Cultural entrepreneurship

When you apply for a grant or a contribution from a fund you frequently come across the term 'cultural entrepreneurship'. When evaluating your application, chances are that a grantee or fund will consider the extent to which you can demonstrate cultural entrepreneurship.

In short, this means that it is important that you do not depend solely on a grant. You are also expected to make an effort to obtain income in other ways to fund your initiative or project. This is also known as co-financing.

We recommend that in your project plan or plan of action you describe as concretely as possible how you will ensure an optimal funding mix and how you will realize those various sources of funding. Describe how you will generate your own or private funds. Also indicate how this relates to the public funds or contributions from the government. Finally, it is good to describe how you are trying to work efficiently and in what ways you are trying to reduce costs. For the latter, you can, for example, indicate which partners you cooperate with and how you do so.

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