Travel Funding for Individual Professional Practitioners of Art and Culture

Mobility funding 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. The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme comprises three forms of funding: Mobility funding, Network funding and Funding for artist residencies.

For example, the purpose of the trip can be:

• a collaboration with colleagues in another Nordic and/or Baltic country
• a guest play
• an exhibition
• participation in a conference, meeting or workshop
• research

What is eligible for funding?

• Mobility funding gives individual applicants access to contacts, expertise and knowledge from different parts of the region. Funding can also be used to present art and culture productions and to raise interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.
• Mobility funding is available for professional artists’ or cultural practitioners’ travel and/or stay within the Nordic and/or Baltic countries, that is to say: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland.

Funding is not available for:

• trips within one and the same country/area
• trips to or from countries outside the Nordic/Baltic region
• trips which are a part of the applicant’s formal studies
• organisational or company travel
• official travel for employees in public administration – e.g. state authorities, municipalities, regions or the equivalent
• activities that have already been carried out The earliest start date for activities funded by the programme is eight weeks after the application deadline
• Mobility funding is not usually granted for residencies. The reason is that the programme supports residency activities through a special form of funding (Funding for artist residencies). However, not all residencies are covered by this funding. Since the primary purpose of mobility funding is to strengthen artistic and cultural co-operation between professionals, travel applications for a residency period can be taken into account if the primary purpose of the stay is co-operation with other artists
• Students are not granted mobility funding. However, professional artists and cultural practitioners can apply for funding in some cases, if the purpose of the trip is not linked to studies, but is part of the artist’s continued professional work.

Eligibility Criteria

• Funding is available for professional artists and cultural practitioners (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) in all forms of art and culture. “Professional” means that there is documented experience of work in the field of art and culture and/or training in art or culture.
• Mobility funding can only be granted to individuals. You cannot apply for funding for another person. If you apply as part of a group traveling together within the framework of the same project, all group members must submit individual applications. The user account that you create in the application system must be for an individual applicant in order to apply for mobility funding.
• To be able to apply for mobility funding, the applicant must be a resident of the Nordic Region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland) or the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania), although the applicant does not have to be a Nordic or Baltic citizen.
• An invitation or letter of intent must be attached to the application. It must state who is being invited and by whom. In addition, an invitation can also contain information about what the applicant is being offered by the inviting party.
• Please note that the language of the programme is English. Both the application and invitation or letter of intent must therefore be submitted in English.

For more information, visit Nordic Culture Point.