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This grant program provides funding for professional development, competence enhancement, experimentation, and collaboration in the arts and culture field. The program aims to strengthen the independent arts and culture field's opportunities to build networks, increase competence, and develop professionally. The scheme should collectively contribute to a more diverse, relevant, exploratory, and sustainable arts and culture field. The program supports activities such as bringing in external expertise to develop operations, professional exchange and organizational/network development, developing/sharing new knowledge or new ways of working, and interdisciplinary collaborations across the arts and culture field or with other societal sectors. Projects must be time-limited, and applicants can apply for multi-year grants for up to three years. The project must benefit the arts and culture field and/or the general public.

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.