Two calls for proposals will be realised in the period 2025-2030. The application deadline for the first funding round is 22 September 2025, 18:00. The application deadline for the second funding round is planned for spring 2027 - the exact date will be published on www.tanzpakt.de in good time. We recommend subscribing to the newsletter, in which the deadlines will be communicated as soon as they are finalised.
Call for proposals 2025
- Start of applications: 1st of april 2025
- Application deadline: 22nd of September 2025, 6pm
- Jury meeting: in October 2025
- Earliest possible project start: 15 November 2025 with a standard term of 36 months
- Project end: 30 June 2030 at the latest
Call for proposals 2026
- Application start: from November 2026
- Application deadline: from April 2027
- Jury meeting: from June 2027
- Possible project start: from July 2027
- Project end: 30 June 2030 at the latest
Applications are submitted exclusively via the Bureau Ritter digital application portal. The application can be processed continuously until the application deadline.
Applications must be submitted using the online form provided in the portal, which includes a detailed project description that should take the following points into account:
- If you are applying to TANZPAKT for the first time: Describe the initial situation on which the motivation and idea for your project are based.
- If you are applying for funding for the further development of a measure that has already received funding: Based on the status quo described above, reflect on and evaluate your previous work and explain what else you want to achieve with renewed funding.
- Outline the concrete implementation of your project, describe the planned activities that you want to implement together with your partner institutions and outline the rough timeline.
- To what extent will your project open up new fields of work or improve the quality of existing activities?
- Which target groups will benefit from your planned activities and why?
- Describe the mediation measures you are planning.
- In addition, briefly describe the hoped-for impact of the successful implementation of your project.
- If applicable, describe your planned measures for removing barriers for project participants and spectators.
- Explain to what extent the project aims to achieve results that go beyond the interest of the partners and direct participants and that have a potential long-term impact, e.g. with regard to the development of the dance scene in your municipality and/or in your federal state or with regard to the visibility of dance in the (local) public.
The following must also be submitted as mandatory attachments:
- Scan (as PDF) of the self-declaration of the applicant(s) with data protection declaration and the signature of the authorized representative
- Detailed financing plan as an open Excel file
- Letters of intent from the co-financing partners
- informal declarations of intent from institutional partners (collaborations), if applicable
- Dossier with brief profiles of the partner institutions and relevant project participants, if applicable
To help you prepare your application, we will provide you with the mandatory templates for the applicant's self-declaration, the financing plan, the confirmation of your co-financing and the document “Guidelines for the preparation of the financing plan” HERE.
A maximum of three additional attachments can be added informally to the application, e.g. press reviews, accompanying letters and/ or letters of recommendation from the co-financing institutions. Projects that have already received funding can, for example, enclose existing evaluations.
