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The Finnish Government has submitted its proposal for the 2025 Budget to Parliament. Appropriations for discretionary government grants awarded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) will be cut by approximately EUR 1.9 million. In addition, the previously budgeted EUR 3 million for the performing arts related to the reform of government transfers is no longer included in the State Budget. In total, Taike’s appropriations will be approximately EUR 4.9 million less than in 2024.

The amount of state appropriations allocated for Taike grants and subsidies in 2024 has been cut by 5 percent compared to 2023. Nevertheless, the renewal of all fields of the arts will continue to be supported. Decisions for this autumn’s calls for applications will be made in stages by the end of March 2024.

Do you have a project idea for arts development cooperation that you want to develop? Are you keen to get ideas and opinions from peers in the field?

The Ministry of Education and Culture has appointed Risto Aakko, Head of Administration, as Acting Director of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland for the period from 1 March to 31 May 2018.

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The Ministry of Education and Culture has appointed members to the Board for Grants and Subsidies to Writers and Translators for the 2024–2026 term. The new Chairperson is museum director Terhi Pietiläinen, who previously served as a member of the board. The new Deputy Chairperson is writer Joni Pyysalo.

The National Council for the Performing Arts has awarded artist grants beginning in 2024. Artist grants were awarded to 42 artists.

Regional grants and artist grants can be applied for from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) in March-April. The grant period for regional grants has changed: the period during which they can be used will start in July 2025.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and the Ministry of Education and Culture appointed an Advisory Board for the Creative Economy on 3 December 2024 with the aim of promoting the growth and internationalisation of Finland’s creative industries. The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) is represented on the Advisory Board by Director Kaisa Rönkkö (Member), Head of Arts Support Henri Terho (Personal Deputy Member) and Internationalisation Expert Maria Pirkkalainen-Barber (Member of Secretariat).

ESF+ funding within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise theme is available for projects that strengthen skills and employment in the arts and cultural sector or the creative sector and the creative economy. The next application round for such projects will be from 13 January to 31 March 2025. The new application round offers the possibility to apply for smaller funding also for one-off experiments. The funding will be awarded by the ELY Centre for Häme. Creative Net supports and spars those seeking funding.

Booster is a new peer group model to support mental wellbeing that has been developed as part of the Mental Health Toolkit project. It is intended to promote the work ability of self-employed people, freelancers, grant recipients and sole proprietors in the arts, culture and events sectors.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded 13.8 million euros in operational subsidies for specific artforms to art communities in 2025. Altogether 193 art communities throughout Finland have been awarded an operational subsidy. Due to the budget situation and Taike’s strategic priorities, there have been more changes affecting recipients and amounts in the decisions than in previous years.