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The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and Mela, the Farmers' Social Insurance Institution of Finland, are organising an online info briefing on pension and accident insurance, a legal obligation for recipients of working grants that are awarded for a period of four months or more.

On Tuesday 5 November at 10am, Taike is organising a one-hour info briefing for professional artists and working groups about this autumn’s call for applications for project grants. The online webinar will discuss basic principles and provide tips on how to apply.

This October, Taike is organising one-hour info briefings for communities applying for grants and subsidies. There will be two of these online webinars for the different forms of support. The first webinar will discuss the following types of subsidies: subsidies for promoting cultural diversity and combating racism, subsidies for promoting inclusion and cultural wellbeing, special subsidies for communities, and operational subsidies for specific artforms.

Taike will host a webinar in Finnish covering this autumn’s grant applications on Wednesday 4 October from 2pm to 3:30pm. The webinar will go through which grants individuals and working groups can apply for and offer tips on how to apply.

Taike will host a webinar in Finnish covering this autumn’s subsidy applications on Wednesday 4 October from 11am to 12:30pm. The webinar will go through which subsidies communities can apply for and offer tips on how to apply.

Taike will host a webinar in English covering grant and subsidy applications on Friday 6 October from 11am to 12:30pm. The webinar will go through which grants individuals and working groups can apply for and which subsidies are intended for communities. The webinar will also offer tips on how to apply for Taike grants and subsidies.

Taike’s Creative Net project provides sparring and workshops for those interested in funding within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise theme (ESF+). Our sparring and workshops provide useful perspectives on clarifying project ideas, co-development and project communications. Events will be held across Finland this autumn.

AVARA – Art & Tech <3 Sustainability event brings together artists and creators interested in digitality and sustainability. AVARA is an annual event organized by the Centre for Arts Innovation (CAI) at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences, co-hosted this year with the Arts Promotion Centre Finland’s Creative Net project (ESF+).

Finnish Arts and Culture Agency will host a webinar on Wednesday 14 January starting at 3pm covering this year’s call for applications for public display grants and library grants for writers and translators. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to the calls for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

The Eloon! tour organised by Creative Net and Suomen Yrittäjät – the Federation of Finnish Enterprises arrives in Rauma on 28–29 October. The theme of the event is “Year-round collaboration in Rauma”. On the tour, professionals from the business and creative sectors get the chance to collaborate and come up with creative solutions to the challenges of regional vitality.

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 Wednesday 19 November, 11am–12noon.

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.