Approved funding

A durable, artist-led Nordic-Baltic support structure for women artists in disadvantaged positions, including immigrants and minorities. Hubs in Helsinki, Tallinn and Riga build local communities and connect across the region. Three two-day meetings with public workshops and curator consultations compare working conditions in the three countries and produce an open methodological guide for other networks. A joint exhibition is developed as an idea to realise after the grant period.

The Nordic Inclusive Dance Network connects established inclusive dance organisations in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark to strengthen the professional infrastructure of the field. Through artistic exchange, peer learning and shared resources, the network addresses unequal access to training, employment, mobility and visibility for dance artists with disabilities across the Nordic region.

The Nordic Drag King Network is a collaborative initiative to strengthen and promote the Nordic professional drag king scene. Spanning Sweden, Norway, and Finland, inviting artists from other Nordic countries, NDKN will create an online artist gallery and three major meetings, featuring peer-to-peer workshops, seminars, and a public live showcase. NDKN will promote artistic development and increase visibility, community, and audience engagement around this under-represented art form.

FAIRE, SWAN and LOORE will bring together our experience of supporting artists at risk and the residency organisers who host them across Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Much of this work is delivered with reduced funding and shrinking staff capacity, making specialist knowledge hard to retain and share. The network creates space to learn from each other and external experts, around mental health, advocacy and long-term support for artists who now call the Nordic-Baltic region their home.

This project builds a Nordic network connecting artists, scientists and cultural and research organisations across Finland, Sweden and Denmark, using the European Spallation Source in Lund as its first shared case. Through online exchange and 2–3 participatory World Café events, the network will develop relationships, test and independently evaluate shared working methods, and produce a framework for future artist residencies and long-term collaboration between art and large-scale research.

The objective of this collaborative network is to plan artistic initiatives, explore sustainable working practices, and develop tools for clown play, with particular emphasis on clown play before, during, and after medical procedures for children and young people in hospitals in Norway, Latvia and Finland. This project will be a starting point for examining similarities and differences in working practices across borders, bringing together expertise and perspectives.

AYAA responds to the urgent need to strengthen democratic structures for young nordic/baltic citizens. We do that by developing sustainable structures in our organisations for young agency, and learn from the field of citizen dialogue. Building on our knowledge of young-centered projects, AYAA addresses the real need to go further than “symbolic participation", acknowledging the challenges the field is facing, and taking further steps to develop long-term capacity to harbour young influence.

The network brings together self-organised and volunteer-led DIY cultural spaces across the Nordic-Baltic region to exchange practical knowledge, compare local conditions and build useful ties. We explore ways to remain sustainable without losing our independence or character, begin mapping the wider DIY field around the Baltic Sea and consider forms of future cooperation, including regional networks, joint events, fundraising and possible NCP long-term network funding.

This network unites cultural intermediaries—the bridge-builders connecting artists, authorities, businesses, and communities—across the Nordic-Baltic region. Through online laboratories, peer exchange, and collaborative knowledge-building, we will strengthen intermediary practice, create a regional community of practice, and develop evidence-based policy recommendations.

Since 2024, 24 Nordic-Baltic dance venues and festivals have built an informal platform for dialogue and exchange. This collaboration revealed an urgent gap: without early knowledge of dance artists’ projects, we lose the chance to pool resources, co-produce, and ensure sustained visibility and touring across the region. With no stable co-production structures, NBDN want to now move from talk to action by building shared, open, and scalable infrastructure for the dance field.

The network is dedicated to nurturing queer interdisciplinary performance practice across borders. Partners will develop collective tools and strategies for supporting marginalised practices through co-learning programmes focused on sustaining queer practice, community, public space and legacy. The network seeks to enable transformational exchange, improving opportunities for artists and organisations to directly influence each other’s contexts, methodologies, and futures and create change.

The main objective of the network is to thoroughly explore and define the concept of the “library as a third place” in a general sense, while using the Nordic–Baltic region as a platform for exchanging experiences, sharing practical knowledge, and discussing opportunities for applying the concept locally. The network aims to foster dialogue, peer learning, reflection, and joint consideration of inclusive, community-oriented library practices and strategies.

The aim of the network is to strengthen the capacity for music creators in the northern region to engage internationally from a position of cultural strength, solidarity and shared responsibility. Through exchange between the Baltics, the Nordics and Scotland, the network will respond to current challenges impacting the working conditions and well-being of composers and sound artists; creating collective approaches to mobility, international visibility, and sustainable artistic practice.

This network connects alternative, place-based learning institutions in Finland, Iceland, and Lithuania that facilitate cross-disciplinary environments for artists, researchers, and knowledge practitioners working in art, ecology, and education. Through joint meetings, pedagogical exchange, and public dialogue, the network explores how context-specific learning practices in rural and peripheral areas contribute to resilient cultural and educational infrastructures in the Nordic–Baltic region.

ART AS REFUGE builds a Nordic-Baltic cooperation network that treats art as a refuge - a shared language for dialogue, care, and advocacy in a complex geopolitical and migration context. Connecting organisations working with refugees, migrants, and vulnerable communities through arts and cultural practices, the network strengthens ethical, long-term collaboration and joint advocacy capacity, and lays the foundation for a shared Nordic–Baltic Refugee Week beyond the funded period.

The Nordic Accessible Music Network builds a Nordic–Baltic professional network that strengthens conditions for disabled musicians and artists to work on equal terms in the music field. By connecting disability-led and allied organisations, we share contacts, methods and good practice, reduce reliance on key individuals, and create sustainable infrastructure. The network combines monthly digital meetings with at least one physical gathering and a shared online resource hub.