The following requirements must be met in order to submit an application to TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund:
- Applicants must be resident and organisations or institutions must be located in Germany.
- As a rule, the principle of additionality applies to funding. This means that the project content should be developed in addition to ongoing and established projects. For projects already funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, the focus should be on further developing the concepts they have already implemented.
- Generally, the minimum grant amount for new projects is 90,000 euros, and the maximum amount is 600,000 euros. The maximum grant amount for projects that have previously received TANZPAKT funding is 300,000 euros.
- Co-financing of at least the same amount as the requested grant must be secured from municipalities, federal states or other funders at the time of application.
- The duration of the projects is generally 36 months. All activities must be completed by 30 June 2030 at the latest.
- The project should take place primarily in Germany.
- A professional organisational structure must be in place to implement the project.
- While we advise that the co-financing should be awarded specifically for the funded project, it is also permissible to declare existing multi-year funding as co-financing. One-off project funding, however, does not count as co-financing.
- Statements of intent from all participating partner institutions must be submitted as part of the application.
In addition, applicants must guarantee appropriate working conditions for staff and freelance collaborators. Suggested feesfor freelancers in the performing arts are based on the BDFK’s minimum wage recommendations, which should not be undercut. For permanent staff, salary levels must be equal to or exceed the statutory minimum wage set out in §1 MiLoG.
Assessment criteria
The criteria used to assess applications include:
- the relevance of the project to the objectives of the funding programme
- the quality and feasibility of the submitted project
- the qualitative development of existing activities and/or the development of new fields of work
- the model character of the project applied for
- the artistic quality and excellence of the previous work of the applicants and, if applicable, the partners
- the quality of the networking of the applicants
- the development of effective measures to generate new target groups
- the realisation of effective mediation formats
- the supra-regional visibility of the project results
- the removal of access barriers for project participants and spectators in the sense of an expanded concept of inclusion.
- for projects that have previously received TANZPAKT funding: a convincing presentation of the quality and effectiveness of the measures implemented regarding the formulated project objectives and content
Reasons for disqualification
No funding via TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund is possible if:
- Sufficient co-financing has not been secured for the project.
- The project or applicants do not meet the eligibility requirements.
- The application has not been submitted in time for the deadline.
- The application is incomplete or was not submitted via the application portal.
- The applicant or organisation are not resident/based in Germany.
- The project has already begun, expenses have been accrued or contracts concluded before the selection panel has completed its session.
- The project is financed by other funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
All important information on the 2025 call for proposals can be found summarised in the funding principles.
Applications can only be submitted via the application portal on the Bureau Ritter website. Once you have started the application process in the portal, you can keep working on it and saving it until the deadline.
