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Kulturanalys Norden 2025:1
Nordic funding for the arts and culture:
A multilevel approach
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Nordic funding for the arts and culture: A multilevel approach
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Preface
Contributing authors
1. Introduction: A multilevel approach to public funding for the arts and culture
1.1 Funding systems at different levels of governance
1.2 To make a multilevel approach possible: methodological remarks
1.3 Conclusions: integrated or parallel funding systems?
References
2. Nordic funding: Nordic Culture Point and the Nordic Culture Fund
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Points of departure
2.3 Data
2.4 The cases: Nordic Culture Point and the Nordic Culture Fund
2.5 Statistical results
2.6 Summary and discussion
References
3. The interplay between Nordic and national funding for arts and culture in Denmark
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The national context
3.3 The interplay between Nordic funding programmes and Danish national funding
3.4 Conclusion
References
Appendix, chapter 3
4. The role of Nordic funding in promoting internationalisation: The case of independent artistic and cultural actors in Finland
4.1 National sources of funding for culture in Finland
4.2 Funding for internationalisation
4.4 Private foundations
4.5 The Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point
4.6 Nordic funding adds an important layer but no coordination to the scattered funding of internationalisation
References:
Appendix, chapter 4
5. Cultural project funding across geographic levels in Iceland: Exploring the overlap between Nordic and Icelandic cultural funds
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methodology
5.3 Icelandic Cultural Funding System
5.4 Interplay between Nordic and Icelandic Funding Systems
5.5 Conclusions
References
6. Coherence or incoherence in multilevel funding for independent artistic and cultural actors: The case of Norway
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Support for arts and culture in Norway
6.3 Nordic funds and the interplay between national and Nordic funds
6.4 Discussion
References
7. Nordic public funding for independent arts and culture: a comparison with Sweden and the European Union
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Swedish cultural policy in brief
7.3 The Independent arts and cultural field professionals
7.4 National funding of independent arts and culture in Sweden
7.5 Few foundation and lottery funds available for culture
7.6 Nordic funding of independent arts and culture
7.7 European Union funding for arts and culture in Sweden
7.8 Comparison across funding levels
7.9 Conclusion
References