Deadline: 4 April 2018
The Nordic Culture Point is seeking applications for its Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for culture to strengthen 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 applicants, who may be individuals or small groups, 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.
Benefits
- Mobility Funding can be applied for travel and/or stays of up to 10 days.
- The size 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only professional artists and cultural workers (such as curators, producers, fiction translators, cultural editors or researchers) within all fields of culture and art can apply for funding.
- “Professional” means that you have documented experience of working within the field of art and culture and/or have studied art or culture.
- Mobility funding can only be granted for individuals or groups of up to 6 persons per application.
- Therefore, the user account which applicants create application system should not be registered as an organisation to apply for mobility funding.
- In order to apply for mobility funding, the applicant(s) should reside in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Åland Islands) or Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania) but it is not necessary for applicants to have Nordic or Baltic nationality.
- Individual and group travel
- In the individual applications, the traveller should always fill in and submit the application. Therefore, applicants cannot apply for funding for another person, except in group applications where one of the travellers is specified as the leader and contact person of the group.
- Furthermore, everyone in the group should fulfil the requirement of working as a professional artist or cultural worker and should also reside in the Nordic region or Baltic states. If anyone in the group does not fulfil the requirements, the entire application will be rejected.
- Everyone in the group must travel at the same time from the same location and to the same destination. If group members with the same destination travel from different countries, they should instead submit individual applications. These applications will be assessed together.
- A group application should only be submitted when it is clearly evident that the persons who are applying together are artistically (or in another manner) connected. This means that everyone who is a part of the group has a professional relationship with each other and can justify their role and purpose of the stay. For example, a quartet or dance company may be an artistically connected group, but if a number of individual cultural workers want to apply for funding, for example, to visit a festival, they should instead apply separately.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
For more information, please visit Mobility Funding.