Grant deadlines June through December 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

• From September 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 through Sept. 30 (for 2026): One-year cultural grants
• Until November 1: Urban sports and culture
• Until Dec. 15: Training and development self-employment (Tool PPO)

Province of Gelderland

• Until January 1, 2026: Youth Performing Arts
• Until January 1, 2026: Gelderland thematic storylines
• through Jan. 1, 2026: Artistic talent development professionals
• to Jan. 1, 2028: Cultural infrastructure and culture and heritage participation

The Cultural Fund (nationwide)

• Ongoing: visual arts
• Continuous: Music
• Ongoing:Heritage
• Ongoing: historic preservation
• Ongoing: History
• Ongoing: Literature
• Continuous: Theatre
• Continuous: Dance
• Continuous: Film
• Ongoing: individual visual artists
• Ongoing: visual arts
• Ongoing: History and Literature
• Continuous: Music
• Ongoing: project application Suriname

Het Cultuurfonds (Cultuur in Gelderland)

• July 9, 2025 (Sept. 26, 2025 meeting date).
• Sept. 24, 2025 (Dec. 12, 2025 meeting date)

Poppunt Gelderland (Music Support Gelderland).

• Deadline round 3: June 17, 2025
• Deadline round 4 and XL round: Sept. 2, 2025
• Deadline round 5: November 11, 2025

fund for cultural participation

• through June 30, 2025: Strengthening national amateur arts infrastructure
• to August 30, 2025: Cultural education in secondary schools
• through Aug. 30, 2025: Talent Development
• Through December 31, 2026: Making Culture Together: Open Call Children and Youth Allowances Affair
• From May 15, 2025: Making Culture Together: Open Call Youth Making Culture
• From June 2, 2025: Cultural education for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom - Curaçao, Aruba and St. Maarten
• From June 30, 2025: Co-creation - Working together on culture
• to March 29, 2028: Cultural education in vmbo, vso and pro

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie

• June 11, 2025: Open Call Residency Think Tangier 2026
• Opens Aug. 19: Digital culture scheme
• Opens Aug. 19: Scheme Architecture
• Opens Aug. 19: Scheme Design
• September 30, 2025: ImmerseInteract regulation

fund Performing arts

• June 25, 2025: commission composition or libretto
• July 2, Sept. 17, 2025: Foreign performances or concerts in the Netherlands
• July 2, September 17, 2025: Grant for Dutch presentations abroad
• July 2, Sept. 17, 2025: Foreign performances or concerts in the Netherlands
• July 2, September 17, 2025: Grant for Dutch presentations abroad
• July 2, Sept. 17, 2025: International co-productions
• September 3, 2025: Production grant
• September 3, 2025: Production grant
• Sept. 17, 2025: Music author development grant
• 3 december 2025: De Programma- en Presentatiebijdrage
• 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

• June 22, 2025: Sena Music Production Fund
• Ongoing: Sena Producers fund (SoCu)
• Ongoing: Sena Performers fund (SoCu)

Mondrian fund

• Sept. 25, 2025: Arts 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

• September 30, 2025: BNG Culture Fund

Lira fund

• Aug. 27 & Nov. 5, 2025: For writing assignments and readings.
• June 30, 2025: Scholarship Scheme Scientific Books

fund ZOZ

• Sept. 15, Oct. 15, Nov. 15 & Dec. 1 Special art and cultural projects that bring nuance and promote dialogue.

ZOZ Academy

• September 15, October 15, November 15 & December 1: For content research and creation of initial artistic pilot.

Literary Fund

• June 5 (oevre builders): Development grants authors
• June 15 (oevre builders): Project grants for publications
• June 27, 2025: Project grants for literary and literary education activities
• 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

• July 31: Round 3 (opens July 1 & October 1, 2025): Theater performance or concert series

Hollyhock Foundation

• Ongoing: Seed grant (development grant for young and emerging visual creators)

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

• June 9, 2025, October 6, 2025: Teledoc Campus
• July 7, 2025, October 13, 2025: Realization long documentary
• July 7, 2025, October 13, 2025: Realization feature film and long animated film
• July 7, 2025, October 13, 2025: Realization short animation
• July 7, 2025, October 13, 2025: Realization Research & Experimentation
• Aug. 18, 2025, Oct. 27, 2025: Cinema release foreign arthouse film or documentary in the Netherlands
• Aug. 25-Oct. 27, 2025: Netherlands Film Production Incentive
• Aug. 25-Oct. 13, 2025: Realization minority co-production short animation and research & experimentation
• September 1, 2025: CineDoc
• Sept. 1, 2025: CineScoop
• Sept. 8, 2025, Oct. 2025: Kaleidoscope
• Sept. 8, 2025: Realizing minority co-production i.c.w. VAF
• September 22, 2025: Pitch FilmIdee
• Sept. 30, 2025: ImmerseInteract
• Oct. 6, 2025: Realization minority co-production in collaboration with HBF
• Oct. 6, 2025: Film Festival
• Oct. 20, 2025: Teledoc
• Oct. 27, 2025: Netherlands Film Production Incentive High-End Series
• Ongoing: Scenario Development Feature Film and Long Animation Film
• Ongoing: development of short animation
• Ongoing: Development Research & Experiment
• Ongoing: project development
• 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)

Groeispurt

The Groeispurt is a Nijmegen subsidy scheme for art and culture that supports new initiatives in their artistic development by giving them room for experimentation. The scheme offers a quick and flexible form of support to promote artistic growth and experimentation.

Stroomversneller

The Stroomversneller is an Arnhem arts and culture subsidy scheme that supports new initiatives in their artistic development by giving them room for experimentation. The scheme offers a fast and flexible form of support to promote artistic growth and experimentation.