Mobility funding

The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture strengthens artistic and cultural cooperation in the Nordic region and Baltic states. The programme focuses on increasing the exchange of knowledge, contacts, presence 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 residenceies.

Which activities are funded?

The Mobility funding provides individual applicants access to contacts, skills and knowledge from different parts of the region. Funding may also be used to present artistic and cultural productions and to increase interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture.

Mobility funding is intended for the travel and/or stay of professional artists or cultural workers within Nordic and/or Baltic countries. That is: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the Åland Islands.

The purpose for the journey may be, for example:

• cooperation with colleagues in one of the Nordic or Baltic countries
• a special performance
• exhibitions
• participation in conferences, meetings and workshops
• research

You cannot apply for funding for:

• travel solely within the same country/area
• travel to or from countries outside the Nordic region/Baltic states.
• travel as part of the applicant’s degree programme
• corporate or business travel
• travel for employees of public administration – for example, state authorities, municipalities, regions or equivalent.
• activities that have already been completed. At the earliest, activities that are supported by the programme may begin 8 weeks after the application deadline.

Mobility funding for artists traveling to residencies is normally not prioritized. This is due to the fact that the programme supports residency activities though a separate module (Funding for artist residencies). However, not all residencies are covered by this module. As the primary purpose of the Mobility funding is to strengthen artistic and cultural cooperation between professionals, the module might consider applications for travel to a residency if the main purpose of the journey is to collaborate with other artists.

Students are not granted mobility funding as a part of their degree. However, in some cases, working artists and cultural workers may apply for funding if the purpose of the travel is not linked directly to their studies, but is a part of the artist’s continued professional career.

Who can apply?

Only artists and other professionals in the arts and culture field (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) within all fields of culture and art can apply for funding.

“Professional” means that the applicant has documented experience of working within the field of art and culture and/or have completed an education in art or culture.

Mobility funding can only be granted for individuals. You cannot apply funding on behalf of another person. If you are applying as part of a small group traveling together for the same project, all members of the group must submit individual applications. You state the names of the other group members in the application form.

Therefore, the user account which you create in our application system can only be registered as an individual applicant to apply for Mobility funding.

In order to apply for mobility funding, the applicant must reside in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Åland Islands) or Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania). However, it is not necessary for the applicant to have Nordic or Baltic nationality.

You will have to attach an invitation or letter of intent, to the application. It should state who is invited, and by whom. Moreover, an invitation letter can also state what the applicant is being offered by the inviting organization/institution/group/etc.