Call for applications 2025: 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.
The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) requires that applicants familiarise themselves with the call for applications before filling in the application.
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.
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 presentations by special advisors.
Purpose
These grants are intended for professional artists and art journalists, as well as working groups formed by them, to cover work and costs during the period 1.7.2025–31.12.2026.
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. The same application can be used to apply for a grant to cover both work and costs.
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 work plan most closely involves.
These grants may be awarded to cover, for example:
- work
- material costs
- production costs
- travel costs
These grants are not awarded for:
- studies related to vocational qualifications, higher or lower university degrees, thesis work or related costs
- amateurs or recreational activities
- 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.
Applying for a grant to cover work
A grant may be awarded to cover the work of an individual or group within a single period as follows:
- 4 months work: 9 000 euros
- 5 months work: 11 250 euros
- 6 months work: 13 500 euros
In addition to work, you may apply with the same application for a grant to cover other costs. If the project involves less than four months of work, the work does not have to performed within a single period. The calculated monthly amount for work is 2,250 euros/month.
If the artistic work covered by the grant is performed within a single period lasting 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 performing artistic work 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 lasting 4–6 months if
- the applicant is awarded a public display grant (visual artists) or library grant (writers and translators) for 2025
- the applicant has been awarded a 6-month artist grant for 2025 beginning on 1.7.2025
- the applicant has been awarded an artist grant or other working grant for 2025 lasting more than 6 months (awarded by a body other than Taike)
- the applicant has been awarded a supplementary artist pension
Other paid employment during the grant period is permitted.
Applying as a working group
- 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 final report by the deadline.
Decision-making criteria
The awarding of grants is based on an evaluation, comparison and overall assessment of applications. When evaluating applications, the following four criteria are used together with additional questions, not all of which need to be fulfilled. There is no weighting in the decision-making criteria.
Equality and non-discrimination are taken into account in the decision-making process, as are the regional distribution and language of applicants and the amount of available funding.
When evaluating applications, the diversity of applicants is taken into consideration, including cultural and linguistic background. All grants are discretionary and there is no automatic right to them, even if all the criteria are fulfilled.
Evaluation criteria 1. Previous artistic merits of the applicant
- Is the applicant a professional? Are the members of the working group professionals?
- What are the merits of the applicant’s previous artistic works?
- How noteworthy is the applicant in their field of the arts?
Evaluation criteria 2. Quality of the work 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 work plan involve professional development, new ideas or methods?
Evaluation criteria 3. Quality and impact of the project
- Is the project plan interesting, clear and consistent?
- Is the artistic content of the project of high quality?
- 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
Evaluation criteria 4. Project financing
- How realistic is the project’s budget?
- Is the amount that has been applied for in proportion to the contents and scope of the project?
- Does the project have other financing?
General terms and conditions
- Grants awarded by Taike and other parties are taken into consideration when awarding grants.
- 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 the period 1.7.2025–31.12.2026.
- You can apply for a project grant with one application only, either as a private individual or as the contact person for a working group. Grants can be applied for from one region only. If you submit more than one application, only the newest one will be evaluated.
- The grant recipient must submit written clarification of how the grant was used at the end of the grant period.
What to include with your application?
- Mandatory for all applicants: CV of the artist or combined CV for the members of a working group.
- Applications related to works in the visual arts, design, illustrations and comics, or photographic art must also include 3 to 5 images of the artist’s works or a similar work sample as a single pdf file, including details about the name, technique, size and year of each work.
- For videos (for example, for cinema or media art), a link to the publishing platform with any passwords should be included. Remember to check the link to make sure it works.
- 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 and work samples required in the call for applications for evaluation purposes.
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 Decree (727/2012) on the Arts Promotion Centre Finland; the Act on 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 30 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 and Employment Services may 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.
All positive grant decisions made by Taike are published on the Tutkiavustuksia.fi service. The submission of decision information to the Tutkiavustuksia.fi service cannot be refused (Act on Discretionary Government Grants 688/2001 and Government Decree 1394/2022).
In addition, Taike publishes positive grant decisions on its own website. On the application form, you can select whether you consent to having your decision published on the Taike website.
Further information
Customer service, t. 0295 330 700
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