Deadline: 31-Jan-22
The Nordic Culture Point is offering grants under Mobility Funding Programme for Culture strengthens artistic and cultural cooperation in the Nordic region and Baltic states.
The programme focuses on increasing the exchange of knowledge, contacts, presence and interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.
The Mobility funding provides individual applicants access to contacts, skills and knowledge from different parts of the region. Funding may also be used to present artistic and cultural productions and to increase interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.
Which activities are funded?
The purpose for the journey may be, for example:
- cooperation with colleagues in one of the Nordic or Baltic countries
- a special performance
- exhibitions
- participation in conferences, meetings and workshops
- research
Eligibility Criteria
- Only artists and other professionals in the arts and culture field (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) within all fields of culture and art can apply for funding.
- “Professional” means that the applicant has documented experience of working within the field of art and culture and/or have completed an education in art or culture.
- Mobility funding can only be granted for individuals. You cannot apply funding on behalf of another person. If you are applying as part of a small group traveling together for the same project, all members of the group must submit individual applications. You state the names of the other group members in the application form.
- Therefore, the user account which you create in our application system can only be registered as an individual applicant to apply for Mobility funding.
- In order to apply for mobility funding, the applicant must reside in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Åland Islands) or Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania). However, it is not necessary for the applicant to have Nordic or Baltic nationality.
- You will have to attach an invitation or letter of intent, to the application. It should state who is invited, and by whom. Moreover, an invitation letter can also state what the applicant is being offered by the inviting organization/institution/group/etc.
- Please note that the language of the programme is English. Both the application and the invitation, or the letter of intent, must be submitted in English.
For more information, visit https://www.nordiskkulturkontakt.org/en/grants/about-the-grant-programmes/mobility-funding/