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Are you seeking perspectives on reducing your digital carbon footprint in creative work? In the AVARA webinar, Alice Bonnot from Julie's Bicycle will guide you through the themes of Sustainable Digital Creativity. The webinar serves as a preview event for the AVARA – Art & Tech <3 Sustainability event.

This info briefing will discuss the principles of council work and the appointment process itself, and members who have served on arts councils will be interviewed about their council work.

Taike will host a webinar on Tuesday 11 November starting at 3pm covering this autumn’s call for applications for project grants for the arts. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to this year’s call for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

Taike will host a webinar on Wednesday 12 November starting at 3pm covering this autumn’s call for applications for project grants for the arts. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to this year’s call for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

The system of peer reviews for the arts will be renewed on 1 July 2026, and the arts councils that have thus far made grant decisions will be discontinued. They will be replaced by a pool of experts and rotating grant assessment panels. Welcome to our online status report on the progress of preparations on Tuesday 11 November, 11am–12noon.

Taike will be holding two webinars this October to discuss this autumn’s calls for applications for grants available to communities. The first webinar will cover the following forms of support: general grants for festivals, general grants for cultural magazines and online publications, project grants for "Percent for Art" projects, internationalisation grants for the arts, and general grants for the arts.

Taike will be holding two webinars this October to discuss this autumn’s calls for applications for grants available to communities. The second webinar will cover project grants for culture and general grants for culture.

Taike will be holding an English-language webinar on Tuesday 14 October from 4pm to 5pm to discuss this autumn’s calls for applications for grants available to communities. The webinar will explain the changes that have been made to this year’s calls for applications and provide tips on how to apply.

We fund the arts and culture through grants for artists and communities. Grants for artists are awarded to individuals and working groups, while grants for communities are awarded to registered communities. Grants can be applied using the Applyforgrants.fi service under the new Finnish Arts and Culture Agency name.

National arts councils award half-year artist grants, as well as one-year, three-year and five-year artist grants, to support the work of professional artists. Calls for applications for artist grants are announced in spring, and the grant period begins the following year.

Library grants for writers and translators are intended for writers of fiction, writers of non-fiction and translators of literature who are currently living or have permanently lived in Finland. The application period for library grants is in January.