Deadline: 2-Oct-22
The Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK) is now accepting proposals for Danube Small Project Fund for Culture, a new funding opportunity for small scale cultural creative initiatives based on collaboration among various partners – creatives and cultural operators – from the Danube countries.
In order to meet the needs of the cultural sector in the Danube region, to contribute to the implementation of the EUSDR and to give a proper answer to the challenges of the Covid-pandemic, the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK) initiated a pilot action for the Danube Small Project Fund which is to elaborate the final structure and to test the long-term function of this innovative funding platform.
Funding Information
- A one-off grant or contribution of up to 5,000 € is available for the realisation of your initiative/project proposal.
Eligible Projects
- This call supports creative and innovative cultural and artistic actions (project proposals) based on regional collaboration.
- Creativity, innovation and collaboration are the 3 key focuses of this grant. Proposals that are rather “business as usual” or already running projects/programmes are not a priority. They are especially looking for project proposals that initiate suppletory or experimental cultural actions. Innovation can be related to the theme of the project, the genre or the type of collaboration/co-creation represented by the action. The quality of collaboration will be an important part of the evaluation.
- They do not have any preference for a specific artistic field or discipline within cultural work or the creative industries. They understand ‘culture’ as a very wide field covering work far beyond the classical arts and culture domain.
- This first DSPF call has no further thematic requirements, restrictions or specifications.
- Nevertheless, if you are looking for thematic orientation or are simply curious about what issues and topics are relevant for the Danube region or are addressed by the EU Danube Strategy, you can find information on the following websites. It is important to note, however, that these contents are for information or inspiration only and do not represent any criteria or expectations from the DSPF:
Eligibility Criteria
- They encourage independent NGOs, small associations, groups of artists or individuals (artists, cultural operators, creatives) to apply as a lead partner. If you apply as an organisation, you must be able to present an official registration by your local authorities, if you apply as an individual, you need to identify yourself with a valid ID document.
- They give a clear preference to initiatives from the independent cultural-creative scene of the Danube region (instead of big national institutions or festival). Nevertheless, institutions are not excluded from the call as they may apply with new small and cooperative initiatives for the benefit of the independent creative-artistic scene (e.g. a special off-programme of an existing festival).
- They invite you to apply in partnership with at least two partners from two more different countries of the Danube region. Collaboration or co-creation is a key condition for funding.
- They define the Danube area in the sense of the European Union’s Strategy for the Danube Region. In this sense, lead partner and all further partners should be registered or be residents of one of the following countries or states: Austria, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and parts of Ukraine (Zakarpatska, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Odessa).
- Although they do not encourage it, you are allowed to submit more than one application or alternatively be involved with multiple proposals as a partner provided that they are for entirely different projects.
For more information, visit https://danubeculture.eu/2nd_call_application