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This grant program provides funding for projects that preserve, develop, and make visible the Romani people/Travellers' language, culture, identity, and history. The scheme is administered by the Norwegian Arts Council (Kulturdirektoratet) on behalf of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. The funding supports initiatives that strengthen Romani culture and history, promote the Romani language, document and disseminate knowledge about the Romani people's situation, and conduct attitude-shaping work. Applications are evaluated based on how the project contributes to meeting the scheme's goals and the applicant's implementation capacity.

This grant program provides funding for pilot projects and the development of infrastructure and content that preserves, develops, and makes visible the culture, language, and history of the Romani people/Travellers. The program supports two types of projects: preparatory projects (forprosjekter) for planning organizational structure, operations, and content activities; and development projects for establishing physical meeting places and developing regular activities. Preparatory projects can receive up to 300,000 NOK and should be completed within one year. Development grants support infrastructure such as new construction, renovation of existing facilities, administrative costs, and content including events, exhibitions, advisory services, and language courses. Development projects should be completed within two years. The program aims to establish cultural arenas and meeting places with long-term sustainability, requiring applicants to demonstrate plans for future financing and operations beyond the establishment period.

This grant program supports the artistic production and presentation of theater in the independent performing arts field in Norway. It provides funding for professional performing arts practitioners, producers, production environments and other entities within the performing arts sector. The program aims to stimulate and strengthen artistic development and production of professional dance, theater and other performing arts. Funding can be provided for single projects or multi-year project support for up to four years. The program requires that productions be shown publicly and supports various costs including salaries and fees for artists, production expenses such as logistics, venue rental, technical equipment, materials, administrative costs, and producer work related to tour planning and distribution. From autumn 2025, the program has been expanded to include incentive funding for new dramaturgy, allowing applicants to apply for up to 180,000 NOK towards co-financing of playwright fees as part of a theater production project. Dramaturgy is understood as a collective term for various texts written for scenic performance, excluding dramatizations of existing text material. The text must be a premiere performance and written in a language covered by the Language Act, including Bokmål, Nynorsk, Sami languages, Kven, Romani, Romanes or Norwegian sign language.

This grant supports literary projects for books in Norwegian, Sami, or national minority languages (Kven, Romani, and Romanes). The purpose is to enable the initiation, development, and accessibility of projects that increase breadth and quality in the literary field in Norway. Literary publications can be in written, oral, or digital form. The scheme supports various activities including editorial initiatives for translated literature, critical text work on Norwegian or Sami classics, recruitment of literary voices and diversity expansion, translation to Norwegian of literary works by minority language authors residing in Norway, translation of works written in Sami languages, literary projects in national minority languages, literary projects by or for persons with disabilities, distribution of minority language literature and accessible literature, and publication of non-fiction literature on literary themes. The grant does not typically provide full financing, and applications are evaluated by an expert committee that considers artistic and professional content, project quality, relevance to the scheme's purpose, and feasibility.

This operational grant supports voluntary organizations working to strengthen the culture, language, and self-organization of national minorities in Norway. The scheme aims to strengthen national minorities' culture, language, and self-organization, with a goal that national minority organizations can promote their interests to various authorities. The five recognized national minorities in Norway are Jews, Roma, Kvens/Norwegian Finns, Romani people/Travelers, and Forest Finns. Organizations must have a membership base in a national minority, work to promote their interests and rights, preserve and develop their culture, identity, language, tradition and cultural heritage. The grant provides operational support for one year as part of the overall financing of the organization. Priority is given to organizations with high membership numbers, active local chapters, and activities that fulfill the scheme's purpose, with particular emphasis on youth organizations or activities for children and young people.