Individual
What is meant by a professional interdisciplinary practice?
For the Interdisciplinary Individual grant, a professional interdisciplinary practice means that the artist is artistically active in multiple cultural disciplines and, in that capacity, is embedded in the Netherlands and/or Caribbean part of the Kingdom. It is important that the practice combines disciplines that fall within the scope of different national cultural funds, for example by combining the performing arts and visual art, literature and digital culture, or film and architecture.
The grant is not intended for practices combining disciplines or media that fall within the scope of a single national cultural fund. Examples include a practice combining architecture and digital culture (both disciplines fall within the remit of the Creative Industries Fund NL) or a practice combining singing and dance (both fall within the remit of the Performing Arts Fund NL). Nor is the grant intended for practices that combine a cultural discipline with another domain, such as healthcare or science, rather than combining different cultural disciplines.
Which grants are comparable and cannot be combined with the Interdisciplinary Grant?
You cannot apply for the Interdisciplinary Individual grant while receiving other financial support from a national cultural fund that covers the same costs. This applies, for example, to the Mondriaan Fund’s Artist Start and Artist Basic grants and to the Creative Industries Fund NL’s Talent Development grant. If you are awarded an Interdisciplinary Individual contribution, you may not apply for a comparable contribution from any of the national cultural funds for the same period.
If my application for the Interdisciplinary grant is rejected, does this affect other applications to the national cultural funds?
If your application is rejected, you may not submit another application for the Interdisciplinary Individual grant for a period of 12 months. However, this does not apply to other grants offered by the national cultural funds: you can still apply for these if your application for the Interdisciplinary Individual grant is rejected.
Does a recent rejection of an application for another grant, such as Artist Start, affect an application for the Interdisciplinary Individual Grant?
A previous negative recommendation under another grant does not affect an application for the Interdisciplinary Individual grant
Can I use an Interdisciplinary Individual contribution for research or a project?
The Interdisciplinary Individual contribution is a development grant intended to support interdisciplinary makers in developing their practice. Although it is not a project grant, research or a project may form part of the plan submitted with your application.
Organisation
What is meant by an interdisciplinary project?
In the context of the Interdisciplinary Organisation grant, an interdisciplinary project is one in which different cultural disciplines are integrated, rather than simply placed side by side. It involves the integration, cross-pollination or fusion of at least two artistic disciplines in a single work, such as an artwork, performance, publication or film. The aim of the grant is to support projects that do not fit, or do not fit in their entirety, within another grant offered by one of the national cultural funds. It is also important that the project reaches an audience, is performed for or shown to an audience, or can be visited by an audience..
Can an organisation apply for the grant if it is already receiving multi-year funding from a national cultural fund or is part of the Basic Cultural Infrastructure (BIS) in 2025–2028?
Yes, provided that the project for which the application is being submitted is not part of the programme for which the multi-year funding was awarded.
Can an organisation apply for another grant from a national cultural fund for the same project?
If an Interdisciplinary Organisation contribution is awarded for a project, the organisation may not apply for additional funding for the same project under another grant offered by one of the national cultural funds.
If an application for a project was previously rejected under another grant offered by one of the national cultural funds, is it still possible to apply for the Interdisciplinary Grant for the same project?
Yes. However, please bear in mind that projects that fall entirely within the scope of another grant offered by one of the national cultural funds are not eligible for the Interdisciplinary grant. If a previous application for the entire project was accepted for assessment under another grant offered by one of the national cultural funds, it may be concluded that the project is therefore not eligible for an Interdisciplinary contribution. Exceptions are grants involving collaboration between national cultural funds that enable interdisciplinary projects, such as Immerse\Interact and De (Korte) Verbeelding.
Are there guidelines regarding what the contribution can be spent on?
Yes, an explanation of the budget and the eligible costs for the Interdisciplinary Organisation grant are available on this page.
The grant provides a fixed contribution based on the total budget. Is there a maximum percentage of the total budget that the contribution may cover?
No maximum percentage applies.
How does this grant differ from, for example, the Immerse/Interact grant offered by Creative Industries Fund NL and the Netherlands Film Fund?
The national cultural funds have already established a number of collaborations that facilitate crossovers between disciplines, such as Immerse\Interact, De Verbeelding and Upstream: Music x Design. The Interdisciplinary Grant complements these collaborations and is the first grant in which all the national cultural funds work together. This means that applications can be submitted for interdisciplinary projects involving any of the disciplines that fall within the scope of the various national cultural funds.