Deadline: 25-Feb-21
The Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic as the Programme Operator for the Cultural entrepreneurship, cultural heritage and cultural cooperation Programme has launched the Small Grant Scheme Call CLT03 on support of the capacity development of cultural players and audience development addressing contemporary art and culture.
The objective of the call is to find projects on capacity development of cultural players and audience development addressing contemporary art and culture, as well as the promotion of bilateral exchange of contemporary art activities. The main ambition is to support high quality and professional contemporary arts activities that constitute the core of cultural and creative industries and creative economy and contribute to intelligent, sustainable and inclusive society growth.
The programme and the call will support diverse activities within individual art fields (i.e. performing arts, visual art, music, and literature), reflection of arts and culture, and/or interdisciplinary artistic and theoretical activities within cultural and creative sector.
The programme will mainly support activities aimed at innovative creation, presentation and reflection of arts, with special emphasis on the audience development and involvement of the audience (with a developed entrepreneurship/communication strategy based on knowledge of the target group needs).
Funding Information
- Maximum grant to be applied for: EUR 200,000
- Minimum grant to be applied for: EUR 50,000
- Total allocation: EUR 1,500,000
Eligible Activities
In line with the state aid rules and taking into account the focus of this Call, the project grant can be used for the following cultural purposes and activities:
- activities of artistic and cultural centres or spaces, theatres, cinemas, opera houses, concert halls, other live performance organisations, film heritage institutions and other similar artistic and cultural infrastructures, organisations and institutions;
- art or cultural events and performances, festivals, exhibitions and other similar cultural activities;
- cultural and artistic education activities as well as promotion of the understanding of the importance of protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions through educational and greater public awareness programs, including with the use of new technologies;
- writing, editing, production, distribution, digitisation and publishing of music and literature, including translations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any entity, public or private, commercial or non-commercial and nongovernmental organisations, established as a legal person in Slovakia, whose principal activity is in the cultural and creative sectors as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1295/20134 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020), provided that the applicant has at least one mandatory partner.
- Natural persons are not eligible.
For more information, visit https://www.eeagrants.sk/en/calls/call-on-the-support-of-contemporary-art-and-culture-clt03/