Partnerships lead to new knowledge and long-term commitment

Strategic partnerships

Our work with partnerships builds on our efforts through many years of networking and cultural policy development at a Nordic level.

Through projects on themes such as sustainable development for cultural institutions and arts intervention with health, we are helping to bring arts and culture into new conversations.

As a facilitator, we have an active role in bringing new perspectives to our partnerships. We inspire new conversations and take responsibility for ensuring that the framework is flexible and the commitment long-term. In this way, we help to ensure a mutual understanding of the role of arts and culture in the development of our society.

Examples of current initiatives

Cooperation with the Bikuben Foundation on development programs for cultural institutions

Artistic development and business strategy do not always go hand in hand. That’s why, together with the Bikuben Foundation, we have put together a development programme for cultural institutions to help them realise their potential. The aim is to ensure their sustainable development by, among other things, strengthening the business strategy and developing activities that can unlock their potential

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Arts & Health Collective – Working with WHO

Can art and culture benefit the health sector and vice versa? That’s the question as academics, artists, cultural institutions, health professionals and policymakers from several countries come together in this partnership to explore effective and sustainable strategies for integrating arts and culture broadly into the health sector.

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Critical Voices – Collaboration with UNESCO

The project seeks to strengthen dialogue on the diversity of cultural expressions and the diverse role of cultural policies in the world.

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Opportunities for development grant in the context of partnerships

As part of broadening the circle of key stakeholders in Nordic cultural cooperation and supporting the Fund’s strategic efforts, the Fund can award development grants to new Nordic partnerships.

We have established the following principles to guide the Fund’s work and allocation of development grants:

• Development grants will be awarded to projects characterized by the experimental development of themes relevant to the Fund’s strategy or the development of the Fund’s thematic initiatives.
• Development funding is awarded to projects that are developed as closer collaborations, so that the partners, including the Nordic Culture Fund, can follow the projects over a delimited period of time and acquire unique and relevant knowledge.
• Within the framework of development grants, both short-term and longer general agreements, can be made with partners who work to develop relevant themes or focus areas within the Nordic Culture Fund’s strategy and which support the Fund’s objectives.
• Applications for development grants are not possible. The selection of projects, e.g. partnerships, to receive development funding is based on the Fund’s external dialogue and networking. The Fund’s resources are distributed and monitored in accordance with the rules of project grants from the Nordic Culture Fund.