
The Fund awards grants for around 340 projects and receives around 1300 applications every year. Here you can get inspired by selected projects we have supported in recent years.

Dance and culture festival in the Faroe Islands in July 2022 with participants from the Nordic countries.

The project researches the relativity of the cultural, social and geopolitical processes which formed the certain territory of the European North through the geophysical and chemical processes.

An exhibition with a focus on sustainability, co-created by young curators from Iceland, Denmark, Finland and Estonia.

The project is a combined exhibition and workshop investigating the Arctic lifestyle and crafts.

The project will develop a cultural dissemination center about the Hadza people.

A project combining visual art and sound art to investigate the relationship between cod fish and people in the Nordic region, focusing on symbiosis and life-cycles.

Law Shifters engages young citizens in law and democracy by giving them the chance to act as both judges and lawmakers. What would your verdict be to real court cases, and how would you rewrite the laws in your country so that they would be more just?

A group exhibition that will reclaim historical artistic practices through a wide range of artistic approaches such as weaving, painting and sewing, while also communicating hidden stories of racism, colonialism, religious persecution and queerness.

Through Finnish-Nepali-Mauritius partnership, the project contributes to local and global understandings of traditional music practices, their contemporary artistic possibilities, and their contribution to non-formal and formal music education practices locally and globally from the perspective of cultural and social sustainability.

The project “Urgent Situation” promotes horizontal exchange of knowledge, ideas and methods between the creative field and the sustainable tourism industry. The aim is to investigate and convey how artists, architects and other creative actors can play a central role in the development of the tourism sector in a world with a growing focus on the environment, sustainability and local communities.

A performance-led research project setting out to investigate new digital business models and markets for contemporary performance.

With Mexico as its case, this project explores innovative artistic methods to develop technological tools in favour of women exposed to social constraints and systemic violence.

The project sets a new vision of how disability works through technology to create a new normative.

‘Now Soon Over’ aims to unite young and newly established cultural institutions in a network to foster exchange of knowledge and experience.

A long-term networking and exchange programme between artists and cultural operators from the Nordic Region and the African continent, wishing to influence cultural representation on world art scenes.

A project aiming to establish a transcontinental network for knowledge sharing between artists and cultural agents from the USVI, Ghana, Greenland and the Nordic region, instigating new North-South and South-South knowledge infrastructures

A collaborative project sparking interactions with independent shops at risk of gentrification by revitalizing the shops’ visual identities and enabling them to thrive.

What kind of role can art and its methods play in just sustainability transformations? ‘Seeds for Solidarity’ sows seeds for global climate justice through supporting creative collaborations around sustainability that challenge Westernized ways of knowing and doing.

Voice is fundamental to our sense of identity and participation in the world. The SENSORIUM project brings together arts, technology, and community-driven co-creation to generate new possibilities for developing creative and authentic expressions of voice, in all its forms – physical, social, cultural, and democratic.

Simiyya is a platform for research and cultural production, focusing on the way cultural-geographical contexts impact how technology shapes politics and aesthetics, as well as how to form a future based on new economic and psychic models.
