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European Cultural Foundation - ECF

Collaboration grants for independent cultural and artistic organisations
http://www.eurocult.org/grants/collaboration-grants

We support arts and culture across wider Europe, by investing in
creativity and boundary‐crossing innovation.
Grants are at the core of our work. The connecting power of culture is
essential for creating open, inclusive and democratic societies: for
'building Europe'. We are looking for projects that have the potential to
inspire people to transcend boundaries in this process.

Our grants programme stimulates transnational cultural collaboration,
artistic expression and the mobility of artists and cultural actors. Our
various grants schemes relate to different ECF focus areas and to specific
regions of the Europea continent.

All of our activities revolve around the three strategic guiding principle
outlined below.

Applications that tie in with these principles will receive a higher score
in the assessment procedure.

We are interested in:

1.Diversity within our societies: projects that reduce exclusion and
conflict by bringing people together; projects that target new audiences
and create new places for showcasing culture.

2.Connecting Sources of Knowledge – we think sharing and connecting
knowledge is vital in creating an open Europe.

- cross‐sectoral and cross‐generational online and offline
collaborations: projects that try out innovative and creative partnerships
to develop/produce new work, broaden knowledge‐sharing and public
participation, as well as experiment with new technologies.

3. Linking Policy and Practice – we are interested in projects that help
build this open Europe by contributing to cultural policy development
locally, nationally, regionally and at European level.

Impacting on European cultural policy: projects that actively contribute
to policy and practice; that connect a local perspective to the European
level; also projects that bring cultural and political players together in
new ways, and that raise awareness and help prove the value of cultural
policy.

Eligibility Criteria

Collaboration grants fund transnational, cross‐sectoral activities
by artistic and cultural organisations working together or with
organisations from other sectors. Applications must be in line with all
the eligibility criteria. Please read these carefully, as proposals which
do not meet the criteria will not be considered.

1. Who is eligible?

- Lead applicant: independent artistic or cultural organisation based in Euro
- Partnering applicant: organisations from the cultural or other sectors.

2. What is eligible?

There are six different eligibility criteria. All of them are equally
important to us, which is why applications must be in line with all
eligibility criteria. Please read them carefully. Proposals that do not
meet these criteria will not be considered.

Partnership working methodology

Transnational collaboration in Europe is the key phrase for this grants
scheme. Projects are selected first and foremost on both their
transnational and collaborative aspects. We need to see the transnational
collaboration reflected in your entire application form. This means that
project partners must be involved in all aspects of the project; working
together on the planning, the development and the realisation. This also
implies that all partners should contribute financially to the project
(note that we also consider in‐kind contribution as financial
support).

Cultural focus

The project should have a strong cultural objective and a concrete end
product. In this sense, we support a variety of activities: the creation
of artistic work, media projects or cultural policy development, including
capacity‐building of cultural actors.

European dimension

The project must be organised by a cultural organisation in Europe
(following the Council of Europe’s definition, which comprises 47
countries). As we also encourage cooperation with the southern European
region, projects partnering with Mediterranean countries are also
eligible, as long as their content relates centrally to European
cross‐border cooperation. (Indeed, this is true for all projects we
support.) By ‘Mediterranean countries’ we refer to Algeria, Egypt, Israel,
Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.

Sustainability

The project must have a clear end‐result that can be evaluated.
Ideally, the project is a starting‐point for sustainable cooperation
between the partners.

Time frame

Project activities should only start after we have made our funding
decision (please check the exact planning for this grant scheme on the ECF
grants website section).
The project must be completed 18 months after the contract has been signed.

Financial

ECF can support up to 80% (max) of the total budget. We encourage
applicant organisations and their partners to demonstrate their own
contributions and to apply to other funders. This should be shown in the
budget outline.

ECF provides an average collaboration grant of Euro 15 000. The maximum
grant awarded is Euro 30 000.

ECF specifically welcomes the involvement of local funding partners, as we
believe this helps embed the project within the local context.

ECF may select your project even if your remaining budget has not yet been
secured when you are applying. Payment of the grant will be conditional on
an agreed percentage of other funding having been secured at least one
month before the start date of your project.


data limita: 01/03/11

Kontakt:
European Cultural Foundation
Esther Claassen
Jan van Goyenkade 5
1075 HN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 (0)20 573 38 68
fax: +31 (0) 20 675 2231
esther at eurocult.org
http://www.eurocult.org

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