Deadline: 14-Oct-2025
The Malta Arts Council is accepting applications for its Micro Grant Program to address and implement the current strategy of the Arts Council Malta, with the aim of nurturing creative potential and supporting its development into professional activity.
The Micro Grant aims to provide a support structure that encourages new applicants to access public investment and is targeted at applicants who have not received any funding from the KMA funding portfolio in the last three years.
The Micro Grant allows individual artists and creative professionals to develop artistic work that will help them advance in their profession. The Micro Grant is a one-time grant designed to support capacity-building elements such as support services, equipment, materials, and space that are directly linked to a project, activity, or event that will be held during the eligible timeframe of this grant. Activities that fall within the cultural and creative sector: Arts (literature, visual arts, music, performing arts, interdisciplinary); Creative Business Services (design, architecture, cultural tourism and cultural services); Heritage (crafts, traditional festivals and celebrations, cultural sites, antiquities); Media (published and printed material, audiovisual, including film and video production, film service, television, video games, radio, online media). Proposals will first be screened against the terms of technical eligibility. Proposals that are ineligible under the terms of the points listed below will not be processed further and will not be evaluated. Maximum timeline to complete the project: 12 months.
For this session, the budget allocated is EUR 100,000, with the maximum eligible amount for each project capped at EUR 3,000. The grant may cover up to 100% of eligible costs that directly lead to a final artistic product. These may include rental or purchase of equipment, short-term rental of spaces, digitization or printing of artistic catalogues or artworks, fees for support services such as scriptwriters, digital artists, accompanying musicians, audio and audiovisual media recording, as well as the purchase of materials. However, certain costs are not eligible for funding. These include the applicant’s own artistic fees, reimbursement of salaries, retrospective costs, subsistence and hospitality, costs already covered by operational budgets, costs covered by other state-funded programmes, and those that do not lead to a final artistic product.
Eligibility for the Micro Grant is open to Maltese citizens, holders of a residence permit in Malta, individuals with a certificate of Maltese citizenship, or holders of a Maltese passport. It is also open to undertakings carrying out an economic activity under Article 107 TFEU, with aid granted under the de minimis Regulation. Applicants must not have benefited from KMA funding schemes between 2023 and 2025. Applications require an artistic biography or CV, a VAT registration certificate, and cost estimates, with optional inclusion of media or work samples.
Certain applicants cannot apply, including those with incomplete profiles lacking mandatory documents, applicants outside the scheme’s definition, and those with previous unresolved commitments or missing reports from past grants. Additionally, proposals linked to public funds, political propaganda, or regular annual events are not eligible. Applications for contests, competitions, scholarships, or training programmes required for license renewals are also excluded. Projects that fall outside the eligible timeframe or have been completed before notification of results will not be considered.
Applications submitted after the deadline, incomplete applications, and activities not related to culture, arts, and creative industries are automatically ineligible. This ensures that the grant is directed towards fresh, innovative initiatives that genuinely contribute to the growth of Malta’s creative and cultural sector. The deadline for applications is 14 October 2025.
For more information, visit The Malta Arts Council.
