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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.