of Nordic gatherings/meetings
- Investigations/inquiries
- Network-building
- Activity projects
- The participation of volunteer organisations in Nordic or international conferences/courses/meetings/gatherings
- The Nordic LGBTI Fund addresses a broad target group and calls for proposals are open to a variety of activities and organisations including:
- Voluntary, not-for-profit or stakeholder organisation
- Networks
- Government agencies and other public sector activities
- Researchers and research groups
- Other non-commercial actors
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility Criteria
- The Nordic LGBTI Fund addresses a broad target group and calls for proposals are open to a variety of organisations including:
- Volunteer organisations (citizen organisations/not-for-profit organisations)
- Networks
- Government agencies and other public sector activities (such as municipalities, university departments, divisions, etc.)
- Other non-commercial actors
- small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Each project must involve at least three Nordic countries, of which the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland may constitute one country.
- A project involving cooperation organisations in neighbouring regions, i.e. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, requires that at least two Nordic countries also participate.
- The lead applicant should come from a Nordic country. Otherwise, the Nordic Council of Ministers’ current policy on co-operation with countries outside the Nordic Region always applies.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Funding will not be granted for:
- Activities already financed wholly or partly by the Nordic Council of Ministers for Gender Equality and LGBTI or the other sectors of the Nordic Council of Ministers
- Activities that submit a budget in a currency other than DKK
- Applications submitted after the deadline
- Activities that submit an incomplete application (all mandatory fields not filled in or applications without the requisite attached documentation).
- Political party organisations.
For more information, visit NIKK.