արդ եւս|in view aims to inspire, facilitate, and support innovation and contemporaneity in the cultural and creative sectors in Western Armenian, in order to sustain future generations through a vibrant language and culture.

It brings support to cultural changemakers and strives to inspire people and communities to experience, reimagine, and share culture through the development and implementation of fresh ideas that matter for envisioning a vibrant future for the Western Armenian language and culture.

The արդ եւս|in view programme gives opportunities to individuals and small groups to create, produce, and distribute diverse cultural productions in Western Armenian. Cultural production is understood in its widest sense to include practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills, as well as instruments, tools, and spaces in which the language is central.

The selection jury will be internal to Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. External experts will also be consulted when necessary to assess specific submissions.

The արդ եւս|in view programme aims to fund up to 10 projects per year. This number may vary due to the quantity and quality of applications received. Grant amounts will be determined based on the needs of each project, but may not exceed 10,000 Euros per project in total, non-renewable. The same recipient(s) cannot apply to an արդ եւս|in view grant in consecutive years with different projects. However, unsuccessful applicants may apply again in subsequent years.

Eligibility Conditions

The արդ եւս|in view programme will accept submissions from individuals, small groups, as well as non-profit organizations and institutions. All interested parties above the age of 18 are welcome to apply, with the exception of for-profit entities which are not eligible. Applicants need not necessarily be established artists.

The projects could include but are not limited to the following areas:

1. The arts, heritage, and the humanities.
2. Creative expressions of ideas, experiences, and emotions in a range of media, including:

• Theatre, performing arts
• Visual arts
• Literature, literary criticism, translations (books, audio books, journals, periodicals, essays, websites, online publications, graphic novels…)
• Interdisciplinary and hybrid forms of cultural expression that have emerged thanks to new media
• New music
• Videos, installations, animations, blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts, vodcasts, applications
• Radio programmes and creative broadcasting on different platforms.

How to Apply 

• We only accept online applications.
• You need to register before applying.
• Please read the “Call for Proposals” document available in the documents section above before applying.
• Your application will only be valid after all the mandatory fields of the application form are complete and the mandatory documents are uploaded. 
• At the end click on the “Submit” button. We strongly advise candidates not to wait until the last few days before applying.