
Grant deadlines July through December 2024
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
- Oct. 1: Productions, Events and Festivals grant scheme
- 1a. public event applications (up to €10,000).
- 2. applications for cultural productions and festivals (project grant)
Municipality of Nijmegen
- Oct. 1: One-year cultural grants for 2025
- Dec. 15: Training and development self-employment (Tool PPO)
- Ongoing: urban sports and culture
Province of Gelderland
- Sept. 30: Youth Performing Arts
- Oct. 1: Small museums and historical organizations
- Dec. 31: Culture and heritage pacts (multiyear program municipalities)
- Dec. 31: Gelderland themed storylines
- Dec. 31: Artistic talent development professionals
The Cultural Fund (nationwide)
- July 1: Visual arts
- July 8: Music
- July 12: Heritage & Historic Preservation
- July 19: History & Literature
- Sept. 5: Theater, dance & film
- Sept. 5: Individual visual artists
- Sept. 26: Visual arts
- Sept. 27: Heritage & Historic Preservation
- Sept. 27: History and Literature
- Oct. 7: Music
The Culture Fund (Gelderland)
- Aug. 1: Culture in Gelderland
- Oct. 15: Culture in Gelderland
fund for cultural participation
- July 1: Cultural education vmbo vso pro
- July 1: Cultural education mbo
- July 1: Culture Education with Quality 2025-2028
- July 31: Heritage Making
- Aug. 28: Talent development
- Aug. 28: International Cooperation 2022-2024
- September 30: Making Culture Together: Open Call for Culture in the Neighborhood
- November 30: Making Culture Together: Open Call Young People Make Culture
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
- July 9: Open Call Climate justice
- Aug. 26: Open Call Across Borders
- Sept. 10: Regulation Digital Culture
- Sept. 19: Regulation Architecture
- Sept. 24: Regulation Design
- Oct. 1: Scheme Upstream: Music x Design
- Oct. 1: ImmerseInteract scheme
- Oct. 1: Design sector internationalization scheme
- Oct. 23: Regulation Festivals and public presentations
fund Performing arts
- July 3: Production grant
- July 3: Foreign performances or concerts in the Netherlands
- July 3: Grant for Dutch presentations abroad
- July 3: International co-productions
- July 24: Assignment composition or libretto
- Aug. 21: New creators
- Aug. 28: Working contribution music author
- Sept. 4: Work contribution theater text
- Sept. 18: Production grant
- Sept. 18: Foreign performances or concerts in the Netherlands
- September 18: Grant for Dutch presentations abroad
- Sept. 18: International co-productions
- Oct. 2: Podium arrangement
- Ongoing: urban projects program
- Ongoing: Upstream: Music
- Ongoing: pop music festival programming (Dutch bands)
- Ongoing: Dutch performances or concerts abroad
Sena
- Nov. 10: Sena Music Production Fund (opens June 24)
Poppunt Gelderland
- Sept. 3: Music Support round 4 (€1000)
- Sept. 3: Music Support XL (€5000)
- Sept. 3: Music Support round 5 (€1000)
Mondrian fund
- Aug. 29: Publication of work by living visual artist
- Sept. 5: Heritage Innovation
- Oct. 3: International Cooperation Projects Heritage Institutions
- Ongoing: Purchases
- Ongoing: Art Fair International
- Ongoing: Protected Cultural Property
- Ongoing: collection mobility
- Ongoing: Curator Reviewer
- Ongoing: Art Heritage Presentation
- Continuous: Art Assignment
- Ongoing: Art Presentation International
- Continuous: Art Connection
- 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
For projects in the field of arts and culture. Deadline:
- July 19
Lira fund
For writing assignments and readings. Deadlines:
- Aug. 28
- November 6
fund ZOZ
Projects aimed at reducing extremism, polarization and radicalization
Deadlines:
- July 1: fund ZOZ
- Sept. 15: ZOZ Academy (research, pilot making)
- Oct. 7: fund ZOZ
- Oct. 15: ZOZ Academy (research, pilot making)
- Nov. 15: ZOZ Academy (research, pilot making)
- Dec. 1: ZOZ Academy (research, pilot making)
Literary Fund
- Sept. 1: Schwob (translated, modern forgotten classics and important works of world literature)
- Sept. 1: Literary exchanges
- Sept. 1: Writers' lives, biography scheme
- Fall (no specific date given): Digital literary projects
- 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.
- July 31: round 3 (opens July 1)
- Oct. 31: round 4 (opens Oct. 1)
Hollyhock Foundation
Film Fund
- July 1: Realization of long documentary
- July 1: Realization of feature film and long animated film
- July 1: Production development feature film and feature-length animated film
- July 1: Realization of short animation
- July 1: Realization Research & Experiment
- July 8: Film Fund Wildcards
- Aug. 26: Netherlands Film Production Incentive High-End Series
- Aug. 26: Netherlands Film Production Incentive
- Aug. 26: Realization minority co-production in collaboration with VAF
- Sept. 2: CineDoc
- Sept. 2: CineScoop
- Sept. 2: Realization minority co-production short animation and research & experimentation
- Sept. 2: Realization minority co-production feature film, feature-length animated film and documentary
- September 2: Pitch FilmIdee
- Sept. 9: Filmfonds Shorts (fiction and documentary)
- Sept. 16: Kaleidoscope
- Sept. 16: Cinema release of foreign quality children's and youth films in the Netherlands
- Sept. 16: Cinema release foreign arthouse film or documentary in the Netherlands
- Sept. 16: Special Contribution Film Education
- Sept. 30: Teledoc
- Oct. 1: ImmerseInteract
- Oct. 7: Realization minority co-production in collaboration with HBF
- Oct. 7: Film Festival
- Oct. 7: Slate funding for scenario development
- Oct. 8: Teledoc Campus
- Oct. 14: Realization minority co-production feature film, feature-length animated film and documentary
- Oct. 14: Realization long documentary
- Oct. 14: Realization of feature and feature-length animated film
- Oct. 14: Production development feature film and feature-length animated film
- Oct. 14: Thuthuka
- Oct. 14: Realization of short animation
- Oct. 14: Realization Research & Experiment
- Oct. 21: Netherlands Film Production Incentive High-End Series
- Oct. 21: Netherlands Film Production Incentive
- November 4: 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
- Ongoing: finishing free film production
- Continuous: Film meeting
- Ongoing: Training (individual)
- Ongoing: Training (labs/organizations)
- Ongoing: publication and research
Cirrus Foundation
- November 20: Impulse meeting and connection: open call culture

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