Funding for 400 projects last year

Föstudagur, 04 Júní 2010 08:08

Last year 400 projects were granted funding from the Culture and Art Programme and the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture for a total amount of over 3, 3 million euro.

The two programmes received all in all 1415 applications in 2009, of which 28 percent were granted funding. The previous year 915 applications were submitted and 25 percent of them were granted funding. In 2009, the total amount of applied funding was over 16, 2 million euro. The figures are based on Nordic Culture Point’s statistical report, which can be downloaded here .

Many art and culture field were represented in the funded projects, including projects from the fields of visual arts, dance, design, architecture, handicraft, literature, music, theatre, media, cultural heritage and film, among others.  Many of the projects are cross-cultural and represent more than one field of art and/or culture.

Both of the programmes received applications from all Nordic countries and autonomous areas.
In the beginning of 2009 the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the mobility programme. These countries have been active in making use of the opportunities offered by the programme: 364 applications were received from the Baltic countries and 80 of them were granted funding.

The report states how many applications the different modules received from each country. Statistics are also provided of the number projects each country participated in.

Neither of the programmes has quotas in relation to country/autonomous area or field of art or culture.