Deadline: 31-Aug-23
The Acción Cultural Española AC/E is accepting applications for the Programme for Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE).
Purpose
- The purpose of this call is the international dissemination of Spanish culture through the overseas promotion of emerging artists, creators, and professionals from Spain. The specific aims are defined in the following:
- To make the wealth and artistic quality of Spain’s emerging contemporary creation visible overseas.
- To consolidate and extend the presence of emerging creators, both nationals and residents in Spain, in the international arena and to encourage their promotion and recruitment.
- To boost and facilitate connectivity and solid and permanent relationships with international organisations that increase the visibility of Spain’s art and culture overseas.
- To be committed to fulfilling the 2030 Agenda objectives, in particular concerning gender quality, reducing inequalities, sustainable development, and climate action.
- To foster actions in countries of strategic interest to AC/E.
- To pursue the excellence of the Programme by focusing on the prestige of the host institutions, the quality of the projects and the coherence between these and the economic cost they entail.
Scope of Action and Sectorial Targets
- Applications may only be submitted by foreign cultural entities and institutions belonging to any of the following areas:
- Architecture & design
- Visual Arts
- Film
- Dance & circus
- Literature & books
- Music
- Theatre
- Videogame & animation
- Proposals from other areas, other institutions or private individuals will not be accepted.
- In accordance with AC/E’s strategic lines, in this call priority will be given to events held in the following countries:
- China, on the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relationships with the country.
- The United States, due to its strategic interest for geopolitical reasons.
- France, on the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso´s demise.
- Italy, on the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome.
- Morocco, due to its strategic interest.
- Mexico, due to its strategic interest.
- Ukraine, in accordance with the supporting politics to the country by the UE.
Funding Information
- The applicant organisation may submit its application in accordance with the following budgetary limits:
- The organisation may apply for up to a maximum of 15,000 Euros per annual call, event and area.
- Within the limits of the aforementioned point, the organisation may request up to a maximum of 5,000 Euros per participant or group, Spanish or resident in Spain
- The 2023 annual general call for the Mobility Programme is endowed with a maximum budget of 1.200.000 Euros. The distribution among the call’s various thematic areas is detailed:
- Architecture & design: 75.000 euros
- Visual arts – 150.000 euros
- Film – 200.000 euros
- Dance & circus – 150.000 euros
- Literature & books – 225.000 euros
- Music – 225.000 euros
- Theatre – 100.000 euros
- Videogame & animation – 75.000 euros
This distribution is tentative and could be modified according to the budgetary needs of the call.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications for Spanish artists, professionals, and cultural creators to participate in overseas activities supported by the PICE-Mobility programme may only be made by overseas cultural entities and institutions, public or private, that are legally and fiscally constituted in the country of residence of the applicant, with the capacity to issue commercial invoices.
- These institutions will belong to the field of architecture and design, visual arts, film, dance and circus, literature and books, music, theatre or videogame and animation. Proposals from other areas or from other institutions or private individuals will not be accepted.
- The applicant entities must provide a document accrediting:
- Their legal status.
- The organisation of the activity for which the support has been applied for.
- The application for the financial incentive.
- Whether there are other institutions co-participating in the organisation of the event.
- This document shall be sent in the language in which it was originally written. If such language is other than English or Spanish, a translation into one of these languages, signed by the representatives of the organisation shall be supplied. The applicant takes responsibility for the veracity of this translation.
- This call´s field of action excludes events related to being present at seminars, conferences, meetings, and in particular academic meetings.
- Applicant organisations must fill out the form published on the AC/E website to participate in the specific call for the Mobility Programme.
- The artistic proposals submitted, in other words, each one of the Spanish national or resident, participants or groups, for which the allowance is requested, must have a co-financing commitment from the applicant equivalent to at least 50% of the proposal for which the allowance is requested This means that the applicant organisation cannot request AC/E for more than 50 percent of the budget it has for that artistic proposal. Applicants must expressly confirm this commitment to cofinancing so that their applications can be considered.
For more information, visit https://www.accioncultural.es/en/mobility-2023