Approved funding

The Baltic Circus Union unites and empowers Baltic circus artists through an artist-led network. It advocates for fair wages, legal protections, and sustainable working conditions while ensuring artists shape industry decisions. Through information sharing, meetings, policy development, & community-building, the network fosters artistic, economic, and environmental sustainability. A key goal is creating a unified communication structure for collective representation locally and internationally.

We are seeking funding to initiate and develop the Nordic BIPOC Network designed to foster greater collaboration, mentorship and support for BIPOC (Black,Indigenous,and People of Color) artists within the Nordic region.The project responds to the pressing need to increase diversity,equity,and inclusion in the Nordic arts sector.It focuses specifically on artists from Afro-diasporic backgrounds and the Global South,who often face unique challenges navigating predominantly white cultural spaces.

The Nordic Network for Transnational Craft Perspectives is a new network with a special focus on Romani handicraft in the Nordic region. Through a series of joint meetings and/or workshops in Norway, Sweden and Finland, the main objective of the network is to exchange knowledge and ideas, build and strengthen networks and collaborations and to strengthen the position of Romani handicrafts.

The aim is to connect the Nordic and Baltic Architecture institutional platforms operating in Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Vilnius and Helsinki to map out the latent financial, ecological, and conceptual possibilities in the inter-institutional space. The goal is to reinforce conditions that recognize art and architecture as inherently slow processes and acknowledge their role in fostering long-term innovation by resisting the high-speed demands of political and economic forces.

The network’s objective is to form a collective platform exploring Nordic colonial legacies and public engagement through augmented reality in smaller towns and rural areas. By convening artists, curators and researchers, we will explore the potential of augmented reality interventions led by local artists, that reimagine public spaces as a tapestry of dialogue across time and space, where physical sites and digital spaces reveal hidden histories, illuminating stories often overlooked or erased.

Performing Landscapes Nordic-Baltic is a network focusing on artistic and cultural practice in the context of an ecological crisis. The 24 partners are located in 24 different locations around the Baltic Sea, by a variety of ecologically critical places: landscapes - remote and urbanized. The network is interdisciplinary, and process-driven with local partners working on the interface between art and ecology, with residencies, artistic interventions, programs, festivals and research institutes.

The project aims to establish a visionary network of Baltic-Nordic artists advancing sustainable art practices through symbiosis-based methods and ‘climatic imagination.’ As a result of hybrid meetings and modular workshops, a blueprint for an immersive XR/AR platform will be developed, showcasing innovative ‘naturally-artificial’ artworks. This initiative will lay the groundwork for a long-term network, tracing greener routes for Baltic-Nordic exchange, with a transformative global impact.

The Baltic Cultural Centers Network "The Power of Culture" aims to unite the cultural center associations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to strengthen cultural workers' competencies, encourage knowledge exchange, and enhance resilience to crisis in the field of security. Activities will include remote and live sessions, artist shows, power principles of cultural psychology, critical thinking, operation of artificial intelligence development. It involves over 1000 organizations.