Partnership projects

The new mentorship programme has been initiated by Nordiska Teaterledarrådet in cooperation with the Nordic Culture Fund. The aim of the programme is to strengthen leadership in the performing arts by providing support to theatre leaders who want to develop their current leadership through discussion and exchange of experience with colleagues from other Nordic countries.

A collaborative initiative between UNESCO and the Nordic Culture Fund focuses on the concept of ‘Culture as a Public Good’, with the aim of achieving a more widespread understanding of the role and importance of culture for the sustainable development of societies.

Good ideas and talent are not always enough in the arts and culture sector. Organizational skills and strategic focus can help ideas get off the ground and make a difference. That’s why, together with the Danish foundation Bikubenfonden, we have created a development program for cultural institutions to help them realize their potential.

As part of Globus, the Fund has started a partnership with IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies) that will allow us to include participants from the Global South at IFACCA’s 9th World Summit in Stockholm on 3-5 May 2023.

In 2021-2023, the Nordic Culture Fund will work with the Nordic institutions Hanaholmen (Finland), Nordic House in Reykjavik, Nordic House in the Faroe Islands and Nordic Institute in Greenland and a/nordi/c to organize a series of cultural policy network meetings.

Engaging with the arts is good for people, and can improve our lives and health in very concrete ways. Yet we have limited knowledge of how to integrate arts and culture in health care. WHO and the Nordic Culture Fund want to change this through a collaborative project.

How to develop and implement effective music policies in remote, rural and isolated communities in the Nordic and other regions in the world? This is the central question of the long-term partnership between the Nordic Culture Fund and the the nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems.

Artistic freedom is the most important thing we have. In collaboration with UNESCO, we have formed a Nordic alliance to strengthen international cooperation to ensure that artists, cultural operators, researchers and communicators can think, produce and communicate creatively and freely, even when the covid19 pandemic is behind us.

The cultural sector is often mentioned as an important driver for sustainable development, yet it is rare that ambitions are translated into practice and that artists and cultural operators themselves are involved in defining what this role means.

A/nordi/c – think tank for art and policies was set with basic funding from the Nordic Culture Fund. The think tank worked in 2021-2023 to bring artistic practice and political reality closer together. A summary of the think tank’s knowledge and activities can be found at anordic.org.