Culture shapes the future of the Nordics
Through our funding programmes, partnerships and cultural policy work, The Nordic Culture Fund stimulates the development of art and cultural life and ensure flexible frameworks for new transnational collaborations.
Nordic Culture Fund is revising its programmes – changes to application deadlines in the autumn
As part of implementing the Fund’s 2026–2030 strategy, we are currently updating the Fund’s overall grant-making approach and programme portfolio. As a result, the Opstart and Project Funding programmes will be revised, and there will be changes to the application deadlines this autumn while we finalise the new programme framework.
Funding Culture for a Changing World
Across two volumes, Brussels-based researcher Elena Polivtseva investigates, analyses, and summarises Globus, the global funding initiative of the Nordic Culture Fund during 2020-2025. Both publications offer recommendations and forward-looking perspectives on how to develop more relevant, responsive and future-oriented funding models for cross-border cultural collaboration. The insights will also inform the Nordic Culture Fund’s future funding practices, partnerships and strategic role.
Pedagogies of the Rural
Pedagogies of the Rural facilitates experimental knowledge sharing across localities and communities in a global network with focus on peripheral art practices, rural community building, land care and alternative pedagogies.
Sustaining the Otherwise
Sustaining the Otherwise is a research and artistic project about restitution, reparation and transformation, taking place in multiple locations in Europe and Africa. The project offers a space for artists, activists, scholars and writers to be in dialogue and to explore the topic of restitution in relation to both material and immaterial culture. Focusing on artistic practices, the program includes residencies, talks, conferences, publications, performances and exhibitions.
Our year in numbers
- 30
million
The Nordic Culture Fund grants approximately DKK 30 million every year.
- 1500
applications
The Fund receives around 1.500 valid applications every year.
- 248
projects
248 projects received funding in 2025.
