The Nordic Information on Gender is offering the Nordic LGBTI Fund to stimulate Nordic co-operation in the LGBTI area within the framework of the Nordic Co-operation Programme on Gender Equality, including its supplement Equal rights, treatment and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic region.
Funding Information
The amount applied for should be between DKK 50,000 and DKK 500,000.
Nordic Benefit
Nordic benefit means the extent to which the project:
Generates significant positive effects through Nordic cooperation, compared to the project having been implemented at the national/bilateral or other transnational level
Manifests and develops Nordic cohesion, both within and outside the region
Contributes to infrastructure that strengthens Nordic co-operation for equal rights, treatment and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic countries.
Responds in a constructive way to the challenges of Nordic co-operation such as national barriers and differences.
Here, the assessment will be based on how well the application:
Justifies why the project should be implemented as Nordic co-operation
Describes the added value and the challenges that the co-operating parties perceive in working together across country borders.
Contribution to the work to ensure equal rights, treatment and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic countries
This means the degree to which the project:
Aims to confront the problems and obstacles that are limiting equal rights, treatment and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic countries.
Contributes to new/changes in, and/or sharing of experience concerning knowledge, working methods and models about/for equal rights, treatment and opportunities for LGBTI people in the Nordic countries.
Helps to respond to the challenges identified in the strategic supplement to the Nordic Co-Operation Programme on Gender Equality.
Requirements on Activities and Beneficiaries
The following activities may be funded:
Staging of Nordic gatherings/meetings
Knowledge production
Network-building
Business development
The participation of volunteer organisations in Nordic or international conferences/courses/meetings/gatherings.
The Nordic LGBTI Fund addresses a broad target group and calls for proposals are open to a variety of activities and organisations including:
Voluntary, not-for-profit or stakeholder organisation
Networks
Government agencies and other public sector activities
researchers and research groups
Other non-commercial actors
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Each project must involve at least the three Nordic countries, where the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Aaland Islands may constitute one of these only. In addition, funding may be granted to activities involving co-operation in the neighbouring regions, i.e. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and north-west Russia, where at least two Nordic countries are participating. The principal applicant should come from a Nordic country or the Faroe Islands, Greenland or the Aaland Islands.
Limitations
Funding will not be granted for:
Activities already financed wholly or partly by the Nordic Council of Ministers for Gender Equality and LGBTI or the other sectors of the Nordic Council of Ministers
Activities that submit a budget in a currency other than DKK
Applications submitted after the deadline
Activities that submit an incomplete application
Political party organisations
Private individuals
Activities whose purpose is to generate a profit or equivalent for the funding beneficiary.
