Nordic Culture Fund’s Globus Opstart Programme

The programme focuses in particular on projects that operate with an exploratory approach in building collaborations and seeking new knowledge in order to develop and strengthen their practice in a global framework.

The aim is to help with creating networks that are characterised by deep relations and duration. Therefore, they encourage you to explore and establish clear structures and project organizations, which can lead to the formation of global networks.

Funding Information

• You can apply for max. DKK 50,000. Fees may comprise 80% (though no more than DKK 30,000) of the applied Globus Opstart grant.
• Project period
  • You can only apply for funding for activities that take place after you have received a decision from the Nordic Culture Fund. The processing time for applications is 20 workdays. The project can therefore start 20 workdays after the application date.
  • The project should be completed within one year of the project’s start date. Please contact the secretariat if a granted project cannot be finalized within the planned time frame.

Criteria

• You can apply as an individual, group, institution, association, company, public or private organisation.
• The projects must be clearly linked to artistic and/or cultural environments. The Nordic Culture Fund does not fund projects that focus primarily on, for example, sporting events, business development, technological development and innovation, the social area, journalism or social science.

Assessment Criteria

• Your project must have a Nordic anchoring but must not be able to be developed in the Nordic region alone. Support from the fund is dependent on binding participation and contributions from artists and cultural practitioners who are working outside the Nordic Region. They also look at how the project’s cooperation is reflected in the budget.
• They look also at how the project works with an exploratory approach in building collaborations, seeking out new knowledge and qualifications and thereby developing their practice in a global framework.
• They look at how the project thinks new in terms of idea, theme and in relation to the establishment of networks and collaboration and artistic development.
• Projects that are assessed to be able to be developed within the Fund’s Project Funding and Opstart programmes cannot, in principle, obtain support from Globus Opstart.

For more information, visit Nordic Culture Fund.