Hivos supports high-quality and innovative initiatives
Artistic quality, social engagement, accessibility and innovative quality: these are the criteria that Hivos judges by when supporting activities and projects in the field of art and culture. As a rule, all artistic disciplines are eligible for financing: literature, film, visual arts and performing arts.
Hivos judges applications on the following criteria:
Artistic quality
. Hivos works with artists who set high standards and demand high quality. Hivos calls on local expertise to help form its opinions.
Social engagement
. Hivos gives priority to initiatives that comment on developments in society, hold up a mirror to that society and in doing so break taboos.
Accessibility
. Priority is given to cultural and artistic expressions that target a wide audience, using such means as focusing on dissemination and accessibility. In this context, popular art is as valuable to Hivos as the so-called higher arts.
Innovative quality
. Hivos prefers to create opportunities for talented young individuals and stimulates new forms of expression in order to promote dynamic development in the cultural sector.
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