Arts Collaboratory offers support to organisation, programme and to specific projects that enhance the cultural entrepreneurship of your organisation.

  • Small scale support up to € 10.000. Support concerns starting initiatives, the development of a programmatic or financial network, profiling activities and capacity development.
  • Proposals of 1 to 3 years of more than € 10.000 a year. Support leads to professionalising the programme and organisation of the initiative and/or widening its outreach.

Who can apply?

Independent visual artists initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

  • Your organisation is independent and flexible.
  • Your organisation works from the artistic practice.
  • Your organisation operates transparently and has sufficient financial and administrative capacity. For support over € 10.000, a legal representative of the organisation is required.

Criteria

The project proposal will be judged on its relevance within a specific context and should fit into several of the following criteria:

it contributes to the infrastructure in the country/region in question: e.g. presentations, training, exchange, research and distribution with a national/regional outreach; is accessible to a broad group of artists;

  • high quality artistic policy;
  • response to contemporary society and/or interaction with (new) audiences;
  • international outreach; e.g. search for connection/interaction in the region or in Africa, Asia or Latin America and/or with Dutch art world. Connections should not be an aim in itself, but should happen as a necessity of the programme content.

Guidelines proposals

Artists initiatives can send in a project proposal which addresses at least the following issues:

  • relevance of the organisation or project in relation to the context;
  • general objectives of organisation and project;
  • description of the activity to be supported, expected output and outreach;
  • the project budget, the budget of the entire organisation and a funding plan;
  • logic relation between objectives, activity and results. The chosen methods and means, actors, strategic partners and audience are conform the same logic;
  • a result based project formulation including indicators.

Send your proposal to

Hivos
Att. of Juulke Brosky
j.brosky@hivos.nl
P.O. Box 85565
2508 CG DEN HAAG
The Netherlands
T + 31 (0)70 276 55 00

Deadline

The proposal should be handed in at least 4 months before the activities start. The Steering group of Arts Collaboratory meets 4 times a year to decide on project proposals.