Through our funding programmes, partnerships and cultural policy work, we aim to stimulate the development of art and cultural life and ensure flexible frameworks for new transnational collaborations.
Maria Mediaas Jørstad, Director of the Nordic Culture Fund, believes that art and culture have a vital role to play in a world that is becoming increasingly divided and chaotic. Art and culture provide nuance and gets us out of our echo chambers. Read the portrait here.
Globus FORWARD supports artistic and cultural collaborations that operate in wide transnational settings and that are ready for further development. The aim is to strengthen the long-term capacities of new collaborative formats.
Globus FORWARD is a new direction within the Nordic Culture Fund’s thematic initiative Globus and replaces the previous Globus Call–programme. The support is targeted at existing collaborations that demonstrate potential and readiness for further development. It is the grantees themselves who decide on the aims and content of the specific development activities. The programme will be open for applications during 14 June – 15 September 2024.
Maria Mediaas Jørstad, Director of the Nordic Culture Fund, believes that art and culture have a vital role to play in a world that is becoming increasingly divided and chaotic. Art and culture provide nuance and gets us out of our echo chambers. Read the portrait here.
You can now watch the full recording of our webinar from the 20th of March 2024, introducing the new digital platform designed to share knowledge and insights from the the Fund’s Globus Programme.
Globus Opstart will open for applications on February 19th with renewed criteria and a new name, Globus Opstart+. With the update, the Fund will allow for a more flexible and long-term approach within the initial phases of new Nordic/Global collaborative projects.
A/nordi/c – think tank for art and policies was set with basic funding from the Nordic Culture Fund. The think tank worked in 2021-2023 to bring artistic practice and political reality closer together. A summary of the think tank’s knowledge and activities can be found at anordic.org.
A Nordic exchange and research programme to strengthen the development of choreographic art across the Nordic and Baltic countries.
A 3 day arts and culture workshop, with a goal of opening the cultural field to practical solutions and tools for structural change, all in the work for a cultural field based on diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, justice and opportunity.
The workshop is hosted by Diversify, and is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.
(Diversify is also the host of the Diversify Nordics Summit later this year)
The newsletter brings you for example news about the Fund's funding programmes and other initiatives.
The Nordic Culture Fund awards grants worth approximately DKK 29 million every year.
The Fund receives 1,400 applications every year.
Every year approximately 180 receive Project Funding, 105 receive Opstart and about 57 receive Puls funding.