Nordic Culture Fund launches ENTER

A new programme for collective experimentation

ENTER has been developed as part of the Fund’s 2026–2030 strategy, Culture drives the future of the Nordics. The strategy highlights art and culture as important driving forces that create new connections, challenge established ways of thinking and contribute to shaping the Nordic region of the future. This requires space for experimentation, where ideas can be tested and take shape through encounters with others.

ENTER therefore offers the opportunity to explore an idea, method or way of working before its outcome or next step is entirely clear. The programme is aimed at initiatives that bring different experiences, geographies and practices into play, and that have the courage to challenge established ways of working.

At the same time, we seek to promote a more open and exploratory approach to the Nordic. Initiatives must still have a Nordic anchoring, but what matters is not the number or scale of Nordic partners. What matters is how different experiences, places and perspectives are brought together through collaboration, and what the initiative can open up in a Nordic context.