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The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded general grants for cultural magazines and online publications for 2025. Grants were awarded to 20 magazines or online publications and four actors maintaining the availability and visibility of magazines. A total of 57 applications were received. The amounts awarded ranged from 10,000 euros to 73,000 euros.

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.

Public display grants to visual artists can be applied for using the new Applyforgrants.fi service as of next spring.

The Ministry of Education and Culture has introduced the Education and Culture Administration 2030 reform project, which aims to merge agencies. The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and the National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) would merge to form the Culture Agency of Finland (Kulttuurivirasto) at the beginning of 2026. At the same time, the structure of the arts councils would change. The consultation round on the draft legislation is open until 31 January 2025. Taike will organise an open webinar on the draft legislation on 15 January 2025.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded a total of 500,000 euros to art projects based on the “Percent for Art” principle. The grants were distributed geographically across Finland, from Loviisa to Kittilä.

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.

Work on preparing the legal amendments concerning the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and its arts councils is progressing on the basis of the consultation round that concluded in January. Taike will begin internal preparations regarding the restructuring of its arts council during March. The opinions submitted on the draft legislation raised concerns related to the autonomy of the arts, peer reviews and regional equality. These are also key issues to be addressed from Taike’s perspective.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has decided on supplementary artist pensions starting in early 2025. Supplementary artist pensions are intended to supplement the artist’s pension security. The number of applications has increased in recent years. For the first time, less than 8 percent of applicants will receive a supplementary artist pension.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded 500,000 euros in special subsidies to a total of nine communities for 2025. The new types of development subsidies were awarded, for example, to projects aimed at uniting communities and creating new operating models for different fields of the arts.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded 4,017,000 euros in grants to festivals for 2025. A total of 203 applications were received by the deadline, and 85 festivals were awarded grants.

Here we answer frequently asked questions regarding this autumn’s calls for applications.

The national arts councils of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) have awarded state prizes for 2024 to distinguished artists and art communities. State prizes are awarded in recognition of outstanding artistic work within the past three years, a long meritorious artistic career, or a contribution to a specific artform. The combined value of the state prizes is 250,000 euros.