Culture and Small Action Project

The small actions were also helpful as a flexible tool to address SDC’s past cross-cutting themes of governance, human rights and gender, as well as supporting Swiss-Mongolian cultural exchanges, which promoted the Swissness and Swiss presence in Mongolia.

Culture and Small Action Project in the Phase 4 will concentrate on funding cultural and artistic initiatives.

The Culture Project will aim to strengthen both local cultural identity and diversity, and to promote intercultural exchanges between Switzerland and Mongolia

• Art houses and practicioners
• Individual artists
• Art academic institutions 

Culture Project aims to:

1. To contribute to Mongolia’s cultural diversity and development by providing grants to Mongolian artists, art houses and practitioners; and
2. To promote cultural exchanges between Switzerland and Mongolia through meaningful artistic and cultural expressions and initiatives.

Risultati principali attesi:  

Projects will be financed on competitive basis through an open call for proposals.

The call will be announced once at the beginning of each calendar year through SDC’s communications channel and local media outlets.  

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

SA projects in the past have contributed to:

• development and introduction of new and niche products; and
• start-up of new and larger scale development projects.

Culture projects contributed to revival and appreciation of the traditional cultural heritages, and diversified artistic and cultural expressions.

Fase 4 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2016   (Completed)