International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes

For whom

Cultural heritage institutions from the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that want to collaborate with foreign heritage institutions in research projects in joint areas of collection.

The Mondriaan Fund offers International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes grants to stimulate and improve the visibility of research and new insights in the cultural heritage field. Such grants are to support projects in which Dutch and international heritage institutions collaborate in internationally significant fields covered by both of their collections.

For what

For Dutch cultural heritage institutions to collaborate with foreign cultural heritage institutions in research projects in fields covered by both of their collections. The grant may also be requested for the development phase of the project, for example to pay for the travel and accommodation expenses incurred by researchers and curators, and towards the costs of presenting the study results in the Netherlands.

The objective is to promote new insights, research and international collaborations in the field of cultural heritage whose importance will draw international attention and which will result in a presentation.

How much

The amount of the grant will be determined per application.

Apply

Applications for a grant for International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes can be submitted twice each year, using the Mondriaan Fund online application system. Deadlines for the submission in 2025 are: 22 May and 4 September, 4 P.M. (Dutch time zone) / 10 A.M. (Caribbean time zone). You first apply through the website for an account with the Mondriaan Fund, which you need in order to apply. When determining your dates, keep in mind that the processing of your application will take 3 months after the deadline. A grant cannot be awarded retroactively.

Conditions

• Grant applications may be submitted by Dutch institutions managing cultural heritage of national significance.
• In order to be eligible, such a Dutch institution must have entered into a partnership with similar cultural heritage institutions abroad.
• The proposed research project must be shown off by both the Dutch institution and its international partner/s.
• The applicant will make a significant financial contribution to the acquisition of the object itself. The grant application is more likely to be successful if the applicant has raised some funds itself by means of a crowd-funding campaign, e.g. through voordekunst.nl.
• The foreign partner’s or partners’ share of the project costs must be in acceptable proportion to the grant awarded by the Mondriaan Fund.

Assessment

All applications which satisfy all the formal requirements and which come with all the requested annexes will be presented to a committee which will issue a recommendation on the award of the Grant for International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes.

A Grant for International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes can only be awarded if the advisory committee issues a positive recommendation on the aforementioned interrelated criteria. Such a positive recommendation may come with a recommendation on the sum to be awarded as a grant and the term for which it will be awarded.

Due to budgetary restrictions, we are unfortunately not always able to award grants to all applications that receive positive advisories from the committee. In this case, the Mondriaan Fund Board asks the advisory committee to prioritise the positive advisories. This means that an application may receive a positive advisory, but a grant is nevertheless not awarded.

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