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Globus is created for a changing world
Globus is our major thematic initiative towards 2025. With Globus, we are turning our gaze outwards, bringing art and culture into global arenas, and giving artists and cultural practitioners new opportunities to seek support. The focus is on collaborations that simultaneously embrace both the local and the global.
With Globus, we are writing a new chapter in our history
Globus is our response to the growing need to incorporate art and culture into a broader global context. New spaces for development emerge when we meet artists and cultural practitioners on their home ground, wherever they are in the world, and support them with trust and a willingness to take risks.
The Globus initiative also aims to stimulate the international dimension of cultural policy. In an unstable global environment, issues like artistic mobility, freedom and cultural rights can no longer be resolved within national frameworks alone. Accordingly, through our partnerships with organisations such as UNESCO and the WHO, we are working to anchor cultural policy more firmly in the global policy dialogue and create further scope for the official Nordic co-operation.
Global versus International
We view the global as borderless – the world as a united whole.
The international is defined by the borders between nations, so its scale is narrower than the global, as is implied by the word itself: inter-national.
Global We will create global relevance for the Nordic co-operation.
International We will participate in international networks.
What does the world’s smallest theatre puppet look like? In the project ‘Tieteellinen näyttämöruno’, researchers and artists from Finland, the US, the Czech Republic and the UK have come together to create a theatre performance that will communicate the wondrous possibilities of microtechnology and nanotechnology through the medium of art and theatre.
The project is supported by Globus Opstart.
Photo: Anežka Medová
The project ‘Mapenzi (the crazy ones/vagabonds)‘ explores the term Mapenzi, which in Zimbabwe is used to describe vagrants and mentally ill people. The project is an innovative performance study that will borrow elements from two cultures, the Zimbabwean healing ritual and the traditional theatre performance aesthetic found in Denmark.
The project is supported by Globus Opstart.
Phpto: Tone Haldrup Lorenzen
The global partnership ‘Defining Resilient Urban Music Ecosystems in the Nordics and Abroad‘ researches music ecosystems in remote areas of the Nordics and Alaska.
Current funding programmes in Globus
Globus can be applied for via two funding programmes: Globus Opstart+ and Globus Call. Unlike the Fund’s other programmes, such as Project Funding and Opstart, there is no criterion in the Globus programmes for trans-Nordic co-operation. On the contrary, we support projects that cannot be carried out in the Nordic region alone.
Globus Opstart+
Globus Opstart+ supports the establishment and research phases of projects that aim to build global collaborations and networks anchored in the Nordic region.
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Globus FORWARD
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.
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Pilot projects and global partnerships
As part of Globus, we have launched concrete pilot projects and entered into partnerships with global actors and organisations. The projects build upon and aim at long-term partnerships and networking.
By building bridges between policy and the field of performing arts and culture, we contribute to a greater mutual understanding of the role of arts and culture in the development of societies, not only in the Nordic region but across the world.
Examples of current projects:
Arts & Health Collective – Partnership with the WHO
The project brings together academics, artists, cultural institutions, health professionals and policy-makers from several different countries to explore effective and sustainable strategies for the broad integration of arts and culture into the health sector.
Critical Voices – Partnership med UNESCO
The project seeks to strengthen the dialogue on the diversity of cultural expressions and the diverse role of cultural policy in the world.
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