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The meeting is organised in connection to the Göteborg Bokmässa in collaboration with Göteborg Bokmässa, Västra Götaland Region, Göteborg City of Literature and the Nordic Culture Fund.
Today it is with great pleasure that we launch the new website of the Nordic Culture Fund. The motivation behind this project has been to present relevant knowledge of the work of the Fund, its current initiatives and the expression of our strategy.
The mentorship programme has been initiated by Nordiska Teaterrådet in co-operation with the Nordic Culture Fund. Nordic Ambitions – Mentorship programme for leaders in Nordic theatre aims to develop the leadership skills of its participants and promotes Nordic networks between theatres.
A speech delivered by Anni Syrjäläinen, senior advisor at the Nordic Culture Fund, at ‘Look Up – Look North’ Nordic Foundations Conference, Copenhagen, November 2022.
14 projects have been supported with a total amount of 4.8 million. DKK in the first major application round of the Fund’s Globus programme. By the deadline of 3.10.2022, the Fund had received a total of 227 applications. The aim of the programme is to support artistic and cultural collaborations that could not be developed in the Nordic region alone. The next Globus Call will be announced in spring 2023.
The Nordic Culture Fund has awarded DKK 6.5 million to 37 projects in the last round of Project Funding this year. By the deadline on 3 October, the Fund received 178 valid applications.
On 29 November, the Nordic Culture Fund will participate in a cultural policy summit in Oslo. The meeting will gather actors within cultural policy and the cultural field in the Nordic region to discuss challenges, need and opportunities within the artistic and cultural field.
The second meeting in the series of network meetings ‘curated conversations’ will take place at the Cultural Centre Hanaholmen, Finland 14-15 November. Participants from all Nordic countries will discuss and further develop the topic of artistic freedom.
As part of the Swedish presidency of the Nordic Culture Fund Board between 2022-2023, Gunilla Carlsson has been appointed as new chairperson. Kajsa Ravin will continue as vice-chair.
New report proposes actionable ways to strengthen music ecosystems in remote and small communities. The research project is a part of an ongoing partnership with the Center for Music Ecosystems, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Nordic Culture Fund’s Globus initiative.
Kajsa Ravin, the Deputy Chair of the Fund’s board moderated a major side event about ‘Culture as a global public good: a human-centered agenda for cultural policies’ on the 29th of September.
The Nordic Culture Fund has joined forces with a number of actors and organizations in new types of partnership projects. The work will provide a flexible framework for developing initiatives that contribute to new knowledge about the arts and culture field and stimulate policy development in specific areas.
At the seminar, current trends in and challenges to artistic freedom were discussed by an international panel of experts. The aim of the conversation was to contribute to a developed and nuanced understanding of artistic freedom and its importance in a changing world.
How can the Nordic Region adapt cultural life so that people with disabilities have the same opportunities to participate in cultural activities and create art themselves? The Nordic Culture Fund will be discussing these issues at the conference, which is being organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The Fund has updated the criteria for Project Funding. The aim of the funding programme has not been changed, but the criteria and requirements have been adjusted and clarified. The new criteria apply already for your next application.
You can now find the annual report from 2021 on the Fund’s webpage. In the report we tell about our strategic efforts and the opportunities we see for the Nordic cultural co-operation in the future.
The Committee has published a joint statement in connection with official negotiations on the Nordic budget for 2023.
In this year’s second round of project funding, the Fund has awarded funding to 37 projects with a total amount of DKK 6.003.000. By the date of the deadline, 2 May, The Fund had received 133 valid applications.
Nordisk Kunstnerråd opfordrer til, at Nordisk Ministerråds kulturbudget genoprettes og styrkes. Nordisk Kunstnerråd består af de nationale kunstnerråd i de nordiske lande – KLYS, BIL, Forum Artis, Dansk Kunstnerråd, Kunstnerettverket og Samisk Kunstnersammenslutning – som tilsammen repræsenterer næsten 100.000 professionelle kunstnere inden for forskellige kunstområder i de nordiske lande.
Globus Call is the newest strand within the Fund’s overall Globus initiative 2020-2024. Applications can be submitted through annual application rounds. The first Call will run from the 6th of June until the 3rd of October 2022.