enter programme for collaboration with a nordic focus

ENTER is designed to create space for ideas that needs to be explored, tested or developed together with others. The programme is for those who need the meeting of different experiences, disciplines, places or perspectives to take an idea further.

ENTER stems from our ambition to bring arts and culture into play as a driving force that opens new perspectives, challenges established ways of thinking and contribute to shaping the future of the Nordic region. To do this requires room for experimentation, spaces to test your ideas and see them take shape through encounters with others.

ENTER therefore offers the opportunity to explore an idea, method or way of working before its form, outcome or next step is entirely clear. What matters is not that you already have all the answers, but that there is something meaningful to explore, develop or learn together.

We are looking for initiatives that can apply and bring together different experiences, geographies and practices, and which have the courage to challenge established ways of working, and which you, we as a Fund, and others can learn from.

To be eligible for funding through ENTER, your initiative must have a Nordic anchoring* and be built on collaboration across borders. Arts and culture must be a significant part of the initiative, but we also encourage collaborations with other sectors, practices and areas of society.

*We do not have a fixed definition of what constitutes ‘a nordic anchoring’. It may be expressed through the types of collaborations, themes or perspectives that shape your initiative, but it may also take other forms. We remain open to your interpretation; the important thing is that you can explain what the Nordic foundation of your initiative is and why it is relevant.