The Fritt Ord Foundation's deadlines for applications in spring 2020

April 1 2020

In connection with the corona pandemic, on 17 March 2020, Fritt Ord announced a call for applications for MNOK 40 in extraordinary grants. The call is for applications for projects related to the situation created by the corona crisis. The first deadline for the extraordinary call for applications was 31 March.

The following deadline applies for the next round of applications:

3 p.m. on Thursday, 30 April

Extraordinary call for applications in connection with the corona crisis
note: Label the application “Extraordinary grants 2020” in the title field.

3 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 May

Ordinary applications (e.g. for documentary films, documentary photos, festivals, conferences and seminars, theatre projects, manuscript development and the publication of factual prose. Refers to projects not created in response to the corona crisis or projects that have changed significantly due to the crisis).
Ordinary applications need not be labelled – merely write name of the project in the title field.

3 p.m. on Friday, 8 May

Norwegian Journalism
Please note: Label the application “Norwegian Journalism” in the title field.

3 p.m. on Friday, 8 May

The Fritt Ord Foundation’s grants for critics: Good Criticism 2020 – 2021
note: Label the application “Grant for critics” in the title field.

Applications for the same project should not be submitted in response to different calls for applications. If you forget to label your application, do not re-submit it, but rather notify Fritt Ord by sending an email to: post@frittord.no. We will correct it manually.

Since these deadlines are close together, please submit your application as close as possible to the relevant deadline.

News

Eirin Larsen and Hadia Tajik join the Fritt Ord Board

August 5 2025

Eirin Larsen (36) and Hadia Tajik (42) bring valuable experience from journalism, technology, politics and jurisprudence to the Fritt Ord Board.

Making the film «Farouk» – on the geologist that secured Norway its oil

July 1 2025

Geologist Farouk Al-Kasim joined the the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in 1968, shaping Norwegian petroleum resource management for decades afterwards. Now, documentary film director Halkawt Mustafa and producer Janne Hjeltnes are making a film about Al-Kasim’s life and reflections.
“Farouk tells me something in this film that he has not talked about before, because he has always told the version he feels Norway wanted to hear,” recounts Mustafa, who has Iraqi roots himself.

Read the interview with the director and see the list of grants awarded by Fritt Ord in June 2025.

Bård Vegar Solhjell new chair of the Fritt Ord Board

July 1 2025

Bård Vegar Solhjell (53) has taken over as the new chair of the Fritt Ord Foundation Board.

Cultural newspaper TBATBA.no and new journalism grants – June 2025

June 19 2025

– Cultural journalism is under pressure. Part of the problem is media outlets failing to cover culture in formats and ways that appeal to people under 30, says Ida Madsen Hestman, editor, freelance critic, and founder of TBATBA.no. Last year, she started the kind of publication she herself would want to read.

The magazine TBA is among those awarded funding in June 2025. See the full list of grants in Norsk Journalistikk.