This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines for tours starting between January 2016 and June 2016, and is open to applicants who are resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
The decision by both arts councils to combine resources and work together to create a simpler, joined-up approach was taken in May 2013. Both arts councils wished to address a noted decline in artistic work being performed and exhibited on both sides of the border in recent years. The initiative is aimed at encouraging and incentivising such tours.