Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Nordic Information on Gender is accepting applications for the Nordic LGBTI Fund with an aims 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.
The Nordic LGBTI Fund is managed and administered by MR-JÄM’s co-operation body Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK).
Funding Information
The amount applied for should be between DKK 50,000 and DKK 500,000.
Nordic benefit
Nordic benefit means the extent to which the project:
- Generates significant positive effects through Nordic cooperation, compared to the project having been implemented at the national/bilateral or other transnational level
- Manifests and develops Nordic cohesion, both within and outside the region
- Contributes to infrastructure that strengthens Nordic co-operation for equal rights, treatment and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic countries
- Responds in a constructive way to the challenges of Nordic co-operation such as national barriers and differences.
Here, the assessment will be based on how well the application:
- Justifies why the project should be implemented as Nordic co-operation
- Describes the added value and the challenges that the co-operating parties perceive in working together across country borders.
Requirements
The following activities may be funded:
- Staging of Nordic gatherings/meetings
- Knowledge production
- Network-building
- Business development
- 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).
Each project must involve at least the three Nordic countries, where the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Aaland Islands may constitute one of these only. In addition, funding may be granted to activities involving co-operation in the neighbouring regions, i.e. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and north-west Russia, where at least two Nordic countries are participating. The principal applicant should come from a Nordic country or the Faroe Islands, Greenland or the Aaland Islands.
Limitations
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
- Private individuals
- Activities whose purpose is to generate a profit or equivalent for the funding beneficiary.
For more information, visit https://nikk.no/en/apply-for-funding/nordic-lgbti-fund/application-form-nordic-lgbti-fund-2022/