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”Meet Our Funding Recipients” is a series of articles that introduces you to artists, working groups and communities who have received funding from Taike. In these interviews, funding recipients discuss their art and the projects they have been able to implement with the support of funding.

You can filter the grant and prizes awarded by Taike by year, artform or region, for example.

During 2020–2022, Taike distributed a total of 130 million euros in COVID-19 support to artists, professionals in the creative sectors, private traders and sole proprietors, and art associations. Altogether there were seven application rounds. More than 43,000 applications were received in total, and more than 25,000 applicants received positive decisions. Overall, 58% of applicants received funding.

Taike’s Creative Net project is organising workshops for further developing ideas and expertise in the arts, culture and creative sectors. These workshops will offer support, sparring and networking opportunities.

Particularly distinguished art professionals may be awarded recognition for their work in the form of the title Art Academic or Artist Professor.

Project grants for the arts are intended for arts professional and working groups formed by them for individual projects. Private traders may also apply. The application period for project grants for the arts is in autumn.

Taike grants are intended for professional activities. Grants are awarded either as general grants for ongoing operations or as project grants for specific projects. Taike grants can be applied for using the Applyforgrants.fi service under the new Finnish Arts and Culture Agency name.

The purpose of the register is to distribute Taike’s press releases.

Taike is organising an online webinar on MYEL insurance and unemployment security for grant recipients together with Mela and Kela.

How can we ensure that the built environment and public art are accessible to everyone now and in the future? “Forming the future for all" seminar will address diversity and power in relation to the accessibility of urban environments and art.

Taike will hold an info briefing on the outlook for discretionary government grants in 2025 on Friday 6 September at 11–12. The info briefing will be held online as a webinar.

Publishers and foreign and minority language writers will have the chance to meet at the Turku Book Fair on 4 October 2024. The programme also includes a panel discussion that will be open to the public.