Deadline: 19-Sep-2025
The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture – Mobility Funding provides support for professional artists and cultural practitioners to travel within the Nordic and Baltic region in order to foster cooperation and exchange.
The purpose of the trip can be a collaboration with colleagues in another Nordic and/or Baltic country, a guest play, an exhibition, participation in a conference, meeting or workshop, or research.
Funding is available for professional artists and cultural practitioners (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) in all forms of art and culture. “Professional” means that there is documented experience of work in the field of art and culture and/or training in art or culture. Mobility funding can only be granted to individuals. You cannot apply for funding for another person. If you apply as part of a group traveling together within the framework of the same project, all group members must submit individual applications. The user account that you create in the application system must be for an individual applicant in order to apply for mobility funding. To be able to apply for mobility funding, the applicant must be a resident of the Nordic Region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland) or the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania), although the applicant does not have to be a Nordic or Baltic citizen. An invitation or letter of intent must be attached to the application. It must state who is being invited and by whom. In addition, an invitation can also contain information about what the applicant is being offered by the inviting party.
Please note that the language of the programme is English. Both the application and invitation or letter of intent must therefore be submitted in English. An application can cover multiple destinations, i.e. the trip can consist of several stages within the Nordic and Baltic region if the entire trip is linked to one and the same project. The aim of this is for the programme to fund a more sustainable trip, where the greatest possible benefit is leveraged from one and the same trip. An application may not include several separate trips at different times. The traveller must always return to the same destination they left from. If you want to apply for a trip with several destinations, you must attach invitations from each destination, i.e. each stage/section of the trip must be justified. However, funding is not granted for tours. A supplement can be applied for by professional artists and cultural practitioners who, due to a disability, require personal assistance. The application should state what kind of assistance is needed under the journey.
Applicants can apply for funding to cover travel costs and/or accommodation. The size of the grant is determined by fixed travel costs and a daily allowance, and the amount is automatically calculated in the application system based on destination and duration of stay. The grant does not cover production costs. Each person travelling in a group must submit their own individual application.
Funding is not available for trips within one and the same country/area, trips to or from countries outside the Nordic/Baltic region, trips which are a part of the applicant’s formal studies, organisational or company travel, official travel for employees in public administration such as state authorities, municipalities, regions or the equivalent, or activities that have already been carried out. The earliest start date for activities funded by the programme is eight weeks after the application deadline.
The assessment is made on the basis of how well the above criteria are met and how well the application conveys the following: Opportunities for co-operation: The contribution of the trip to meetings and new contacts, and the promotion of new groups and initiatives. Quality and content: The assessment takes into account the quality of the applicant’s artistic career and previous work and the traveller’s motivation for the trip, as well as the purpose and how the applicant intends to achieve their goals. If the goal is to contribute to knowledge of new art forms and expressions, this can also be taken into account. The Nordic-Baltic dimension: In this context, the Nordic-Baltic dimension means that the trip promotes and increases contact, communication and activities between the Nordic and/or Baltic countries; strengthens the Nordic-Baltic presence in the cultural scene of the Nordic and Baltic region; strengthens understanding of the similarities and differences between the Nordic and Baltic countries; and improves awareness of Nordic and Baltic artists and their work.
The current application period opens on 18 August 2025 and closes on 19 September 2025. Applicants should ensure that their activities begin no earlier than eight weeks after the application deadline.
For more information, visit Nordic Culture Point.
