Funding in Europe

European funds in alphabetic order

Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures

The Middle East as well as the southern and eastern Mediterranean region form an area of vital strategic importance to the European Union. The general objective is to transform the Mediterranean basin into a common area of peace, stability and prosperity.www.euromedalex.org

BalkanKult

To support the mobility of artists, practitioners, ideas and works in order to build bridges between cultures and help the creation of new experiences and understanding.www.balkankult.org

CEI Fellowship

The CEI Fellowship is a newly established fellowship aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from Central European countries not yet part of the European Union. The fellowship is endowed with a cash award of EUR 5,000 for a three-month stay in any of the Central European Initiative Member States, selected by the candidate www.ceinet.org

Europa Nostra

Europa Nostra supports national and international campaigns for the preservation and rescue of Europe´s heritage at risk. It encourages exemplary initiatives in favour of the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage by recognising outstanding heritage achievements.www.europanostra.org

European Commision

Since its inclusion in the Treaty on the European Union, cultural cooperation has become a new community competency. The Culture site is aimed mainly at European cultural operators who want to set up cooperation projects with other European partners. Information on the numerous other EU policies for the promotion of culture is available on the European Culture Portal. ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm

ECF / Step Beyond

The European Cultural Foundation offers STEP Beyond, a mobility grant for artists, cultural operators, journalists, translators and researchers active in the cultural field. STEP beyond can be applied for all year long.

The ECF makes special grants available for intensifying the exchange between Western and Central/ Eastern Europe.

www.eurocult.org

Canon Foundation in Europe

Every year, the Canon Foundation in Europe awards up to 15 research fellowships. These supports are intended for young European and Japanese researchers (under 40), highly qualified in any discipline. The Canon fellowships are awarded to carry out research in Japan for Europeans, and in Europe for Japaneses, for periods of minimum three months and maximum one year.

The Canon Foundation also offers awards to European and Japanese outstanding scholars or leading members of private or public organizations. www.canonfoundation.org

Fundtracer

Fundtracer provides information on public funds, foundations, corporate giving programs, EU programs as well as on associations funding the arts. The website is right now covering Austria, Germany, Greece and Italy. The website intends to expand the information service to other countries.

www.fundtracer.org

Alexander Onassis Foundation

A grant-giving foundation which includes culture among its priorities and sponsors several international award schemes. It awards grants nationally (i.e. in Greece) and internationally for cultural projects with a Hellenic theme. www.onassis.gr

International Visegrad Fund

The International Visegrad Fund allows artists from Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia to apply for several grants. Check their website for the latest deadlines.www.visegradfund.org

Kulturkontakt Nord

Nordic Culture Point is the new contact point for Nordic cultural co-operation. It will primarily take responsibility for providing information and consultancy to professionals within the field of culture, act as a service function and serve as a secretariat for the framework programmes of the Nordic Ministries of Culture, as well as co-ordinate the activities of the Nordic cultural forums. Nordic Culture Point will also profile Nordic cultural co-operation within and outside the Nordic region. www.kknord.org

Open Society Institute

The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. They also offer grants and fellowships for in the field of media and culture. OSI Institute

Queen Jadwiga Fund

The Queen Jadwiga Fund provides scholarships for academic scholars and doctoral students from Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the Balkans, who wish to conduct scholarly research in the City of Cracow.www.jubileum.uj.edu.pl

Rave Scholarships

The Rave scholarships contribute to further practical training in arranging and realizing exhibitions. Twice a year the Rave Foundation awards these scholarships to curators from second- and third-world developing countries. Rave Scholarships

Robert Bosch Foundation

If you want to discover Central and Eastern European Countries, if you are planning a publication in German about Central and Eastern Europe or want to research in this region, you are invited to apply for a scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation.www.lcb.de/grenzgaenger

