Funding and financing

Access to information about different kind of funding sources is an important issue for future development within the Barents region. Here is a collection to a wide range of funding sources, not only sources related to the Barents region.

The Programme Kolarctic ENPI CBC is one of the EU’s new ENPI financing instruments, which are going to be implemented on the EU’s external borders during the programme period 2007 – 2013. Kolarctic ENPI CBC  promotes cross-border co-operation on a programme area that includes the northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway and a large area of North-West Russia. The programme will be implemented by financing projects, by which organisations can develop their own activities with cross-border partners. The Regional Council of Lapland works as the administrative authority of Kolarctic ENPI CBC Programme.

Funding Guide for the Barents Euro-Arctic Region

EU funding

Nordic funding

 

  • NordForsk´s Call and Application Portal - For your access to:
    Applications in NordForsk Application Portal - overview over all created/submitted grant applications
    Grant applications under processing
    Reports - project reporting
    Expert assignments - grant applications sent out for expert assessment
    Newsletter - you can subscribe to different services
    My profile- update your contact information
  • Nordic Council of Ministers;
  • Nordic Innovation Centre (under the Nordic Council of Ministers)
  • Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) - is a risk capital institution financing environmental projects in Central and Eastern Europe. 
  • Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) -  finances investment projects and project exports, both in the Nordic area and outside the Nordic countries. Focal points of the Bank’s activities include the neighbouring regions to the Nordic area, with priority for investment and environmental loans for private sector projects and loans to national governments or with governmental guarantees in the in the Baltic states, Poland and Northwest Russia.
  • Nordic Project Fund (nopef) grants favorable loans to Nordic companies for their feasibility expenses for project export or internationalization projects which are located outside the EU and EFTA countries.
  • The Barents Secretariat  in Kirkenes is an important source for funding cooperation projects between Norway and Russia.

Research funding - see also above

 

Culture funding

  • AVEK  - The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture - AVEK uses its share of copyright remuneration to promote audiovisual culture cinema, video and television. The majority of the funds that AVEK uses originates from private copying levy eg. from blank video cassettes and blank DVDs.
  • CIMO  - administers scholarship and exchange programmes and is responsible for implementing nearly all EU education, training, culture and youth programmes at national level. CIMO also promotes and organises international trainee exchanges.
  • Eurimages , European Cinema support fund.
  • Filmpool Nord - Provides co-production financing for feature films, short films, documentaries and TV productions, as well as studio facilities, courses and training to meet the needs of the film industry, distribution of films to festivals, institutions and events, as well as special programmes for young filmmakers.
  • Finnish Cultural Foundation  - The Finnish Cultural Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation established in 1939 for the advancement of Finnish culture.
  • Finnish Film Foundation - SES  - Supports and develops Finnish film production, distribution and exhibition.
  • Finnish Fund for Art Exhange - FRAME - Provides an international exchange relating to the visual arts, by granting financial support to high-profile projects offering opportunities for Finnish artists to produce and exhibit their work abroad. Runs an artist-in-residence programme for Finnish artists to work abroad, a curator-in-residence programme for foreign curators to establish an understanding of the Finnish art scene, as well as a visitor programme for international curators and experts visiting Finland.
  • Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre - ESEK  - Function is to promote and support Finnish music performing in its various forms.
  • Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music (LUSES) - Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music supports Finnish musical creativity by awarding grants to aid professional creative work and its publicizing.
  • M.A.Castren Society - The M. A. Castrén Society was founded in Helsinki in 1990, to create and promote contacts between Finland and the Uralic-speaking peoples in Russia, to promote the knowledge of these peoples’ culture in Finland, and to support their cultural enterprises and the cultivation of their native languages.
  • Music Funds of Norway  - Music Funds aims mainly to promote and develop Norwegian music within all genres, granting project awards for concerts, tours and other projects. It commissions works from composers who either work in Norway or are Norwegian residents.
  • Nordic Film & TV Fund  - promote the production of audiovisual projects in the Nordic countries by participating in the financing of feature films, TV fiction, TVseries and creative documentaries.
  • Norwegian Film Association (NFF) - NFF  organises seminars and courses, represents the interest of its members both artistically and financially, gives legal advice on film production in general, promotes film and knowledge on film production to the public and distributes various funds and scholarships.
  • Office for contemporary art Norway - OCA  - provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects including Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers.
  • Ornamo Foundation - The aim of the foundation is to support and promote the work of members of Ornamo in the fields of Finnish craft art, industrial design, interior architecture, clothing design, textile art and the design of our immediate surroundings and to make their achievements widely known.
  • SLEIPNIR  - is the Nordic Council of Ministers’ travel grant program for young professional practitioners of the arts in the Nordic countries. Sleipnir covers all the arts: theatre, dance, visual art, design, architecture, music, film, literature.
  • Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation - promotes cultural links between these countries by supporting endeavours, in the form of subsidies out of the interest from the Foundations capital, to increase knowledge about, and contacts between, the culture, economic life and people of both countries.

 World Bank

  • The "World Bank" is the name that has come to be used for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). Together these organizations provide low-interest loans, interest-free credit, and grants to developing countries.
  • The World Bank Group. In addition to IBRD and IDA, three other organizations make up the World Bank Group. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes private sector investment by supporting high-risk sectors and countries. The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) provides political risk insurance (guarantees) to investors in and lenders to developing countries. And the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) settles investment disputes between foreign investors and their host countries.

 

 

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