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 Consideration of applications

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Forms and information sheets

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Guide for Applicants 2003 (PDF file 188K)

How do you submit an application?

Where can you obtain information?

If you have questions, the staff at Pro Helvetia will be happy to help you. They will advise you and provide information on possibilities of receiving assistance from Pro Helvetia and on the application procedure itself.

Please address your written or telephone inquiries to:

Pro Helvetia
(Discipline area)
Hirschengraben 22, P. O. Box
8024 Zurich
Tel. +41 1 267 71 71
Fax +41 1 267 71 06
info@pro-helvetia.ch

Please remember to indicate the relevant discipline area. This will help speed up the process.

When can applications be submitted?

There are fixed deadlines for certain categories of applications, but not for others. Please note the following guidelines:

• Work grants are intended to enable the creation of new artistic works.
  • The application deadline for work grants is
    31 December of any given year.
    Please note: Pro Helvetia does not award work grants in every field.
• We define “projects” as proposals to bring existing works to audiences, be it via performances, exhibitions or publications. In the domain of theatre and dance, this can include the production of a new work. The creation of a new social context by cultural means is also considered a project.
  • Applications for project grants of Fr. 20,000 or less can be submitted at any time; they are processed as they come in. Where a project consists in an event scheduled to commence or take place on a specific date, you application must reach Pro Helvetia headquarters at least 8 weeks before the start of the event.
  • Applications for over Fr. 20,000 can be submitted to meet either the 1 February or 1 August deadline. Where a project consists in an event scheduled to commence or take place on a specific date, please submit your application to meet a deadline at least 4 months before the planned start of the event.
  • All applications relating to the funding of theatrical and dance productions can be submitted to meet either the 1 February or 1 August deadline.

Careful: In certain cases our branch and liaison offices abroad have their own application deadlines.

Please note: Have you missed a deadline? We will keep your application pending and handle it at the next designated time – so long as this is still at least 4 months before the start of the event. Otherwise the application will be considered ineligible for review.

What kind of documentation must be enclosed with your application?

All applications to Pro Helvetia must include the following material:

• a detailed description of the project, providing
  • the exact contents of the proposal, documented by sketches, outlines or excerpts where necessary;
  • information on the scheduled time and place;
  • information on the people involved (organisers, cultural practitioners, specialist consultants/lecturers, participants);
  • information on motivation, strategies, goals, desired effects, target audience, criteria of success and marketing ideas;
• a budget, providing
  • an itemised list of projected expenses (incl. estimates);
• a financial plan, including
  • information on all prospective income:
    - ant-icipated grants from institutions, companies, etc., to whom application has been made;
    - grants that have already been approved;
    - funding to be provided by the applicant(s);
    - estimated income from the performance(s)/event;
  • information on the sum requested from Pro Helvetia;
    
• documentation, providing
  • a work biography of the cultural practitioners involved;
  • information on the past productions/works of the cultural practitioners involved;
  • press kits/reviews or video documentations of past works/projects.

Each discipline area has its own application forms, which must be used. These forms may list additional material required for the evaluation of an application. Details can be found below, in the sections on the individual discipline areas.

Pro Helvetia also has information sheets containing useful facts and advice on the preparation of applications.

Forms and information sheets for the individual discipline areas can be also ordered in printed form from Pro Helvetia headquarters.

Please note: Applications cannot be considered if additional support material requested by Pro Helvetia is not provided in time to meet the designated deadline.

Where do you send your application?

Please address your application to:

Pro Helvetia
(Discipline area)
Hirschengraben 22
Postfach, 8024 Zurich

Please remember to indicate the relevant discipline area.

Applications from countries in which Pro Helvetia maintains a branch or liaison office must be submitted to those offices.