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Regional grants and artist grants awarded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) can be applied for during the period 1 March – 3 April 2024. A few changes have been made to these grants compared to last year. Artists can now apply for a regional grant to cover work and expenses using the same application. Regional grants can be applied for from one region and with one application only. For artist grants, it is no longer possible to apply for a ten-year Artist Professor grant.

Library grants for writers and translators and public display grants for visual artists for 2024 could be applied for from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) until 31 January. Altogether 1270 applications for library grants and 1241 applications for public display grants are now being processed. The number of applications was at the same level as last year.

The Ministry of Finance has today published its draft budget for 2025. The proposal includes cuts to discretionary government grants for the arts and culture. It appears that there will be no cuts to artist grants or artist pensions.

The first call for applications for projects within the national Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise ESF+ theme was open from 15 March to 15 May 2023. The processing of applications is ongoing, and the ELY Centre for Häme will decide on projects to be funded during November-December.

Decisions on special subsidies for cultural activities in sparsely populated rural areas and most artist grant decisions will be sent to applicants by the end of June. Taike’s customer service will be closed 30 June to 31 July.

Project grants awarded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) in different artforms can be applied for this month, 1–30 November. A few changes have been made to the call for applications for project grants compared to last year. Artists can apply for a project grant with one application only and for one project only. Taike has also provided new guidelines regarding the amount of work covered by a project grant.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) is looking to hire an Internationalisation Expert on a fixed-term basis for the period 1 January 2024 to 30 June 2025. The Internationalisation Expert will coordinate and prepare the strategy process of the agency’s international activities.

Funding within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise ESF+ theme has been awarded to nine projects after the first application round. The selected projects cover such areas as sustainable culture tourism, the audiovisual sector, music and the visual arts. The next call for applications will be announced in the second half of 2024.

The theme of this year’s Arts and Culture Barometer is the different types of work performed by artists. We invite professional artists in different fields of the arts to respond to our open online survey. Respond to the survey by 15 October!

On 14 May, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) organised an info briefing on the priorities and future development needs of subsidies for communities. The key takeaways from the info briefing are summarised below.

This spring, the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) have continued preparing for the restructuring of Taike’s arts councils. The background to the restructuring is the external evaluation of Taike (Agency Taking Shape) published in 2021, the related hearings and the opinion rounds held in autumn 2023.

In February, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) requested nominations for candidates to its national and regional arts councils for the 2025–2026 term from significant actors in the arts sector. The deadline for nominations was 31 May 2024.