Guidelines & Eligibility
Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change
1. Eligible Candidates
Support is only given to individual persons from, living, registered and working in our working countries, you can find the full list of eligible countries here.
This mentorship programme is specifically meant for individuals with ±8-15 years of relevant professional experience, individuals who do not have this level of experience are not eligible to participate in the programme.
The Goethe-Institut and Prince Claus Fund hold a broad disciplinary understanding of arts and culture. By artists and cultural practitioners we mean people who have an individual artistic practice – be it as a visual artist, curator, writer, musician, performer, designer, architect, interdisciplinary artist, etc. Individuals who are arts managers, facilitators, academic researchers, or others, without an individual artistic practice are not considered to fall under this category, and as such are not eligible to apply.
Previous grantees of the Prince Claus Fund are not eligible to apply unless their previous grant is finished and closed before the application submission deadline for this call.
2. Eligible Expenses
This award is not restricted to a pre-decided budget, but must be used for the development of the concept outlined in their application. Participants are expected to actively participate in all aspects of the mentorship programme, and be available for all scheduled meetings, travels and communications. Continued support is dependent on this active participation. The Prince Claus Fund will communicate the given expectations in a timely manner.
The Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut cover the costs related to the mentorship programme itself, including travel expenses, visa costs and stay. Individuals are responsible for their own travel insurance. Further details on the covered expenses are communicated with successful applicants at a later date.
4. Eligible Applications
Only complete submissions from eligible candidates and received in the platform before the deadline can be considered.
5. How to Apply
You can apply for this opportunity through our online application system. The application includes a cover page with basic questions and information, concept outline of work to be developed within the mentorship, portfolio of previous work, and an open format motivation (audio, video, written).
*Please note that due to the nature of the programme we can only accept applications in the English language.
To apply you need to:
Create an account on the Prince Claus Awards Platform and start a new submission for the Prince Claus Mentorship Award: Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change;
Fill in all required fields and attachments. You can save the application and complete it later up until the deadline. If you have any questions along the way, please refer to our FAQ or e-mail us at [email protected]
The deadline for applications is 30 April 2023 23:59 CEST. We understand that many people have intermittent access to the internet, or unstable connections, but please keep this in mind when planning your submission. We encourage you not to wait until the last minute with submitting as our online system will close automatically on the deadline and we cannot accept any applications after that point;
All applicants will receive an email confirmation once their submission has been successfully received in the Prince Claus Awards Platform.
5. Notification of decision
All applicants will be notified on the outcome of their application by the Prince Claus Fund by December 2023 at the very latest.
6. Contracts
The Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut will draft a contract to be signed by the successful award recipients. The contract will include contract start and end dates, award amount, reporting requirements, regulations of participation, programme schedule, general provisions, implementation etc.
EVALUATION PROCESS
This Call for Applications aims to ensure that individuals are selected in a transparent and fair manner, according to clear criteria and a rigorous selection process where due consideration is given to all proposals that meet our eligibility requirements. The process is as follows:
Phase 1: Intake and Evaluation of Applications
The Programme Committee of the Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut evaluate all eligible applications according to the assessment criteria outlined below, and select a short-list of most eligible applications for further consideration. The short-listed candidates might be asked follow-up questions.
Phase 2: Decision Making
The short-listed applications are assessed by a group of international external advisors, who are experts in the intersection of the arts and environmentalism. Additionally, the programme mentors are asked to review all shortlisted applications and the applicants’ references are approached.
Based on the outcomes of the external assessments, the Programme Committee make a final selection of award recipients. In the selection special attention is paid to diversity, geographical spread, focus of work, level of engagement with the subject matter, and quality of practice.
All applicants are informed of the outcome of their application by December 2023 at the very latest.
Phase 3: Reporting, Evaluation and Communications
Once approved, successful applicants are notified about the award and participation in the programme. A contract is drafted and signed by the applicant and the Prince Claus Fund. The grantees are announced on the Goethe-Institut and Prince Claus Fund’s websites.
Active participation in the programme, timely reporting and consistent communication are preconditions for continued support.
After completion, the mentorship and the degree to which the objectives have been fulfilled are evaluated and documented. The Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut will communicate about participants’ work through their websites and within their networks.
Criteria for selection of applications
The following criteria are used for assessing applications:
- Original: the work is innovative and artistically interesting
- Transformative: the work engages with pressing social/political issues, is challenging, prompts feelings, and is thought provoking
- Context-specific: important in the local context, contributes to the enhancement of the context, rethinking history, societal impact
- Inclusive: the work is linked to the ultimate aim of more inclusive societies, connecting people in ways that resist marginalisation, oppression and division
- Impactful: award will make a real difference to the professional development, engagement and impact of the individual's practice in the context
- Diversity: the individual and their work represents minority groups and marginalised communities within their context.
- Potential to Accelerate: The individual has the potential to become a leader in the discipline and already has an existing track record within the cultural discipline, the work is engaged and focused on relevant social issues within context, on average 8-15 years of career
