Entries ae currently been submitted for the 2018 Swedish Institute Creative Force Grants Program, eligible persons are by this notice invited to apply for this program.
It is a funding programme for international projects which work though media or the arts to strengthen basic freedoms and rights. It offers two types of grant:
Seed Funding is available for carrying out a planning trip, a visit or a pilot project, for example.
Collaborative Projects are larger projects with a creative, capacity-building aspect and sustainable goals. You can also use this funding to scale-up a project which has previously received Seed Funding.
Type: Grants
Value of Award:
Seed Funding: up to SEK 100,000 for an initiative which you must complete within 12 months.
Collaborative Projects: up to SEK 500,000 per 12-month period. A project may last 24 months at most (in other words, you can apply for max. SEK 1 million).
Eligible Countries:
In Africa and Middle East & North Africa (MENA): Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
In Eastern Europe & Turkey: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, Ukraine and Turkey
Russia: Northwestern Russia
Eligibility:
Any type of organisation which is registered in Sweden.
Your organisation must have been registered for at least one year (for seed funding) or two years (for collaborative projects).
You must write your application jointly with a partner organisation in one (or more) of the Creative Force target countries (see below).
