On Thursday 26th of June 2025 we held a Coffee Morning on the new Northern European Mobility Opportunity. We were joined by Søren Merrild Staun from Nordic Culture Fund will provided an overview of the fund, and answered some of your questions.
The Nordic Culture Fund, in partnership with the arts funding agencies of Ireland, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales recently announced the first Northern European Mobility Opportunity (NEMO) mobility fund. The funding call will open in August 2025 and support artistic exchange and collaboration for practitioners across the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland.
The Nordic countries, the UK and Ireland constitute a shared international space with fertile ground for creative collaborations. Working across the region has become more difficult with increased costs and new barriers to mobility restricting international collaboration. The focus of the Call is on individual arts practitioners in the initial years of their careers, acknowledging that this group has a particular need for opportunity and investment in the current climate.
The programme aims to foster international collaboration, develop artistic networks across the region and encourage more arts practitioners to work confidently with international partners. The need for unity, cooperation and mutual understanding between neighbours is now more urgent than at any time this century.
The Nordic Culture Fund will administer the open call. Applications can be made by artists in the UK and Ireland to engage with counterparts in the Nordic Countries (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Åland Islands), and vice versa, with awards of up to EUR9,000 each from a total budget of approximately EUR 300,000.
You can find out more about the fund and read the guidelines here.
Here is the recording from the session: