Deadline: 31-Mar-21
The Nordic Culture Point is seeking applications for its Mobility Funding Programme that 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. Mobility funding is intended for the travel and/or stay of professional artists or cultural workers within Nordic and/or Baltic countries.
Finances
- Mobility funding can be applied for travel and/or stays for up to 14 days. The amount of the funding is based on a fixed travel cost and/or fixed compensation per day, which is calculated based on the duration and destination of the stay.
- The stay may exceed 14 days, but the mobility funding will not cover more than 14 days.
- Applicant cannot apply for additional funding for production costs or similar. They can only submit one application per application round.
Programme Activities
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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
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Applicants cannot apply for funding for:
- travel solely within the same country/area
- travel to or from countries outside the Nordic region/Baltic states.
- travel as part of the applicant’s degree programme
- corporate or business travel
- travel for employees of public administration – for example, state authorities, municipalities, regions or equivalent.
- activities that have already been completed. At the earliest, activities that are supported by the programme may begin 8 weeks after the application deadline.
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 has completed an education in art or culture.
- Mobility funding can only be granted for individuals. Applicants cannot apply funding on behalf of another person. If they are applying as part of a small group traveling together for the same project, all members of the group must submit individual applications. Applicants state the names of the other group members in the application form.
- Therefore, the user account which applicants create in their 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.
- Applicants 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.
- Multiple destinations: Applications may contain multiple destinations in case of a continuous travel, i.e., traveling to several countries during one journey connected to the same project to allow more sustainable ways of traveling.
- Disabled applicants: Additional mobility support can be provided to artists and cultural professionals who need to be accompanied by an assistant.
For more information, visit Mobility Funding.
For more information, visit https://www.nordiskkulturkontakt.org/en/grants/about-the-grant-programmes/mobility-funding/