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Since 2009, the "International Visitors Programme" of the NRW KULTURsekretariat, in cooperation with the NRW Ministry of Culture, has been linking actors from the fields of cultural journalism, cultural mediation and cultural policy as well as heads of institutions and other multipliers from all over the world with the scene in the state.

Under the motto "NRWho? NRWhere? NRWhat?", around 100 international guests visit North Rhine-Westphalia every year. Reporting by foreign media also strengthens the international perception of NRW as an outstanding cultural landscape.

Partners from NRW can apply for regular calls for theme, event, networking and press trips.

In addition to visiting performances, exhibitions or concerts, the invited participants gain an insight into cultural life on the Rhine, Ruhr and Lippe. Through personal encounters and intensive mediation by the NRWKS, collaborations between artists, companies or cultural institutions from NRW are established time and again.

Since 2014, individual trips by foreign visitors have also been offered for the development of already announced cooperation projects with partners in NRW.

In 2020, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, only a small part of the 14 planned programmes - on dance, theatre, photography, new music, film, contemporary circus and games, among others - could be realised: a trip for photo curators in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Chennai in India as well as a visitor programme on the occasion of the festival "Favoriten" 2020. The network meeting of a thematic trip on inclusion in the performing arts took place online.

Based on this situation and the results of the conference "SYNERGIZE! Culture in Democratic Action" (November 2019), the "International Visitors Programme" is increasingly developing new formats for global networking. These include the project "Culture in the Time of Corona", which uses 35 films by alumni to provide insights into the situation of cultural workers worldwide and to initiate an exchange with local actors, as well as the transdisciplinary online workshop "Reflecting Hybrid Platforms".

Numerous visitor programmes are planned for 2021 and invitations have been extended to foreign cultural workers in NRW. The focus of the programme will be on the expansion of hybrid formats as well as on networking with international residency programmes.

The "International Visitors Programme" cooperates closely with the cultural workers, NRW's state offices and cultural offices as well as with the Goethe-Institut and foreign cultural organisations.

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