Grants Overview 2012
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Grants overview 2012 1 2012 ECF GRANTS OVERVIEW Introduction ECF grants stimulate cultural collaboration, transnational explorations, artistic expression STEP Beyond Travel Grants and the mobility of artists and cultural actors. We support projects by individuals and organisations that have the potential to both capture and reflect on relevant European Between 3 December 2011 and 2 December 2012, we received 838 applications from realities, and bring these to the attention of the general public. artists and cultural operators from 49 countries. 239 applicants from 42 countries were awarded a STEP Beyond Travel Grant (a success rate of 28 %). A total of € 105,050 was In line with ECF’s mission and guiding principles we facilitate reflection and dissemination spent. of knowledge, and to this end ECF’s Grants and Digital Departments have been investing in designing and building the Grants Lab – an online space for cultural practitioners from In addition, five special grants have been awarded in the framework of the competition to Europe and beyond. Users can share information about their projects, get in touch with win a trip to ECF's Imagining Europe event in Amsterdam on 4-7 October 2012. These their peers from all over Europe and apply for ECF funding. In 2012, the first pilot of the grants covered travel and accommodation costs and per diems, and amounted to a total Grants Lab – the STEP Beyond Lab – was launched as the first publicly available ECF of € 4,625. Lab at http://www.ecflabs.org/grants/stepbeyond. Discretionary and Pro-active Grants Collaboration Grants In 2012, ECF awarded two discretionary grants of €20,000 and €15,000 respectively, and The 2012 budget for Collaboration Grants amounted to €300,000. Of this total, €299,830 three pro-active grants (related to ECF’s Imagining Europe event in October in was spent on grants. Amsterdam) amounting to a total of €23,200. There has been one Collaboration Grants round in 2012, with the deadline of 2 May. We received 420 applications. Of these, 281 applications were eligible – according to the technical criteria – and 27 proposals were pre-selected and sent to the advisers who selected 14 projects to receive a Collaboration Grant. The success rate (based on eligible applications) is thus 4.9%. Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture (BIFC) The 2012 budget for BIFC grants amounted to €245,200. Of this total, €244,838 was spent. 106 organisations applied for a BIFC grant and twelve projects were selected to receive support (a success rate of 11%). 2 2012 ECF GRANTS OVERVIEW Grant advisers in 2012 Collaboration Grants BIFC – Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture Grants André Akutsa Oliver Musovik Fundraising and Cooperation Project Manager, Association A.M.I., France Independent Artist and Curator and Deputy Regional Manager, Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans, Macedonia Rabiaâ Benlahbib Director, Kosmopolis (Den Haag), The Netherlands Haris Pasovic Director, East West Center Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Chrissie Faniadis Communications, Kulturbryggan, Sweden Ann Margret Hauknes Project Manager, Norwegian Centre of Expertise Tourism, Norway Petya Koleva Managing Director, Intercultura Consult, Bulgaria Laurens Runderkamp Senior Policy Officer, SICA/Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities, The Netherlands 3 2012 ECF COLLABORATION GRANTS Collaboration Grants 2012 1. Cultural Translations. Revisiting Footnotes (Latvia) 2. European Days in Belarus (Germany) 3. European Prospects: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent (UK) 4. Hard Facts (Slovenia) 5. Hi, you are making a film (HEH1P) (Spain) 6. New breath of culture: fill heritage with the life of arts (Ukraine) 7. multipli-Cities (UK) 8. Now wakes the sea (The Netherlands) 9. OuUnPo – A new Spring for Democracy? (Sweden) 10. P.I.G.S. (Greece) 11. Recreation Ground (Germany) 12. Social Error (Hungary) 13. We have a situation... (France) 14. Voice the Music (Macedonia) 4 2012 ECF COLLABORATION GRANTS 1. Cultural Translations. Revisiting Footnotes Organisation Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Latvia) ECF decided to support this project because Partners IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives (Ukraine), Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau [KSA:K] (Moldova) and it explicitly aims to strengthen the Drugo More (Croatia). collaboration between Eastern regions of Website http://www.lcca.lv/ Europe and strives to offer an ‘eastern’ Grant award € 25,000 view of recent history (as opposed to the traditionally better known ‘western’ cultural Summary scene). Because of this, it also fits well The project will bring together cultural institutions and artists from Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova and Croatia to create a platform for collaboration and to with ECF’s European Neighbourhood compile a glossary of shared terminology from these post-socialist contexts. The glossary will take the form of research-based ‘suitcase’ exhibitions, Programme. artistic interventions and also online or printed publications. It will attempt to review and rewrite contemporary cultural history and to add new pages to the existing version of common European cultural space. The project targets cultural institutions in former Soviet and Socialist countries, emphasising the connection between the “East-East” cultural scenes. 