Deadline: 15-Jul-25
The Arts Council Malta has launched The President’s Fund for Creativity aimed at strengthening inclusivity, community development, and well-being through cultural participation and creative expression by supporting projects and programmes.
The fund forms part of a diverse portfolio of schemes and initiatives to maximise the potential of Malta’s creative growth by encouraging engagement in the cultural sectors, facilitating cultural exchange, and championing cultural rights.
The fund provides recognition and support at the highest level of the state to exciting initiatives built on the values of equity, diversity, inclusiveness, and sustainability in the sector of culture and the arts and in the social sector respectively—especially those working with disadvantaged groups, to engage the groups in creativity and arts-driven projects and increase their level of integration and engagement in society.
The fund is specifically linked to important priorities articulated in the Council’s ongoing strategy, namely, to invest in:
- A wider spectrum of quality work that inspires community cultural exchange and engages with a broader range of people—both as participants and audience.
- Artists and organisations that promote cultural diversity and address cultural inclusion and accessibility.
- Championing cultural rights.
Aims
- The President’s Fund for Creativity aims at:
- Supporting organisations and institutions that target the social needs and well-being of the community, especially disadvantaged and hardly-reached groups—with a special emphasis on children, youth, senior citizens, disabled people, and people with different ethnic backgrounds—through cultural participation and creative expression.
- Providing disadvantaged groups with accessibility to a wide range of quality art experiences and art-engagement activities, as well as acting as a platform for young promising talent and intergenerational as well as intercultural dialogue.
- Incentivising the contribution of organisations active in the arts and culture sector towards community development and collaborative arts projects.
Sectors
- Activities falling 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, antiques)
- Media (publishing and printed material, audiovisuals, including film and video production, film servicing, television, video games, radio, online media)
Funding Information
- Session Budget: €160,000
- Maximum eligible amount per project: €15,000 per project
Duration
- Minimum eligible timeframe to implement the project: 12 months.
- Maximum eligible timeframe to implement the project: 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be working in the field of social and community development, or active in any cultural and creative field to be eligible. The project must target the needs of disadvantaged groups through arts, creative expression, and cultural participation.
- The fund offers two options: a state aid option and a non-State aid option. The State aid option is available to undertakings that carry out an economic activity within the meaning of Article 107 TFEU, for which assistance will be granted in line with the de minimis Regulation. The non-State aid option is available to those applicants that do not carry out an economic activity within the meaning of Article 107 TFEU as well as to proposed projects that would not involve such an economic activity.
- Furthermore, applicants must qualify as one of the following:
- Entities registered with the Malta Business Registry (including companies, partnerships, foundations, and organisations/associations);
- Groups, collectives, and consortia;
- Registered cooperatives;
- Educational institution offering formal and informal education;
- Public institutions;
- Voluntary organisations enrolled with the Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following cannot apply:
- Applicants whose profile is not verified due to it being incomplete;
- Applicants who do not qualify under the definition of applicant for this specific fund;
- Beneficiaries who have not honoured previous funding commitments;
- Beneficiaries who did not submit or complete a final report related to a previous grant funded by Arts Council Malta within the established timeframes;
- Individual applicants.
For more information, visit Arts Council Malta.