Tips and opportunities in December 2024

Find your spot in a cultural incubator, apply for a scholarship or develop your skills with a seminar on contracts and VAT. Here are our tips and opportunities in December!

Open calls

Apply for a place at the cultural incubator Katapult - Haninge/Stockholm

Do you want support in starting up or developing your business? Katapult is an incubator with low thresholds that welcomes creative entrepreneurs. Through the incubator, you can get a co-working workplace, coaching, networking meetings, access to courses that strengthen you in grant applications, marketing or entrepreneurship – and more. Everything is free for the members of the incubator. Read more and apply to Katapult here.

Grant from Längmanska Kulturfonden

Do you have a dream project? Try applying for a grant to get the funds make it come true! Längmanska awards scholarships for projects in the humanities, natural sciences, art and literature as well as public education. Even you who are new to the field can apply for this scholarship. Granted amounts are usually in the order of SEK 10,000 – 50,000. Deadline January 15. Read more here!

Project grant from Stockholm County

Do you want to produce culture that the public can take part in? Or develop new methods, processes and collaborations? Then you can apply for Region Stockholm's project support for culture. Apply by 18 February 2025. You can submit your application here and read more about the grant and what the application must contain.

The Byggnads Culture Grant

Byggnads is the largest Swedish construction trade union. The union annually awards scholarships to professional cultural workers with a certain establishment in their field. In other words, this is a scholarship for you who have been active for at least a few years. Apply no later than March 31, 2025. Read more about the grant on Byggnad's website.

Artist Grants

Konstnärsnämnden, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, currently has open calls.

• International exchange and travel grants aim to support artists in creating, developing, and deepening international contacts. You can apply for funding to travel abroad for work residencies, exhibitions, or seminars. You can also apply to invite foreign artists to Sweden for shared work or exchange. Apply by 5th December at 14:00. Read more here!

Events and Courses

Welcome to Culture Breakfast in Boden - Boden/online

Which stages, exhibition spaces and accessible outdoor environments create a vibrant cultural life? What is available to cultural creators? And what conditions exist today and what needs to be developed for a growing cultural industry? You can hear more about this and more at North Creative Node's cultural breakfast in Boden on 11 December. Read more and register here. Those of you who cannot attend can instead watch the live broadcast from the cultural breakfast on North Creative Node's Facebook page.

STPLN’s Free Workshops for Freelancers – Malmö

Join new, short, and free workshops and lectures to improve your cultural entrepreneurship over a coffee. STPLN supports independent cultural and creative freelancers towards sustainable and creative entrepreneurship.

• Copyright & Contract 10 December, 13:00-16:00. Lecture and workshop with the lawyer Andreas Wendén, dealing with the basics of immaterial rights. The lecture will have a practical approach, with examples of what a creator should consider regarding rights and contracts.
• Applying for Funding & Project Budgets 28 January, 10:00-16:00. Financing a cultural project can turn well-crafted daydreams into tangible reality, but how do you proceed? How much time is it reasonable to spend on your application? Do you need to know what the project will lead to before you know if you will receive funding?

KRO's Seminar on VAT in the Field of Art – online

The Artists' Association of Sweden (Konstnärernas Riksorganisation, abbreviated KRO) often arranges free webinars for all visual and visual artists. No membership required! The webinars focus on practical knowledge that will help you develop your business. Advance registration is required and gives access to the material afterwards. On December 11 from 10 am to 1 pm, you are invited to learn more about how your business and your form of business affect which VAT rates you should use. Read more and register in advance with KRO!

Seminar on Visions in the North stage 2: on Sustainable Habitats in Norrbotten and Västerbotten – Stockholm and online

Visioner i Norr stage 2 is initiated by Rådet för hållbara städer (the Council for Sustainable Cities), the government's initiative for sustainable urban development. By inviting cultural and creative industries to work exploratively and innovatively with concrete societal challenges, long-term sustainable living environments can be created. Now the Council for Sustainable Cities invites you to a half-day seminar that takes place at ArkDes in Stockholm and that is broadcast live digitally. Welcome to take part in presentations, conversations and knowledge exchange! Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 12:30–17:00. Advance registration is required for both physical and digital participation. Limited number of seats.

Publicerat 4 December 2024