Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme: Funding for Artist Residencies

Funding for artist residencies is part of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, which strengthens artistic and cultural cooperation in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. The programme focuses on increasing the exchange of knowledge, contacts and interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.

How much money can you apply for?

• Funding for residency centres can amount to EUR 50,000. The funding is to be managed by the centre and shall cover costs arising from the Nordic or Baltic artist’s residency stay at the centre. The funding can also include remuneration to the artist during their stay.

What is eligible for funding?

• Nordic and Baltic residency centres can apply for funding to invite artists from other Nordic and Baltic countries. The purpose of the programme is to promote mobility between the Nordic and Baltic countries.
• Funding for artist residencies is available for all areas of art and culture. During their residency, the artists must have the opportunity to focus on their work without distraction, meet other artists, and establish contacts with local practitioners of art and culture.
• The application should include plans to invite at least two professional artists from two other Nordic or Baltic countries outside the one where the centre operates. The funding does not cover artists who live in the same country in which the residency centre is located.
• Although there is no limit to the length of a residency stay, the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture recommends longer stays of approximately 2-4 months, if possible. The funding can cover the calendar year in which the application is submitted, plus two additional years. Funding is not available for activities that have commenced and/or been completed before the decision on the application has been made. This means that the activities applied for cannot start before two months after the application deadline.
• As long as the application meets the above requirements, the residency centre itself can select the artists based on its own guidelines. You can invite both individual artists and small groups. Artists can be selected through an open call following the grant decision, or you can apply for funding for the artists that have already been selected.

Who is eligible to apply?

• Funding can be applied for by existing residency centres or organisations, institutions and groups that that have at least one year of documented experience of organising residencies in the fields of art and culture.
• Individual applicants cannot apply for funding for artist residencies.
• Residency centres applying for funding must be located in the Nordic Region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland) or the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and the invited artists must have a permanent address in one of these countries. However, they do not need to be a Nordic or Baltic citizen.
• The funding covers all areas of art and culture.

For more information, visit Nordic Culture Point.