Globus Call

Globus Call: across cultural, geographical and disciplinary boundaries

The ability of art and culture to look beyond fixed categories, and to build and sustain links across the boundaries of different contexts, is now more relevant – and challenged – than ever before. In a time of growing inequality, geopolitical conflict, community disruption and an escalating climate crisis, a new and more nuanced approach is required to how we support the work of cultural actors. That’s why we created Globus Call. The goal is unashamedly ambitious: to boost the transformative potential of the arts and culture in our society.

The next application round opens in May 2023. Please note that there can be slight changes to the criteria prior to this.

Experiments are met with confidence and a willingness to take risks

Through Globus Call, we support artistic and cultural collaborations which in their practice aim to break down traditional barriers and widen cultural, social, historical, geographical or professional boundaries. The programme encourages the building of cross-cutting collaborations and networks that seek new perspectives and develop dialogue across contexts.

The programme is open to projects that work with experimental approaches and methods, and which strive to explore interactions between the local and the global. The intention is to meet artists in the contexts and positions in which they find themselves, and to support them with confidence and a willingness to take risks.

The programme may be applied for through annual application rounds. Keep an eye on this page for the next application deadline. Up to DKK 700,000 may be applied for per project.

The projects must be rooted in artistic and/or cultural milieux, but may draw upon other professional fields and traditions.

The Nordic in Globus

Through Globus, the Fund wishes to develop a wider and more inclusive understanding of the idea of working Nordicly. Here, the Nordic is defined not as a collaboration between nation states, but as an idea or context that is not bound by national borders, and which can be explored through artistic and cultural encounters in and around the world.

The projects must have a clear link to and/or relationship with the Nordic region in terms of partners, themes or activities, but must not solely be capable of being developed within the Nordic countries themselves. Projects that operate exclusively in the Nordic region are not therefore eligible for funding under the programme. Unlike the Fund’s other programmes, Project Funding and Opstart, there is no requirement for co-operation between the Nordic countries.

Please note that projects which meet the assessment criteria of the Fund’s other programmes are not generally eligible for Globus funding. This applies, for example, to projects that focus primarily on activities or the development of co-operation within the Nordic region.

Nordic relevance through networking and exchanges

As part of Globus, we facilitate a network between those projects that have received funding through the programme. This includes the development of structures and online forums for further knowledge exchange between the partners involved, and between individual projects and the Foundation.

Via this network, we explore a new form of Nordic relevance in collaboration with the specific projects, rather than focusing exclusively on specific requirements for broad Nordic collaboration in the individual initiatives.

Projects that receive funding are expected to participate in network meetings and knowledge-sharing sessions during the funding period.

Funding principles

Projects will be assessed upon the following principles, which reflect the overall aims of the Globus programme:

Exploring global practice

Understood as the ambition of the project, and means to:

• develop collaborations that transcend bounded categories between countries and disciplines
• address themes/approaches which require long-term development
• orientate towards, or draw from specific local practices and contexts while acknowledging their entanglements with their wider surroundings on a local, regional, global or planetary scale.

Curiosity towards the unknown

Seen as the ways in which the project:

• demonstrate a tangible idea and vision for the overall project
• possess an ambition to observe from alternative positions and points of view
• operate with exploratory/research based approaches in their artistic development, to acquire knowledge, build collaborations and nuance the work to changing environments.

Mutual commitment & engagement

The aims and means of the applicant to:

• form strong collaborations and networks based on mutual commitment and engagement among partners
• develop or facilitate clear and sustainable structures and project organizations which enable and depend on the specific qualifications of the involved partners.

Priority will be given to projects which can demonstrate a concrete aim for long-term effects that go beyond the grant period.

Conditions

Budget

• Grants up to DKK 700.000 (USD 98.000) can be applied for and awarded through the programme. The amount should be matched with a relevant co-financing or other resources to the extent possible. There must be a clear purpose for the project’s use of the funding.
• It is mandatory to attach a budget showing the overall costs and expected income of the project.

Project period

• The maximum grant period is two calendar years following the year in which the grant was provided. The grant period is the period during which the activities funded by Nordic Culture Fund are planned to take place. The project’s aims may extend over a longer time frame.

Appliations

• Applications must be submitted through the Fund’s digital platform My Page during the application period. All applications must be submitted in English. Applications submitted by post or e-mail will not be considered.

Publicity

• The Fund’s grants are published on our website and in our annual report. According to the Nordic Culture Fund’s rules on public access to information, a list of applications is in the public domain, but the applications are not.

Succesful applicants

• The Fund’s general rules on crediting, payment, final reporting and accounting apply to the Globus grant. Read more here.