Travel Scheme International Heritage Cooperation

The travel expense scheme is intended to strengthen International Heritage Cooperation project applications by enabling the applicant to travel to the respective partner country to meet potential partners and experts and to obtain firsthand knowledge of the local situation. We hope that this will help the project be better embedded in the local context and that it will increase the reciprocity of the proposed project.

DutchCulture remunerates one-off economy class return aeroplane tickets for at most one person per project. The applicant must take care of visa costs, insurance costs, accommodation and subsistence expenses, domestic travel costs and all other expenses. Please note that the resources for this scheme are limited, every year we reserve € 20,000 for the travel expenses scheme. For more information, please download the document IHC Reiskostenregeling below (in Dutch).

• Dutch heritage experts can apply for a return ticket to one of the International Cultural Policy countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, India, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States of America to set up an International Heritage Cooperation project.
• Heritage experts from International Cultural Policy countries can also apply for a return ticket to the Netherlands to set up an International Heritage Cooperation project with a Dutch partner.
• Dutch organisations wishing to invite a heritage expert from one of the International Cultural Policy countries as a speaker for a conference, lecture or event on the heritage that connects the Netherlands with one of these countries can also apply to the travel expenses scheme.
• Heritage experts from one of the International Cultural Policy countries can also be reimbursed for a ticket to one of the other countries.