CULTURE IN MOTION: Funding for Artistic Collaboration Through EEA & Norway Grants

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How does an artist in Bucharest end up co-producing with a partner in Oslo — and who pays for the travel, the rehearsal time, and the risk? This special session opens up one of the most significant cross-border funding mechanisms in European culture: the EEA and 

Norway Grants, through which Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway support cultural cooperation, heritage, and creative entrepreneurship across partner countries. Two Donor Programme Partners — from Norway’s Directorate for Cultural Heritage and from Arts and Culture Norway — present what is fundable, how partnerships are built, and how to move from an idea to a supported collaboration.

Beyond the mechanics, the conversation turns to why this kind of funding matters now. As budgets tighten and the sector fragments, the Grants are framed around cooperation, resilience, and innovation — bilateral relationships that outlast a single project, organizations strong enough to survive instability, and new models for making and sharing work across borders. The session is practical: what the priorities are, what makes an application credible, where applicants most often go wrong, and how a Romanian–Norwegian artistic partnership can become a durable creative bridge rather than a one-off grant line.

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PRESENTERS

Senior Advisor, Arts and Culture Norway (Kulturdirektoratet), Norway

Senior Advisor, Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren), Norway

Moderated by Bogdan Trîmbaciu, Director, Project Management Unit, Ministry of Culture of Romania.

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Event in English, with translation into Romanian
Duration: 1h