Deadline: 03-Oct-2021
Name of donor : Swiss Arts Council
Amount of the grant : 10,000 $ to 100,000 $
Category: Grant
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The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is launching a new "To-gather" call for international collaboration to support the development and testing of new frameworks and methodologies for working internationally.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate across the international arts sector, limiting mobility and opportunities for international collaboration and revealing the very precarious realities of many arts practitioners, cultural organisations and institutions. The pandemic has also highlighted the prevailing structural inequalities that continue to shape much of the arts and cultural landscape around the world.
The "To-gather" call for international collaboration supports 2-3 year collaborations between arts practitioners, cultural organisations and institutions in Switzerland and their counterparts in the regions of Pro Helvetia's liaison offices. The call aims to support critical reflection on the current situation, to share ideas towards more egalitarian forms of exchange between cultural ecosystems and across contexts, and to experiment with new collaboration formats.
This call for projects is deliberately broad, taking into account the unique challenges of different regions and disciplines. "To-gather" aims to support new or ongoing long-term international collaborative projects and encompasses all disciplines supported by Pro Helvetia: design, interactive media, literature, music, performing arts, visual arts and architecture as well as projects that combine several disciplines both within and beyond the arts. Digital formats are just as welcome as analogue ones. Projects can include both small and large groups of partners.
Goals
Le funding is intended for projects with the following objectives:
- To encourage artistic collaborations with a long-term vision between Switzerland and one or more regions covered by Pro Helvetia's international network of liaison offices.
- Maintain existing professional networks AND develop new professional networks during and beyond the pandemic.
- To reflect on and develop new models of collaboration between artists, and between artists and organisations, towards a more egalitarian and sustainable practice - both locally and globally.
Information on financing
The maximum total grant per project is CHF 50,000.
Financing conditions
- All the partners must invest according to their capacities (financial, space, programming, accommodation, catering, network, visibility, advice, etc.) These investments must be declared and explained.
- Applicants may charge reasonable administrative, management and overhead costs to a project.
- The costs of building new physical infrastructure will not be covered.
Criteria
- Applications must cover activities over a period of 2 to 3 years, and must take place between 2022 and 2024, or until 2025 for three-year projects.
- Proposals must be complete at the time of submission and define all partners.
- All projects must include partners (artists, organisations, collectives, platforms, etc.) in Switzerland and at least one liaison office context.
- Applications involving several partners in the regions of the liaison offices are possible and encouraged.
- All partners must have several years' experience in their field and must demonstrate in their application a genuine interest in testing new avenues for future international collaboration.
- Projects that are part of a school or university curriculum/basic training, or a programme are not eligible.
For more information, please visit Swiss Arts Council .
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