The Nordic Culture Fund launches Funding ‘Culture for a Changing World’, a two-volume publication series that reflects on the future of international cultural cooperation and the need to rethink funding models in a changing global context.
The series builds on the experiences and knowledge developed within Globus, the Fund’s thematic initiative running from 2020 to 2025. Conducted by Elena Polivtseva, Brussels-based independent researcher, policy expert and co-founder of Culture Policy Room, the publications bring together learning from Globus and place it in a broader European and international perspective.
Volume 1: Learning from the Globus Experiment provides a summary and assessment of Globus and examines how the Fund’s ambition to experiment with new forms of funding for cross-border cultural collaboration has played out in practice. The report explores the narratives and practices of global collaboration that emerge when cultural actors are given the agency to define them on their own terms.
Volume 2: Trends, Contexts, Pathways places the experiences from Globus in a wider European and international perspective. It examines key policy trends shaping cross-border cultural collaboration and identifies needs across the sector, while also presenting examples of innovative funding practices in Europe.
Both publications offer recommendations and forward-looking perspectives on how to develop more relevant, responsive and future-oriented funding models for cross-border cultural collaboration. The insights will also inform the Nordic Culture Fund’s future funding practices, partnerships and strategic role.
