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This grant program provides financial support to privately owned protected cultural heritage sites and monuments in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The goal is to restore these monuments and their surrounding cultural environments to preserve their source value, experiential value, use, and value creation. The grant covers additional costs associated with restoration, maintenance, antiquarian safeguarding, conservation of fixed inventory, and management of cultural monuments and environments. Private owners and managers of cultural monuments and environments that are protected, temporarily protected, or under consideration for protection are eligible to apply. The program prioritizes monuments with particularly burdensome maintenance and restoration tasks, buildings where significant cultural heritage values are at risk of being lost, and monuments accessible to the public for experience and education.

Riksantikvaren distributes 3.4 million kroner for value creation projects related to cultural heritage environments. The program supports projects connected to preservation strategies for cultural environments in rural and urban areas, or in business and industry. Value creation is understood as creating social, cultural, environmental and economic values through activities linked to the preservation and development of cultural environments. The grants aim to help ensure that cultural environments are used as resources and contribute to giving the cultural heritage field a clearer role in local and regional development. Projects must involve collaboration between multiple actors within the public and/or private sector. The program does not fund pure mapping, restoration, maintenance or conservation projects in this call. Grants typically cover no more than 50% of project costs. Priority areas for 2026 include 'knowledge and competence' and 'preservation and use' within the framework of the preservation strategies.

The grant program for cultural heritage competence in municipalities (KIK) is designed to strengthen competence and provide better oversight of heritage-worthy cultural environments, cultural heritage sites, and landscapes in Norwegian municipalities. Riksantikvaren allocates grants from the state budget to support work on cultural heritage competence in municipalities. The program prioritizes initiatives that strengthen the protection of cultural heritage interests in planning under the Planning and Building Act. The funds should contribute to increased competence in municipalities and promote collaboration. It is particularly important to consider cultural heritage as part of local and regional preparedness work to ensure and preserve cultural heritage interests. In 2026, the program continues largely as before, with a focus on completion of cultural heritage plans, implementation of risk and vulnerability analyses (ROS analyses) of cultural heritage, and targeted competence measures for regional administration. For regional administration, priorities include targeted competence initiatives that provide increased knowledge about management of cultural heritage in municipalities according to the Planning and Building Act in line with updated national initiatives in the cultural heritage field, and initiatives that provide increased knowledge about safeguarding cultural heritage in preparedness work.