In order to consolidate the position of the Curatorial Programme within the larger artistic and discursive framework of the Netherlands (and Belgium), the programme is involved in several institutional alliances.

SKOR
SKOR (Foundation Art and Public Space) is a nationally operating organisation, which develops exceptional art projects in relation to public spaces. The projects realised by SKOR respond to social political changes in society and current developments in contemporary art, architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture. SKOR mediates between artists, commissioners and public. By raising current themes in both the art works and her public programs, SKOR contributes to the debate on the meaning and use of public spaces. Since September 2009, de Appel and SKOR have initiated a productive collaboration that runs until 2012, wherein both organisations strengthen each other’s expertise. Partly by this liaison de Appel is able to give participants a broader understanding and reinforce knowledge of current ‘curatorial practices in the public domain’ and ‘commissioning art in public space’ by plugging into the experience that SKOR has accumulated since 1994. This liaison entails the organisation by SKOR of several workshops on art in public space for CP participants, the continuous support by curators of SKOR to the CP participants in developing their final project, a financial contribution of SKOR to the realisation of the CP project, and the opportunity for one of the CP ex-participants to work as an assistant-curator at SKOR for one year (after finishing the programme). Previous participants of the Curatorial Programme that have successfully applied for this position are Christina Li and Yael Messer, respectively in the years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.

University of Amsterdam
In early 2009 Ann Demeester was invited by dr. Sophie Berrebi to participate in a course at the University of Amsterdam, entitled ‘Doing Modern and Contemporary Art’. In a series of seminars students are introduced to different practices in the field of contemporary art, such as art criticism, the art market, artistic practice and curatorial practice. The seminars on curatorial practice take place in four meetings, all hosted and made possible by Ann Demeester and Hendrik Folkerts, in dialogue with the Curatorial Programme. The seminars aim to offer different and varied perspectives on what curatorial practices (can) entail. This collaboration has been extended to the academic year of 2010/2011.Guest speakers have been Rein Wolfs, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Maria Hlavajova, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Paul O’Neill and Adam Szymczyk.  

H+F Curatorial Grant    
In September 2007 de Appel launched the H + F Grant, a stipendium that provides the opportunity for a young curator to work 18 months as a guest curator in the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunkerque (FR). The Grant was created in collaboration with the H + F Collection, the FRAC Nord Pas de Calais and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Initially, the grant was awarded annually to a ex-participant of the Curatorial Programme and made possible by the generous support of journalist, writer and collector Han Nefkens. In this manner de Appel can offer the (ex-)participants a far going confrontation with the professional field in the embodiment of ‘on-the-job-training’. In 2008 the first grant was awarded to Annette Schemmel, who used it to create the exhibition and publication “decollecting”, based on the collection of the FRAC and the H + F collection. In 2009 the H+F Grant has been made internationally accessible for young curators, electing Lumi Tan (US) to be the final candidate.  The H+F Curatorial Grant has been discontinued in 2011.