Globus Opstart is for small beginnings with big ambitions

What is Globus Opstart?

Globus Opstart supports the establishment and research phases in mutual global collaborations and projects involving artists and cultural practitioners from the Nordic region and other parts of the world.

The programme focuses in particular on projects that operate with an exploratory approach in building collaborations and seeking new knowledge in order to develop and strengthen their practice in a global framework.

We encourage you therefore to think new in terms of ideas, themes and collaboration. Our aim is to help with creating networks that are characterised by deep relations and duration. Therefore, we encourage you to explore and establish clear structures and project organizations, which can lead to the formation of global networks.

You can apply as an individual, group, institution, association, company, public or private organisation.

The projects must be clearly linked to artistic and/or cultural environments. The Nordic Culture Fund does not fund projects that focus primarily on, for example, sporting events, business development, technological development and innovation, the social area, journalism or social science.

Assessment criteria

Your project must have a Nordic anchoring but must not be able to be developed in the Nordic region alone. Support from the fund is dependent on binding participation and contributions from artists and cultural practitioners who are working outside the Nordic Region. We also look at how the project’s cooperation is reflected in the budget.

We look also at how the project works with an exploratory approach in building collaborations, seeking out new knowledge and qualifications and thereby developing their practice in a global framework.

We look at how the project thinks new in terms of idea, theme and in relation to the establishment of networks and collaboration and artistic development.

Projects that are assessed to be able to be developed within the Fund’s Project Funding and Opstart programmes cannot, in principle, obtain support from Globus Opstart.

Conditions

Project period

• You can only apply for funding for activities that take place after you have received a decision from the Nordic Culture Fund. The processing time for applications is 20 workdays. The project can therefore start 20 workdays after the application date.
• The project should be completed within one year of the project’s start date. Please contact the secretariat if a granted project cannot be finalized within the planned time frame.

Budget

• You can apply for max. DKK 50,000. Fees may comprise 80% (though no more than DKK 30,000) of the applied Globus Opstart grant.
• There is no requirement for co-financing, but there must be a clear purpose for the project’s use of support. The budget in the application must be detailed and, for example, specify travel, the travellers, visa and what materials are needed.
• The cooperation between the participating actors must be reflected in the project budget.

Applications

• The projects must be clearly linked to artistic and/or cultural environments. The Nordic Culture Fund does not fund projects that focus primarily on, for example, sporting events, business development, technological development and innovation, the social area, journalism or social science.
• If your Globus Opstart application is rejected, you may develop the project and re-apply one more time.
• The Fund accepts only electronic applications, which may be submitted via the Fund’s applications portal. 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.