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ifa Funding Programmes

Peace Work – Art – Shelter Programmes – Civil Society

The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen supports exchange and dialogue between cultures through its funding programmes and fellowships. It promotes networking among artists, civil society actors and institutions, and academics, and provides them with places of refuge. With its long-term partnerships, sponsorships and scholarships, ifa contributes to a peaceful and enriching coexistence between people, nations and religions. ifa brings people together.

Workshop of the funding programme CCP in 2018

Workshop of the funding programme CCP in 2018 © Wolfgang Kuhnle

[Translate to english:] Die Ausstellungsförderung des ifa bringt Menschen zusammen © Victoria Tomaschko

[Translate to english:] Die Ausstellungsförderung des ifa bringt Menschen zusammen © Victoria Tomaschko

Discussion during the workshop of the CCP grant program in 2017

Discussion during the workshop of the CCP grant program in 2017, Foto: Wolfgang Kuhnle

Funding for Work-Related Stays and Networks in Germany and Abroad

CCP – CrossCulture Programme fellowships offer professionals and institutions in the fields of culture, education, science, art and media an opportunity to broaden their international experience. CCP’s funding helps to build strong civil society networks between Germany and the rest of the world.

Scholarship holders of the CrossCulture program at a workshop.

CCP Fellowships

CCP Fellowships enables professionals and committed volunteers to work in an intercultural environment for two to three months and to gather new skills.

Three scholarship holders of the CCP Synergy program sharing ideas at a table.

CCP Synergy

CCP Synergy brings two organisations from Germany and a partner country together. They work in cooperation on a project that brings cultural actors together in dialogue.

A number of people are sitting in a circle of chairs. In the background, presentation cards hang on a wall. It is a workshop of the ifa CrossCulture Programme. Photo: ifa / CCP

CCP Alumni

CCP Alumni promotes the professional development of former CCP scholarship holders and deepens existing cooperations and networks.

Funding for Exhibitions Abroad and Artist Networking Worldwide

In the area of art funding, ifa provides financial support for planned exhibitions abroad and awards grants for art projects and artists worldwide.

Exhibition Funding

The Exhibition Funding programme supports contemporary artists in implementing art projects abroad.

ifa supports exhibition projects abroad - here a contribution to the Liverpool Biennale 2016

Artists' Contacts

Coming together in conversation: The Artists‘ Contacts programme supports international exchange and networking between cultural actors.

ifa promotes the exchange between creative professionals

Civil Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding Worldwide

You can see a dance performance in Nepal as part of the zivik support program.

zivik Funding Programme

The zivik Funding Programme supports NGOs with the planning and implementation of projects in crisis and conflict regions worldwide.

Shelter Programmes

Martin Roth Initiative

In many countries socio-political commitment results in personal danger for those involved. The Martin Roth Initiative facilitates shelter for artists at risk.

You can see an illustration of three people from different backgrounds for the ifa's Martin Roth Initiative.

Elisabeth-Selbert-Initiative

Those who advocate for human rights often face danger and then need protection themselves. The Elisabeth-Selbert-Initiative provides threatened human rights defenders with a safe place to recuperate, cope with trauma, and when possible, to network and further develop their professional skills.

ESI is a protection programm for human rights defenders © FG Trade

Funding Programmes for German Minorities

ifa supports cultural, educational, youth and media projects run by organisations representing German minorities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Deployment Programme

The skills of professionals from youth and cultural work, cultural management or journalistic organisations of German minorities are supported through the Deployment Programme.

The picture shows a room with people sitting in a workshop. In the foreground of the photo you can see a sheet of paper with ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen written on it.

Cultural Assistant Programme

The Cultural Assistant Programme provides financial support for projects by organisations, associations and editorial offices of German minorities.

Map of Europe as a puzzle that people are working on

Project Funding for German Minorities

ifa supports cultural projects as well as educational, youth and media projects of German minority organisations in Eastern Europe and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Funded Project: Theatre performance by teens in Romania

Job Shadowing Programme

Employees and volunteers from organisations of German minorities can spend up to four weeks at a host institution. The programme aims to offer new impulses for their work and provide further professional training.

Close-up of a map of Eastern Europe with some red pins as part of the ifa internship program.

Social Media Grant

Taking the community on a journey: with the social media grant, people from German minority organisations can report from their countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus or Central Asia and share their experiences.

Camera, newspaper and travel guide on top of a map of Europe

Sustainable Global Network

Alumni

ifa Alumni are former funding recipients, representatives and experts involved in cultural exchange, dialogue and communication worldwide. They are artists, curators, active in cultural management and in research about culture and foreign policy, and they are committed to the freedom of the arts, expression and information. ifa is dedicated to network with currently more than a thousand alumni in order for them to jointly develop new initiatives and projects.

: Workshop of the funding programme CCP in 2018. Photo: Wolfgang Kuhnle
: The exhibition funding from ifa brings artists together. Photo: Victoria Tomaschko
: © ifa / Goethe Institut Peking. Photo: Yongge Liu
: May Al-Hares during a CCP workshop in 2017 © ifa. Photo: Wolfgang Kuhnle
: Photo: Victoria Tomaschko
: Fellows of the CrossCulture Program at a workshop in 2019. Photo: ifa / Simone Schiffer
: Photo: Wolfgang Kuhnle
: © ifa / CCP
: ifa supports exhibition projects abroad – here a contribution to the Liverpool Biennale 2016. Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
: ifa promotes the exchange between creative professionals. Photo: Viktoria Tomaschko
: Dance performance of the Tharu during a workshop for intercultural learning in Pokhara, Nepal, 2018; photo: Nagarik Aawaz / Ganga Sagar Rai. Photo: Ganga Sagar Rai
: © ifa / Charity Atukunda & Dianah Bwengye
: Photo: FG Trade
: Photo: Volkmar Otto
: Workshop "Populism and extremism", Stuttgart 2018; Photo: Dominique Brewing
: Funded Project: Theatre performance by teens in Romania, Photo: Gabriel Amza
: Photo: Simon Ant
: Photo: ifa / Hannah Fischer
: Photo: Clint Adair via Unsplash