Culture and funding: requesting decisions and applications
You can obtain decisions on cultural grants, scholarship applications, public art procurements and cultural policy documents. Most documents are public. Insyna helps you write the request.
- Legal basis
- Freedom of the Press Act (Tryckfrihetsförordningen 1949:105) · Public Procurement Act (Lagen om offentlig upphandling 2016:1145)
- Response time
- Varies
- Contact
- Registrar or culture committee
What can you request?
Decisions on who has been granted cultural funding or scholarships, applications from organisations and companies, procurement documentation for public art, and minutes from the culture committee are generally official documents.
Personal and financial circumstances in private individuals’ scholarship applications may, however, be protected, as may expert assessments regarded as internal working material.
How Insyna helps you
Chydenius drafts a request to the registrar or culture committee and cites the right legislation, so you quickly obtain the documents you are after.
How to do it, step by step
Describe the matter
Tell Chydenius which grant decision, application or allocation you want, and from which authority or region.
We write the request
Chydenius drafts the request for the decisions and supporting documents, citing the right legal basis.
Send it anonymously
The request is sent anonymously; grant decisions are public records.
Follow up
If it delays or is refused, Chydenius helps you take it further.
What you can request
- Decisions on who has been granted cultural funding or scholarships
- Applications for cultural funding from organisations and companies
- Procurement documentation and contracts for public art
- Minutes from the culture committee’s meetings
What you cannot request
- Personal or financial circumstances in private individuals’ scholarship applications
- Expert assessments of artistic quality that may be regarded as internal working material
- Information that could reveal trade secrets in applications from cultural companies
Frequently asked questions
Can I see who received cultural funding?
Yes. Decisions on granted cultural funding and scholarships are generally public official documents.
Are scholarship applications public?
Applications from organisations and companies are usually public. In private individuals’ applications, sensitive personal or financial data may be protected.
Can I find out why my own grant application was rejected?
You have the right to a written decision and to request the documentation the decision was based on; for a fuller explanation, you can also ask the culture committee directly for the reasoning behind the assessment.
Are decisions on cultural grants appealable?
Grant decisions are often a form of discretionary funding rather than an individual right, so they are not always appealable in the same way as, for example, a social services decision — check the specific grant’s rules or ask the authority directly.
The email we send
This is the actual email Chydenius writes and sends to the authority for you — in correct Swedish, anonymously (never in your name), always asking for a reply by email. You don’t need to write Swedish yourself.
Bästa Handläggare, Jag önskar ta del av besluten om beviljat kulturstöd för innevarande år samt de ansökningar som legat till grund för besluten. Denna begäran grundar sig på offentlighetsprincipen enligt tryckfrihetsförordningen (1949:105) 2 kap. Jag önskar ta del av handlingarna digitalt (via e-post) i första hand. I avvaktan på Ert svar, En Medborgare