Arts Council Malta: Programme Support Scheme

Deadline: 3-Jun-21

The Arts Council Malta is pleased to launch the Programme Support Scheme to support and maintain Malta’s creative and cultural ecology by enabling artists and cultural operators (whether they are organisations, collectives or freelance collaborations) to:

Restart their programming and production activity however possible
Operate in a sustainable manner even if circumstances require postponing the reopening of certain activities to the public.

This scheme will also enable compensation for any ticketed events forming part of the proposed programme which would have to operate below full seating capacity due to public health restrictions.

The compensation will be equal to the difference between the projected ticket sales in circumstances without public health restrictions and the projected ticket sales with the current public health restrictions (which may vary over time).

This will be calculated with a capping of €15 per ticket for each ticketed event.

Funding Information

Session budget: EUR 433,333
Maximum eligible amount per project: EUR 60,000

Eligibility Criteria

The Grant is open to undertakings (for which assistance will be granted in line with the de minimis Regulation), as well as those applicants that do not carry out an economic activity. Furthermore, applicants must qualify as one of the following:
- Creative professionals/individual artists
- Entities registered with the Malta Business Registry (including companies, partnerships, foundations and organisations/associations)
- Groups, Collectives and Consortia
- Registered Cooperatives
- Voluntary Organisations.
Applicants must be Maltese citizens; or be in possession of a Malta residence permit; or of a Maltese citizenship certificate; or of a Maltese passport.
The applicants and their programmes will also need to have a commitment towards:
- Work that inspires community cultural exchange and reaches a comprehensive range of people, engaging them as both audience and participants
- The promotion and upholding of the rights of cultural and creative practitioners including artists, to freedom of expression, intellectual property rights and favourable working conditions
- Championing cultural rights, as recognised in Article 5 of the 2001 UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity
- Environmentally friendly policies
- The overall sustainable development goal as implied by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development as “economic vitality, justice, social cohesion, environmental protection and the sustainable management of natural resources” thus ensuring that the needs of present and future generations are met.