Culture and Art Programme gives support to projects in all fields of culture and art. The programme supports both artists and cultural operators from the professional and amateur sectors. When assessing applications from the amateur culture and volunteer sector, priority is given to projects that are carried out in cooperation with professionals.
The most important assessment criteria are quality and innovative character of the project.
The programme is divided into two modules.
Production-based activities
The module is meant for projects that centre on culture and art productions and creative work. The key word is innovation, which means the development and testing of new ideas, concepts and processes.
Capacity development
The module is meant for projects that centre on sharing of knowledge and capacity development among artists and cultural operators. These can involve, for example, seminars, courses and workshops.
The framework budget for the Culture and Art Programme for 2010 is 2 012 215 EUR (DKK 14 991 000).
The Advisor for the programme is Annu Kevarinmäki.