{"id":64730,"date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=64730"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:20:17","slug":"prince-claus-fund-seed-award-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/prince-claus-fund-seed-award-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prince Claus Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Free to Apply<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Closing: 8th January 2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Annual award for 100 emerging artists and cultural practitioners working in contexts where cultural expression is under pressure. \u20ac5,000 trust-based grant per recipient to invest freely in artistic and cultural practice development. Open to individuals in initial 1-5 years of professional career (excluding study years) from, living, and working in eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Middle East, and Eastern Europe (OECD DAC listed countries). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicants must have established innovative artistic\/cultural practice addressing pressing social\/political issues in their local context, and received little to no institutional recognition\/support. Work must contribute to free expression and safe spaces in civil society, participation and structural equity, or environmental sustainability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applications via online platform only, requiring work samples, CV, reference letter, and 3-minute pitch video\/audio answering “What drives you as an artist?”. Trust-based funding allows recipients complete autonomy in how they use the grant. Broad disciplinary understanding of arts and culture; experimental, innovative, interdisciplinary practices encouraged. Results announced mid-July 2026. One-time award only; previous recipients cannot reapply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2026 offers \u20ac5,000 trust-based grants to 100 emerging artists\/cultural practitioners (1-5 years career) from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East, Eastern Europe. Socially\/politically engaged work. Free application. Deadline 8th January 2026, 17:00 Amsterdam time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65349,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64730\/revisions\/65349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}