Elske Nissen
Grant deadlines January through June 2025
We have listed the deadlines and continuing arrangements of many funds and grantees for you. Is a deadline missing from the list? If so, please let us know!
Do you have questions about financing your project? We can give you tailored advice in our consulting sessions or during our grant consultations and Monday Club.
Municipality of Arnhem
- March 1, 2025: Subsidy Scheme for Productions, Events and Festivals
1a. applications for public events (up to €10,000)
2. applications for cultural productions and festivals (project grant)
Municipality of Nijmegen
- Sept. 1 to Oct. 1: One-year cultural grants for 2025
- Nov. 1: Urban sports and culture
Province of Gelderland
- Jan. 1, 2026: Youth performing arts
- Jan. 1, 2028: Cultural infrastructure and culture and heritage participation
- Jan. 1, 2026: Gelderland thematic storylines
- Jan. 1, 2026: Artistic talent development professionals
The Cultural Fund (nationwide)
- Continuous : Visual arts
- Continuous : Music
- Ongoing :Heritage & Historic Preservation
- Continuous : History & Literature
- Continuous : Theater, dance & film
- Ongoing: individual visual artists
- Continuous : Visual arts
- Ongoing : Heritage & Historic Preservation
- Continuous : History and literature
- Continuous : Music
The Culture Fund deadlines (Culture in Gelderland)
- Jan. 15, 2025 (meeting date: March 14, 2025)
- April 15, 2025 (meeting date: June 6, 2025)
Poppunt Gelderland
- April 1, 2025, June 17, 2025: Music Support Gelderland
fund for cultural participation
- Feb. 29, 2024 to Dec. 31, 2026: Making Culture Together: Open Call Children and Young People's Allowance Affair
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
- Jan. 23, 2025: Regulation Digital Culture
- Jan. 23, 2025: Regulation Architecture
- Jan. 23, 2025: Regulation Design
- Feb. 24: Open Call Residency Van Doesburghuis 2025
- Close at 10 applications: Vouchers Salone del Mobile 2025
- Close to 6 awards: Open Call Architecture Biennale 2025
fund Performing arts
- March 4, 2025: New creators
- March 26, 2025: Music author development grant
- April 2, 2025, July 2, 2025: Foreign performances or concerts in the Netherlands
- April 2, 2025, July 2, 2025: Grant for Dutch presentations abroad
- April 2, 2025, July 2, 2025: International co-productions
- April 2, 2025, July 2, 2025: Foreign performances or concerts in the Netherlands
- April 2, 2025, July 2, 2025: Grant for Dutch presentations abroad
- April 2, 2025, July 2, 2025: International co-productions
- April 9, 2025: Production grant
- April 9, 2025: Production grant
- June 25, 2025: commission composition or libretto
- Ongoing: urban projects program
- Ongoing: Upstream: Music
- No later than eight weeks after the festival: festival pop music programming (Dutch bands)
- Maximum one month before the first performance abroad: Dutch performances or concerts abroad
Sena
- March 9, 2025 & June 22, 2025: Sena Music Production Fund
- Ongoing: Sena Producers fund (SoCu)
- Ongoing: Sena Performers fund (SoCu)
Mondrian fund
- Feb. 20-May 22: Publication
- March 20: Art Media
- Ongoing: Purchases
- Ongoing: Protected Cultural Property
- Ongoing: Curator Reviewer
- Ongoing: Art Heritage Presentation
- Continuous: Art Assignment
- Ongoing: Art Presentation International
- Ongoing: Artist Basic
- Ongoing: Artist Project
- Ongoing: Artist Start
- Ongoing: artist's fee
- Ongoing: Mobile Heritage Restoration
- Ongoing: Voucher Crafts
- Ongoing: Voucher Co-creation
- Ongoing: Voucher International
- Ongoing: Voucher Artist with child
- Ongoing: Voucher development
BNG Culture Fund
- April 18: BNG Culture Fund
Lira fund
- March 19-May 28: For writing assignments and readings.
- June 2025: Scholarship Scheme Scientific Books
fund ZOZ
- Feb. 15, March 15, April 15, May 15, June 15: Special art and cultural projects that bring nuance and promote dialogue.
ZOZ Academy
- February 15, March 15, April 15, May 15, June 15: For content research and creation of initial artistic pilot.
