Deadline: 8-Nov-22
The Arts Promotion Centre Finland is seeking applications for its Project Grants.
Project grants are intended for individual projects made by professional artists.
Artist or expert in different fields of the arts can be awarded a project grant for international mobility and networking.
Funding Information
- The amount of the grant is no less than 2 500 euros.
- Artist or expert in different fields of the arts can be awarded a project grant for international mobility and networking.
Project grants may be used to cover, for example:
- Material costs
- Production costs
- Working costs
- Travel costs
Project grants are not awarded for:
- Undergraduate studies
- Amateurs or hobby-based projects
- Non-fiction literature.
Eligibility Criteria
An artist who is apply for an artist grant or working grant can be a self-employed entrepreneur, i.e. a private trader (“toiminimi” in Finnish) or a shareholder in a limited liability company. However, state artist grants are only awarded in the form of personal support for artistic work, i.e. to cover living costs. State artist grants are tax free, so personal grants may not be included in company earnings.
Criteria
- Decision-making criteria
- The awarding of grants is based on an evaluation, comparison and overall assessment of applications. When evaluating applications, the following three criteria and questions are used, not all of which need to be fulfilled. There is no weighting in the decision-making criteria. The regional distribution and language of applicants are taken into consideration, as is the amount of available funding. Equality and fair treatment are also taken into account. All grants are discretionary.
- Additional terms and conditions
- Grants awarded by other parties are taken into consideration when awarding grants.
- Grant recipients must use the grant during the year in which it was awarded or no later than during the following year.
- New grants shall not be awarded if previously awarded grants for same purpose have not been used.
- Grant recipients must submit written clarification of how the grant was used at the end of the grant period.
- Grant recipients may not transfer personal grant funds or those of a working group to the account of a company or community.
- Grants are awarded on condition that Parliament allocates the required appropriations in its annual State budget.
- Grant recipients must take out pension and accident insurance if they use the grant money to work for at least 4 months in a row. The insurance obligation also applies to those working on a grant within a working group. The insurance must be applied for within three months of the start of the grant period. Applications should be submitted to the Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution Mela.
- Grounds for not awarding a grant
- If the application is incomplete (if the required information has not been delivered to the Arts Promotion Centre Finland following a request for such information)
- If the applicant has not submitted written clarification of previously awarded grants before the given deadline.
- Grant decisions are subject to the Act (657/2012) and statute (727/2012) on Taiteen edistämiskeskus (only in Finnish); Discretionary Government Transfers (688/2001); and the Administrative Procedure Act (434/2003). The Arts Promotion Centre Finland monitors the use of grants and is entitled if necessary to review the finances and activities of the recipient.
For more information, visit https://www.taike.fi/en/grants-for-artists/-/stipend/9rRrDr7eX4Xl/viewStipend/11163
