Cultural education for the Dutch Caribbean part of the Kingdom 2025-2028: Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten
For whom?
- Cultural institutions, and
- Self-employed professionals with at least two years’ experience in the field of cultural education based on Curaçao, Aruba or Sint Maarten can apply for grants.
The application should always be intended for collaboration between the applicant and one or more schools. The applicant and schools must be based on the same island.
For what?
Exploratory Activities
We support exploratory activities into collaboration between a cultural institution or professional and one or more schools. These involve activities such as meetings, developing plans, promoting expertise, agreeing arrangements on aspects such as content, allocation of tasks and funding and testing of activities. The exploratory activity focuses on cultural education for the pupils at the schools.
Projects
We support the development and implementation of cultural education projects through collaboration between a cultural institution or professional and one or more schools. This involves activities such as (further) developing, preparing, implementing and evaluating the cultural education project. The basis for the project is the demand from the school or schools. The project focuses on cultural education for the pupils at the schools.
Grants are also available for educational projects that focus on digital content creation (born-digital art) or in which digital technology is an instrument in the cultural education process (e.g. working with AI).
How much?
Exploratory Activities
€5,000 – €15,000 – The project lasts a minimum of two months and maximum of one year. The project starts no earlier than eight weeks after the application is submitted. The project starts within six months of the grant being awarded.
Projects
€15,000 – €50,000 – The project lasts a minimum of two months and maximum of two years. The project starts no earlier than eight weeks after the application is submitted (thirteen weeks for projects over €25,000). The project starts within six months of the grant being awarded.
We fund 100% of the total project costs.
How and when to apply?
Applications can be submitted between 2 June 2025 and 9 December 2026.
Good to know
- Cultural education also includes cultural heritage education. The application may include international collaboration if this will enhance local collaboration.
- As a fund, our focus is on the impact and effects that can be achieved through the projects. The intended effects vary according to the individual grant scheme. In your application, please explain how you will achieve these effects and how you will ensure that your target group benefits from them. The grant scheme describes what we mean by these effects.
- Exploratory Activities: you work on the effects ‘cooperation’ and ‘equal opportunities’
- Projects: you work on the effects ‘creative development’, ‘connection’ and ‘equal opportunities’
Terms and conditions
- You apply the three cultural codes as described in article 1.6 of the grant scheme.
- Within both Exploratory Activities and Projects, grants will be awarded to a maximum of two applications per applicant.
- Applications will be processed in the order they are received until the budget has been used up. We therefore recommend you start the process in good time; do not wait too long to submit your application.
More information about the conditions, assessment criteria and the information we need to process your application can be found via the button below on the Cultural Participation Fund website. This information is available in Dutch only.
Questions & contact
Do you have any questions about this grant or is something not entirely clear? Please contact the contact person on this page.