Literary Fund
- Jan. 27: Project grants for literary and literary-educational activities
- Feb. 1, 2025 : Schwob (translated, modern forgotten classics and major works of world literature)
- March 15 (starters), June 15 (oevre builders): Development grants authors
- March 15 (starters), June 15 (oevre builders): Project grants for publications
- Ongoing: Makers beyond the book
- Ongoing: production costs special expenses
- Ongoing: Start-up and development grants for literary translators
- Ongoing: project grants for literary translation.
NORMA fund
Theater performance or concert series.
- January 31: round 1
- April 30: round 2 (opens April 1, 2025)
- July 31: round 3 (opens July 1, 2025)
Hollyhock Foundation
Amarte
- Ongoing: development grant and project grant in the disciplines of visual arts, theater, film, music, literature and interdisciplinary. Focus on talent development.
- Ongoing: X Amarte - various open calls made possible by Amarte in collaboration with other organizations
Film Fund
- Feb. 3-April 22: Realization long documentary.
- Feb. 3-April 22: Realization of feature and feature-length animated film
- Feb. 3-April 22: Production development feature film and feature-length animated film
- Feb. 3, April 22: Realization of short animation
- Feb. 3, April 22: Realization Research & Experiment
- Jan. 27-May 6: Netherlands Film Production Incentive High-End Series
- Jan. 27-May 6: Netherlands Film Production Incentive
- Jan. 20-April 14: Realization minority co-production in collaboration with VAF
- March 3: CineDoc
- March 3: CineScoop
- March 10-May 6: Realization minority co-production short animation and research & experimentation
- March 10-May 6: Realization minority co-production feature film, feature-length animated film and documentary
- January 27, March 24, May 26: Pitch FilmIdee
- Feb. 10, March 24: Kaleidoscope
- January 20-April 14: Cinema release foreign arthouse film or documentary in the Netherlands
- Feb. 24-May 26: Teledoc
- April 1: ImmerseInteract
- March 17: Realization minority co-production in collaboration with HBF
- Jan. 27-May 12: Film Festival
- Feb. 10, June 9: Teledoc Campus
- March 10-May 6: Realization minority co-production feature film, feature-length animated film and documentary
- Feb. 3-April 22: Realization long documentary
- Feb. 3-April 22: Realization of feature and feature-length animated film
- Feb. 3-April 22: Production development feature film and feature-length animated film
- Feb. 3, April 22: Realization of short animation
- Feb. 3, April 22: Realization Research & Experiment
- Jan. 27-May 6: Netherlands Film Production Incentive High-End Series
- Jan. 27-May 6: Netherlands Film Production Incentive
- January 27, March 24, May 26: Pitch FilmIdee
- Ongoing: script development long documentary
- Ongoing: development of short animation
- Ongoing: Development Research & Experiment
- Ongoing: project development
- Ongoing: script development feature film
- Continuous: Finishing long documentary
- Ongoing: Distribution Dutch Film Production in the Netherlands
- Ongoing: international festival selection
- Ongoing: Developing minority co-production i.c.w. NFI
- Ongoing: Realizing minority co-production i.c.w. NFI
- Continuous: Film meeting
- Ongoing: Training (individual)
- Ongoing: Training (labs/organizations)
Retrospective On the Border #6 - between values and rebuttal
On Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, the Mariënburg Chapel in Nijmegen filled up for the sixth edition of Over de Grens, Cultuur Academy's biannual talk show. This time the program focused on values, choices and finding your voice in a complex society. As an artist or organization, how do you deal with outside pressure, criticism or controversy? And where do you draw the line yourself?
Talent development in the region: Cultuur Academy launches Mentoring Program 2026
In January 2026 a new edition of Cultuur Academy's Mentorship Program will start: a year-long program in which ten young makers from Arnhem and Nijmegen will have the opportunity to further develop themselves artistically and professionally. Musicians, actors, visual artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers and interdisciplinary makers can apply until November 16, 2025.
Nijmegen launches NachtPulse: new fund for innovation and diversity in Nijmegen's night culture
On Monday, September 22, 2025, the first round of applications for NachtPulse will begin: a new Nijmegen fund designed for creators, initiatives, organizations and venues whose innovative ideas contribute to a vibrant, inclusive and diverse nightlife in the city. Cultuur Academy will manage and coordinate the fund .