2. European Days in Belarus Organisation Kultur Aktiv (Germany) ECF decided to support this project because Partners Discussion and Analytical Society “Liberal Club” (Belarus), Valgevene Uus Tee (Estonia) and Oficina da Courela Associação it values the views of people who have been (Portugal). excluded from sharing their vision of Europe. Website http://www.kulturaktiv.org ECF also thinks it is daring to operate in a Grant award € 24,000 complex context by bringing together people who are eager to find a platform where they Summary can express themselves and exchange their The project European Days in Belarus aims to create a new artists’ network between Europe and Belarus through an exchange of art and artists. The views freely. target group for this project mainly consists of Belarusian artists, cultural managers and journalists, as well as others involved in the cultural sphere. Partner countries include Estonia, Portugal and Germany (and this list will ideally expand to more EU countries in future). In September 2012, seven artists from Belarus will partner with an artist from one of the project countries and they will take part in the European Cultural Days in Belarus event in the regional Belarusian towns of Vitebsk, Brest and Mogilev. Then all 14 artists will come together for a conference in Minsk with around 200 participants. Discussions about the present-day tendencies of European culture development and the role and place of Belarus will take place under the guidance of the organisers and participating artists. 5 2012 ECF COLLABORATION GRANTS 3. European Prospects: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent ECF decided to support this project because Organisation Ffotogallery Wales (UK) it looks at European citizenship through Partners Fotosommer Stuttgart e.V. (Germany), Lithuanian Photographers Association (Lithuania) and FAMU Film & TV School of Academy different lenses and aims to create a of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech Republic). laboratory for young talents to collaborate Website http://www.ffotogallery.org/ with their own peers. This approach fits well Grant award € 23,000 with ECF’s Youth & Media Programme. Summary European Prospects: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent uses photography and the visual arts to examine questions of identity and experience in an enlarged European Union involving key arts organisations in Wales, Germany, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Working collaboratively at all stages of the project, artists and cultural institutions will investigate the changing nature of European citizenship, and how our wider global outlook is mediated by trade, culture and technology. The project targets emerging artists from the four participating countries, audiences connected to the exhibition venues and cultural professionals from all parts of the EU. 4. Hard Facts Organisation Domestic Research Society (Slovenia) ECF decided to support this project with a Partners Samoupravna interesna zajednica (Croatia) and PENSART (Spain). research and development grant because Website http://www.hardfactsblog.wordpress.com/ although the idea of looking at ‘do-it-yourself’ Grant award € 10,000 history in Europe is valuable and the proposal radiated energy and enthusiasm, we felt the Summary organisers needed to invest in researching the This grant for research and development will be invested in developing the Hard Facts project, which aims to explore the difference between topic and to consider how they plan to realise media- or science-generated history and the history we have constructed ourselves throughout our lives. We all have a tendency to bring home the project in practice. souvenirs from the events we attend throughout our lives. Often these memories are synchronised with the common social or political significance of the events that are also reflected through the media coverage at the time. But there are cases when these events never enter history, or their significance is only realised at a later stage. Targeting people who do not usually follow contemporary art, Hard Facts will explore how we try to pin down our fluid lives and how we let the media upgrade the subjectively experienced events into historical ones. 6 2012 ECF COLLABORATION GRANTS 5. Hi, you