Nordic Culture Fund creates new paths for future art and cultural cooperation
Through our funding programmes, partnerships and cultural policy work, we aim to stimulate the development of art and cultural life and ensure flexible frameworks for new transnational collaborations.
Get off to a better start with Opstart
Opstart is the Nordic Culture Fund’s investment in the initial phases of artistic and cultural projects. The programme supports the joint development of new and promising project ideas, with a view to strengthening the Nordic ambitions of the projects. You can apply for up to DKK 25,000, and there is no requirement for co-financing. Opstart has a rolling application deadline, and you will receive a reply within 20 working days.
Partnerships lead to new knowledge and long-term commitment
We stimulate policy development, debate art and culture from new angles and generate new knowledge together with a range of actors and organisations.
- - News
Maria Mediaas Jørstad, General Manager of Talent Norway will be the new Director of the Nordic Culture Fund from September 2023
As Director of the Nordic Culture Fund, Maria Mediaas Jørstad will contribute to the further development of the Fund’s forward-looking efforts to strengthen Nordic cultural cooperation. She will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations and the secretariat in Copenhagen.
- - News, Partnerships
New partnership initiative to advance music’s role in remote and rural communities around the world
The Music Policy Resilience Lab aims at implementing music policies in remote, rural and isolated communities in different parts of the world. The initiative builds on a previous collaboration between the Nordic Culture Fund and the global research organization Center for Music Ecosystems.
- - News, Puls
Final network meeting of the Nordic Culture Fund’s Puls initiative
The Nordic Culture Fund’s live music initiative Puls will come to an end in 2023. On 9 March, 47 Nordic concert organisers will gather in the Faroe Islands for the final annual network meeting.
- - News, Literature / spoken art
A Nordic Literary Summit will be held in Gothenburg on 27 September 2023
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.
Globus is created for a changing world
Globus is our major thematic initiative towards 2024. With Globus, we are turning our gaze outwards, bringing art and culture into global arenas, and giving artists and cultural practitioners new opportunities to seek support. The focus is on collaborations that simultaneously embrace both the local and the global.
Tieteellinen näyttämöruno
What does the world’s smallest theatre puppet look like? In this project, researchers and artists from Finland, the US, the Czech Republic and the UK have come together to create a theatre performance that will communicate the wondrous possibilities of micro- and nanotechnology through art and theatre.
The project is supported by Globus Opstart.
Curated Conversations in Reykjavik
In collaboration with the Nordic House in Reykjavik and the think tank a/nordi/c, the Nordic Culture Fund is holding a cultural policy network meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland. This will be the third and final meeting in the Curated Conversations series, bringing together selected individuals with diverse backgrounds in cultural institutions, foundations, research and artistic practice to discuss and explore issues that are central to arts and cultural life and cultural policy in the Nordic Region.
IFACCA 9th World Summit on Art and Culture
IFACCA (The International Federation of Arts Council and Cultural Agencies) is holding its 9th World Summit in Stockholm in collaboration with the Swedish Arts Council. The theme of the conference is “Safeguarding Artistic Freedom”. The Nordic Culture Fund will be involved in several programme items at the conference.
Our year in numbers
- 29
millions
The Nordic Culture Fund awards grants worth approximately DKK 29 million every year.
- 1400
applications
The Fund receives 1,400 applications every year.
- 350
projects
Every year approximately 180 receive Project Funding, 105 receive Opstart and about 57 receive Puls funding.
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