Structural Support Grants

Structural Support Grants provide much-needed financial support for increased capacity to organisations and professionals in the field of arts and culture and related civil society engagement both in and beyond the three major urban centres of Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir.

Structural Support Grants aim to strengthen the operational capacity of organizations to function independently and to sustain their operations by providing structural support.

Implementing projects depends to a great extent on the availability of venues and spaces for dialogue, presentation and audience development. Providing new and improved spaces for independent cultural activities, accessible to independent actors in the field of arts and culture, fosters cultural and artistic encounters as well as collaboration, resulting in audience growth and improvement in audience engagement.

This page is published on 23 June 2021.
Last update: 15 August 2022

A total of 64 applications were made to the open call between 5 July and 4 August 2023. Applications that fully met the conditions of the Structural Support Grants and completed all application documents were forwarded to the jury members after the technical evaluation made by the CultureCIVIC team. The applications were evaluated by Hale Eryılmaz, chairman of the board of directors of the Aegean Association, Ali Uluç Kutal, İKSV Production department manager, Sanem Yardımcı, Goethe-Institut Istanbul library director, Aslı Yurdanur, cultural affairs coordinator of the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, and Latife Uluçınar, Anadolu Kültür program coordinator, and 8 projects to be supported were determined.

Digital Capacity Development and Sustainability Project

Istanbul Gender Museum

İSTANBUL

Without a Space but Everywhere

Amidart Culture and Arts Community

DİYARBAKIR

Reverse

Odeon Pergamon Collective

İZMİR

Pink Life QueerFest Capacity Building Project

Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association

ANKARA

Cineshack: An Independent Space

Mersin Cinéphile Cinema Association

MERSİN

ZarokMa
Open-Air Stage

Music Family Association

DİYARBAKIR

Ziçev Mersin Art Center: A Story of Healing

Mersin Branch of the Foundation for Raising and Protecting Mentally Disabled Children

MERSİN

Yesayan Culture and Literature Archive

Cultural Preservation and Interaction

Yesayan Culture and Literature Association

İSTANBUL

A total of 84 applications were made to the open call, which took place between 10 October and 15 November 15 2022. Applications that fully met the conditions of the Structural Support Grants and filled in all the application documents were submitted to the jury members after the technical evaluation by the CultureCIVIC team. Applications were evaluated by ImpactHub Ankara Co-Founder Berivan Eliş, Istanbul Biennial Exhibition Architect and Project Manager Gamze Öztürk, Germany-Turkey Partnership Initiative All Together Project Coordinator Beril Sönmez from Anadolu Kültür and Aslı Yurdanur, Cultural Affairs Coordinator of the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, and 8 projects to be supported were determined.

Action / Experience / Contact

Yermekân

ANKARA

Ayvalık International Film Festival at Küçük Han

Seyir Association

BALIKESİR

Cultural Labour Platform Technical Infrastructure Project

Kültür Emeği Platformu

ONLINE

Cultureschack

Kültürhane

Mersin

DÎWAN: International Theatre Academy

Şermola Performance

BATMAN

Improving the Physical Conditions of Çıplak Ayaklar Studio

Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

İSTANBUL

Nesin Vakfı Tiyatro ve Gösteri Sahnesinin İyileştirilmesi

Nesin Vakfı

İSTANBUL

Transformation of Kırkayak Art Centre into an Open Space

Kırkayak Kültür

GAZİANTEP

A total of 138 applications were received for the Structural Support Grants between 25 October – 10 December 2021. Applications were first evaluated by the CultureCIVIC project team, then by Esra A. Aysun, Head of Arts Turkey at British Council; Özlem Ece, Director of Cultural Policy Studies at Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts; İpek M. Sur, Senior Policy Officer for Culture and Public Diplomacy for the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Övgü Gökçe, Director of Diyarbakır Arts Center of Anadolu Kültür; Laden Yurttagüler, Program Coordinator of Center for Civil Society Studies, and the projects to be supported were determined.

Film Set Kültürhane

Kültürhane Association

MERSİN

From
Ali Rıza Bey Mansion to an
Art Space

Sevilay Refika Kadıoğlu

ARTVİN

Habitat for the Arts

Troy Cultural Association

ÇANAKKALE

Channel Tuning

Kutsal Motor

ONLINE, ISTANBUL