Roberto Cimetta Fund

The Roberto Cimetta Fund focusses on operators and artists in the Mediterranean. The fund offers small travel grants to individuals, which cover 75% of the travel and visa expenses necessary for participating in meetings of a professional cultural network.www.cimettafund.org

Rudolf Nureyev Foundation

Set up by Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev in 1975, the foundation supports individual dancers, organisations or companies and performances, with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

www.nureyev.org

The Budapest Observatory

The Budapest Observatory gives an overview of financing culture in East-Central Europe.

www.budobs.org

Thomassen Fund

The Thomassen Fund is a mobility fund aimed at widening and strengthening the participation of Central and Eastern European cultural management training institutions in ENCATC activities, providing a concrete opportunity to co-operate and to develop collaborative projects, by taking part in networking activities.Thomassen Fund

Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe

The CEE Trust promotes the development of civil societies in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The CEE Trust was conceived as a mechanism for facilitating the transition to independent, active and viable networks of organizations and citizens working for the public good. To achieve this goal, the CEE Trust meets the urgent need for funding to help non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society stakeholders (excluding business organizations, governmental institutions or municipalities) gain greater self-reliance and self-sufficiency in the seven countries of its operation.www.ceetrust.org

By country in alphabetic order

Finland

Frame

The Finnish Art Academy Foundation/FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange awards grants for the exhibition of contemporary fine art abroad. www.frame-fund.fi

France

Alliance Francaise

Alliance Francaise supports French Culture and the French Language. The fellowship programs are for French artists only.www.alliance-francaise.fr

Germany

Stiftungsindex Germany

This website contains more than 260 links and offers an extensive navigation aid to homepages of German Foundations.www.stiftungsindex.de

Iceland

Center for Icelandic Art

CIA is the platform for Icelandic Visual Art activities, which promotes the Iceland Art by connecting the local Visual Art Community with the International Arts.

www.cia.is

Poland

The Polish Cultural Institute

The PCIis a recently established diplomatic mission of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland to the United States.www.polishculture-nyc.org

Romania

ECUMEST

The long-term objective of the ECUMEST Association is to set-up a regional centre (in Eastern Europe) for analysis and expertise in the field of cultural policy and to initiate pilot programmes targeting young artists throughout the region, adapted to their needs of dialogue and mobility at European level.www.ecumest.ro

NexT Cultural Society

Aims to encourage and promote the work of young filmmakers in Romania by offering the information tools, training opportunities, assistance and support in producing and presenting their work.

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Ukraine

The Ukrainian Women’s Fund (UWF) is an international charitable organization founded in 2000. UWF provides public organizations, and particularly women’s organizations from Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, with financial, informational and consultational support. UWF represents the Network Women’s Program of the Open Society Institute - New York, and is a member of the International Network of Women’s Funds and the Ukrainian Donors’ Forum.

www.uwf.kiev.ua

United Kingdom

Arts Council England

The main funding program of the Arts Council of England is the Grants for the Arts. It is open to individuals, arts organisations, national touring and other people who use the arts in their work. The council supports activities that benefit people in England or that help artists and arts organisations from England to carry out their work.

www.artscouncil.org.uk

Creative Export

Creative Export hosts a website sponsored by The British Council and contains information on international experience in the creative sector on case studies and market research.

www.creativexport.co.uk

The Henry Moore Foundation

The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity, set-up and endowed by Mr Moore in 1977 ’to advance the education of the public by the promotion of their appreciation of the fine arts and in particular the works of Henry Moore’. The Foundation also supports a wide range of projects and activities in the visual arts through its donations programme. Among areas covered are student bursaries, fellowships for artists and grants to art institutions, galleries and museums.

www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

Scottish Arts Council

The Scottish Arts Council offers support to individual artists for research and development, training, production and presentation of work. This may take the form of grants, awards, bursaries or other artists-led projects.

www.scottisharts.org.uk

Visiting Arts

Every year Visiting Arts is offering their The Project Awards. This program was developed to advance the presentation of international art in the UK and to stimulate intercultural understanding.