Submit Applications for Immerse\Interact Grant Scheme (Netherlands)

Projects result in physical and/or virtual presentations, products or installations, intended for an audience.

Objectives

• The scheme complements the Fund’s following general objectives:
  • promoting artistic quality and the development of artistic quality;
  • stimulating experiment, research, reflection and debate;
  • promoting talent development.

Grant Categories

• Individual maker’s development contribution
• Individual maker’s realization contribution
• Producer’s development contribution
• Producer’s realization contribution

Funding Information

• Within this scheme, applications will be accepted for:
  • Individual maker’s development contribution: The application is a maximum of €15,000. In addition, an additional maximum of €5,000 for coaching can be applied for.
  • Individual maker’s realization contribution: The application is a maximum of €35,000.
  • Producer’s development contribution: The application is a maximum of €25,000. An additional maximum of €5,000 for coaching can be applied for, if this has, in the board’s opinion, been thoroughly substantiated in the application.
  • Producer’s realization contribution: The application is a maximum of €125,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The grant scheme is open to projects initiated by professional makers, collectives and producers. The applicant has a demonstrable track record in the field of immersive and interactive media and is listed in the register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The level of the amount applied for depends on the applicant’s main activity.
• A grant will only be provided when the following conditions have been met:
  • the project is in line with the Fund’s mission statement as expressed in Article 1 and the scope and objective expressed in Article 3;
  • the applicant is professionally active within the film or creative industry and is registered as such in the Commercial Register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce or one of the Chambers of Commerce that fall within the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
  • the applicant has a demonstrable track record in the field of immersive media forms;
  • there is a budget deficit and, in the board’s opinion, the need for a grant has been demonstrated;
  • in the case of a realization contribution, the grant is a maximum of 85% of the total budget, including any development costs;
  • based on the applicant’s working method, it can reasonably be expected that the goals set by the applicant will be achieved;
  • the applicant did not fall short in complying with its grant obligations in the context of a project for which the Creative Industries Fund NL or the Netherlands Film Fund previously provided a grant.

Ineligibility Criteria

• No grant is provided to or for:
  • institutions that have a structural grant relationship with the Dutch Government;
  • projects that have already been subsidized under one of the Fund’s other grant schemes, with the exception of a starting grant;
  • projects that have already been subsidized under one of the Netherlands Film Fund‘s other grant schemes;
  • projects initiated by applicants who, during the project period, have already received support for the implementation of their development plan under the Talent Development Grant Programme for the Creative Industry from the Fund;
  • projects for which, at the time of the application, an application is already being processed under another Fund’s grant scheme.

For more information, visit Creative Industry Stimulation Fund.