Deadline: 19-Sep-22
The Supporting Act Foundation has launched the Creative Bursary Program to provide an unrestricted creative bursary of €10,000 for ten undergraduate art students intended to help cover tuition fees, living costs, materials, and other related costs in the final year of their studies.
The Supporting Act Foundation provides grants to undergraduate students pursuing a career at the intersection of arts and technology who are currently experiencing any form of financial hardship, and who self-identify as coming from underrepresented or marginalized backgrounds.
This first pilot will only be available for students based in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, and Italy.
Aims
The aim is to give priority to applicants who self-identify as coming from underrepresented or marginalized groups, or who have experienced different forms of discrimination. This is why the foundation asks you to voluntarily answer the following questions, which will also help to learn about who is interested in the programs.
This grant program is built on insights collected through extensive research on the challenges that emerging artists are facing in Europe, and aims to address the areas on which the foundation is focused:
- reducing precariousness,
- fighting discrimination, and
- addressing vulnerability.
The Foundation is using an intersectional lens to prioritize supporting people who are underrepresented in the creative and cultural sector and have fewer opportunities to fulfill their creative potential.
The Supporting Act Foundation is committed to support individuals who are representative of different and diverse backgrounds and experiences, including but not limited to diversity of gender, ethnicity, religion, ability, and socioeconomic background.
Funding Information
- Ten bursaries of €10,000. To go toward tuition fees, living costs, study materials, or other educational costs.
Who should consider applying?
Students in the final year (2022–23) of any kind of undergraduate course
- Who are pursuing a career at the intersection of arts and technology
- Who are based in the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy
- Who self-identify as coming from underrepresented or marginalized groups
- Who are experiencing any form of financial hardship
Eligibility criteria
- Must be an undergraduate student in their final year (2022–23)
- Pursuing a career at the intersection of arts and technology
- Must be based in the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, or Italy
- Have an active bank account in one of these countries under their name
- Be at least 18 years old
- Experiencing financial hardship
- Priority to applicants who self-identify as coming from working-class backgrounds, or underrepresented and marginalized groups.
Ineligible
- Art projects or collectives
- organizations
For more information, visit https://thesupportingact.org/programs