Call for applications 2024: Regional grants
The deadline for submitting applications is 16:00 (4:00pm) on the last day of the application period. This is the absolute deadline by which time Taike must receive the application.
Grant applications may be submitted online during the application period.
Intended recipients
These grants are intended for professional artists and art journalists, as well as working groups formed by them. Private traders (“toiminimi”) may also apply for a grant to cover expenses, but not work.
A professional artist is one who creates, performs or interprets art as their primary or secondary occupation. A professional artist has an education in a specific field of the arts or otherwise acquired professional expertise in the arts.
Who decides
Grant decisions are made by regional arts councils based on a presentation by special advisor.
Purpose
These grants are intended for professional artists and art journalists, as well as working groups formed by them, to cover work and expenses during the period 2024–2025. Eligible expenses may be incurred during the period 1.1.2024–31.12.2025. Grant work may begin no earlier than 1.7.2024.
You can apply for a grant with one application only, either as an individual or as the contact person for a working group. You can apply from one region only. If you submit more than one application, only the newest application will be processed.
In addition to one personal application, you can also be included in other applications as a member of a working group.
Select the artform that your working plan most closely involves.
These grants may be awarded to cover, for example:
- work
- material expenses
- production expenses
- travel expenses
These grants are not awarded for
- studies or thesis work related to vocational qualifications or higher or lower university degrees or related expenses
- amateurs or hobby-based projects
- non-fiction literature (for grants in the field of literature)
The minimum amount of each grant is 2500 euros. Previously awarded grants are listed on the Taike website by region under Awarded Grants and Subsidies.
Note about work if you apply as an individual
You may apply for a grant to cover your own artistic work up to 13,200 euros, which corresponds to six months of work. The amount of the grant is based on 2,200 euros/month.
Artistic work lasting four months or longer must be performed in one period. You may also apply for a grant to cover other expenses in addition to your own work.
If the grant is awarded for a period of at least four months, you must take out pension insurance in accordance with the Farmers’ Pension Act (MYEL), which also covers grant recipients. The insurance obligation also applies to those working on a grant as a member of a working group. The insurance must be applied for within three months of payment of the grant. Insurance applications should be submitted to the Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution Mela. Further information can be found on the Mela website.
These grants are not awarded for artistic work if:
- the applicant has been awarded an artist grant from Taike beginning on 1.7.2024
- the applicant already has a working grant for 2024 lasting at least 6 months awarded by a body other than Taike
- the applicant has been awarded a supplementary State artist pension
Other paid employment during the grant period is permitted.
Applying as a working group
Working groups can apply for a grant to cover work and expenses.
The application must be made by the contact person for the working group. The names of the other members of the working group must be included in the application. The contact person should include with the application a short description of the artistic activities of each member of the working group. Each member of the working group is responsible for how the grant funds are spent and for providing clarification. The contact person for the working group is responsible for submitting the clarification by the deadline.
Decision-making criteria
The awarding of grants is based on an evaluation and comparison of applications, as well as an overall assessment. When evaluating applications, the following criteria and questions are used:
Previous artistic merits of the applicant
- Is the applicant a professional? Are the members of the working group professionals?
- What is the quality of the applicant’s previous artistic work?
- How noteworthy is the applicant in his/her field of the arts?
Quality of the working plan
- How clear and strong is the artistic idea on which the working plan is based?
- How long-term, well-planned and feasible is the artistic work?
- Does the working plan involve professional development, new ideas or methods?
Quality and impact of the project
- How interesting are the project plan and its objectives?
- What is the quality of the project’s artistic content?
- How does the project encourage an understanding of or discussion about art?
- What is the impact of the project regionally, nationally or internationally?
- What kinds of ideas and operating models does the project offer to the field of the arts, artists and audiences?
- What kinds of cooperation partners does the project have?
- How realistic is the project in terms of implementation?
Project financing
- How realistic is the project’s budget?
- How essential is the grant for implementing the project?
- Is the amount that has been applied for in proportion to the contents and scope of the project?
- Does the project have other financing?
The regional distribution and language of applicants are taken into consideration, as is the amount of allocated funding. Equality and fair treatment are also taken into account, as are the special characteristics of cultural and linguistic minorities. All grants are discretionary, i.e. there is no subjective right to them, even if all the criteria are fulfilled.
General terms and conditions
- Grants awarded by other parties are taken into consideration when awarding grants.
- New grants shall not be awarded if previously awarded grants for same purpose have not been used.
- The grant recipient may not transfer personal grant funds or those of a working group to the account of a company or community.
- The grant recipient must use the grant during 2024–2025.
- The grant recipient must submit written clarification of how the grant was used and an expense report at the end of the grant period.
- Grants can be applied for from one region and with one application only. If you submit more than one application, only the newest application will be processed.
What to include with your application
- Mandatory for all applicants: CV of the artist or combined CV for the members of a working group.
- Applicants working in the visual arts (including architecture, visual arts, media art, design, illustrations and comics, photographic art) must also include 3 to 5 images of their works or similar work sample as a single pdf file, including details about the name, technique, size and year of each work. For videos, a link to the publishing platform with any passwords should be included.
- The maximum file size is 4 MB.
In addition, you may also include two more attachments that are relevant to your application. The file names should describe the content.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that attachments contain the information required in the call for applications.
Grounds for disqualification
- If the application arrives after the application deadline. Applications must be received by Taike no later than 4:00pm on the last day of the application period.
- If the application is incomplete.
- If the applicant has not submitted written clarification of previously awarded Taike grants before the given deadline.
Grant decisions are subject to the Act (657/2012) and statute (727/2012) on Taiteen edistämiskeskus (only in Finnish); Discretionary Government Transfers (688/2001); and the Administrative Procedure Act (434/2003). Taike monitors the use of grants and is entitled if necessary to review the finances and activities of the recipient.
How to apply
Log in and fill in the application online (user interface in Finnish)
To log in you will need eBanking identifiers, a mobile certificate or an electronic ID card.
Instructions for using online services
If you are unable to use our online services, please contact Taike’s customer service.
Notification of decision
All applicants will be notified of the decision in writing by the end of June. Applicants will be informed by e-mail when the decision can be accessed from our online services. If you do not receive the e-mail to your inbox, remember to check also your junk mail folder. Applicants are responsible for checking their e-mail messages on the address supplied in the application.
Publicity of applications
Applications submitted to Taike are public documents, about which everyone is entitled to receive information according to Finnish law (Act on the Openness of Government Activities 621/1999). For example, the media can request to view applications. Taike does not disclose confidential information. Matters related to a person's privacy, for example contact information and matters related to health and financial situation, are always confidential. Work plans are also confidential to the extent that they contain information considered to be business secrets, such as artistic ideas.
Taike submits information about all grant decisions for publication on the tutkiavustuksia.fi website (Act on Discretionary Government Grants 688/2001 and Government Decree 1394/2022). Applicants can choose when applying whether they consent to the publication of the decision on the Taike website. The submission of decision information to the Tutkiavustuksia.fi service cannot be refused, however, even if the applicant has not given consent to the publication of their name on the Taike website. For grant applications made by individuals, only positive grant decisions are published on the service.
Further information
Customer service
t. 0295 330 700
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