Mutual Heritage matching fund open for Dutch applications

One of the new tasks for the Cultural Heritage Desk is to allocate the mutual heritage matching funds among Dutch organizations. These funds are meant to inspire and support initiatives that increase visibility or coherence of mutual heritage activities. The newly installed mutual heritage programme council will advise us in this task.

Matching funds can be awarded to projects from Dutch legal entities that:

• already have commitments from other financiers;
• are preferably organised with one of the partner countries (Australia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Suriname, Sri Lanka, the United States and South Africa);
• have a maximum duration of four years;
• preferably contribute to the awareness of mutual heritage and fit well with the central themes.

The amount to be awarded varies from a minimum of 5,000 Euros to a maximum of 50,000 Euros per year.

To apply for the matching funds you are invited to contact us. We work with an online form that will be extended after the initial contact. We will be pleased to advise you on the conditions and procedures and assist you with the application.

Matching funds are only available for Dutch heritage organizations. Heritage organizations in the partner countries can apply for funding at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in their country.

Programme Council
The programme council consists of the following experts:

Prof. dr. Gert Oostindie               General Director KITLV and History Professor at
                                                    University Leiden
Drs Martine Gosselink                 Head of the History Department of the Rijksmuseum
Prof. dr. Joost Schokkenbroek     Head of Curators at the National Maritime Museum
                                                    and Maritime Heritage Professor at Free University.
 Jhr. ir. Diederik Six                      Owner Six Architects and President of ICOMOS
                                                    Netherlands

For more details, you can also visit the website (in Dutch).