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Sign up for an information sessionWith this subsidy scheme, we stimulate the development and strengthening of cultural education at schools in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom: Curaçao, Aruba, and Sint Maarten. The subsidy is for projects that contribute to more and better cultural education for schools in primary and (secondary) specialized education.
Who can apply for a subsidy?
Subsidy can be requested by a:
- a cultural institution
- a professional who has been active as an independent in the field of cultural education for at least two years
The application is always for the collaboration between the applicant and one or more schools. Both the applicant and the schools are established on the same island, which is either Curacao, Aruba, or Sint Maarten.
What can you apply for?
We support the exploration of a collaboration between a cultural institution or professional and one or more schools. This involves activities such as discussions, developing plans, professional development, making agreements about, among other things, the content, division of tasks and financing, and trying out activities. The exploration is focused on cultural education for the pupils of the schools.
The following effects are being worked on in the exploration:
This is the process in which multiple people and/or organizations work together towards the same goal. The basis is good communication, joint efforts, and combined forces. The collaboration leads to one or more results that the parties cannot achieve alone.
Questions that can help describe this effect are:
- What is your shared goal and what activities are you going to undertake to achieve this goal? For example, think of consultations, exchange, professional development, trial lessons, workshops, and evaluations.
- In what way do you work together? And, if working together is not yet self-evident, how do you ensure that?
- What is everyone's expertise and how do you ensure that you use each other's knowledge, skills, network, and possibilities as effectively as possible?
- When are you satisfied with the collaboration within the exploration?
Every child and young person of every background, origin, or place of residence has an equal opportunity to learn about and with culture and to discover their own creative talents. This can be done within cultural education subjects, but also more broadly in (citizenship) education.
Questions that can help describe this effect are:
- Is there attention for equal opportunities at the school with which you collaborate and if so, how?
- How can cultural education contribute to increasing equal opportunities for the pupils of the school with which you collaborate?
How do you apply for a subsidy?
- On this page, in the box under ‘Documents’, you will find all the important information, such as the subsidy scheme with all the conditions on which we assess your application. You will also find formats here to help you with your application.
- You can apply for a subsidy via Mijn Fonds: our online application environment. Click on ‘Apply for a subsidy’ at the top of this page to create a Mijn Fonds account (this may take a few days) and start your application.
Good to know
- Cultural education also includes heritage education. International cooperation can also be included in the application, if this will improve local cooperation.
- Your project will last at least two months and a maximum of one year. The project will not start earlier than eight weeks after submitting the application. And the project will start within six months after the application has been approved.
- You can apply for a minimum of € 5.000 and a maximum of € 15.000. The requested amount is a maximum of 100% of your project costs.
- You apply the three cultural codes, as described in article 1.6 of the subsidy scheme.
- Within this section, a maximum of two applications per applicant will be approved.
- The subsidy ceiling is € 200.000. The following budget is available per country:
- Curaçao: € 83.962
- Aruba: € 68.285
- Sint-Maarten: € 47.753
- Applications will be processed in order of receipt, until the end of the budget is reached. Therefore, start on time; do not wait too long to apply.
