Deadline: 6-May-22
The Arts Council Malta is inviting application for Arts Education Scheme Mainstream Education to sustain and support the recovery of the cultural and creative ecology, with a focus on arts education.
The Scheme forms part of the Council’s commitment to engage educators and creative practitioners in dialogue and collaboration, with the aim to encourage students and educators towards further engagement within the creative and cultural sectors.
The scheme encourages collaborations between an educational institution and a creative practitioner for each project.
Objectives
The objectives of the scheme are:
- To bring creative practitioners into schools and education institutions to work with educators and students to inspire, learn and create in a collaborative and innovative way
- To support joint projects designed and implemented collaboratively and simultaneously between educational institutions and creative practitioners
- To support projects which complement the curriculum for early years up to secondary education and strive to add value to the learning experience and to the institutions’ environments
- To champion innovation and collaboration across fields and encourage students to push the boundaries of creative arts within post-secondary and tertiary institutions
- To encourage collaboration between educational institutions, the culture and creative industries, and other relevant sectors such as science and technology.
Funding Information
- There is a ceiling amount of €5,000 per project to be allocated. This will be decided on a caseby-case basis depending on the project.
Activities
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).
Eligibility Criteria
- The Grant is open to educational institutions or college offering formal education from Early Years Cycle to Tertiary Education.
- The applicants must be a Maltese citizens or be in possession of a Malta residence permit or of a Maltese citizenship certificate or of a Maltese passport. Applicants must be active in formal education in one or more creative fields as defined in Section 2.
- The applicant shall assign a staff member or one of the collaborators as project coordinator to act as liaison person with Arts Council Malta and be responsible for project implementation. The applicant may also use funds to engage an external coordinator.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applicants whose profile is not verified due to it being an incomplete profile for not having the below mandatory documents:
- a copy of a Maltese ID card (front and back sides) or your Maltese, residence permit or your Maltese citizenship certificate or a Maltese passport; a signed statute in the case of a voluntary organisation.
- Applicants who do not qualify under the definition of applicant for this specific scheme.
- Beneficiaries who have not honoured previous funding commitments.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncilmalta.org/pages/funds-opportunities/schemes-2022/arts-education-scheme-mainstream-education/
