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are: 200,000 to 1,000,000 PLN for a new development project; from
50,000 to 500,000 PLN for the renovation, extension or conversion
of a library building. The grant amount may not exceed 40% of the
proposed project costs. Priority operator: the Book Institute, Kraków,
www.bibliotekaplus.pl.
Digitisation. This priority aims to facilitate online access to digital
resources of Poland’s cultural heritage (including the heritage of
national and ethnic minorities). The target group are Poland’s residents,
especially those from rural areas and small towns. These activities
aim at helping set up a network of digitisation labs and digital
repositories, digitise cultural heritage resources, provide online access
to collections through digital museums, libraries, archives and
audiovisual online services and increase access to Polish museums,
libraries, archives and audiovisual collections. Grants are awarded
to national and local government-run cultural institutions, national
archives and film institutions. Grants are between 100,000 and
2,000,000 PLN (100% for national cultural institutions and national
archives, 80% for local government-run cultural institutions and
film institutions). Priority operator: the National Audiovisual Institute,
www.nina.gov.pl.
To find out more about Culture+, visit the Ministry of Culture
and National Heritage website at www.mkidn.gov.pl, and click on
Finanse.
Cultural Heritage is a programme of the Polish Ministry of
Culture and National Heritage that seeks to preserve Polish cultural
heritage at home and abroad, support museums and promote folk
culture. One of the programme’s priorities is to strengthen regional
identities by preserving, documenting and passing on elements of folk
culture and promoting folk culture. Grants are awarded for educational
tasks (workshops, courses and training related to regional culture);
culture animation tasks that support local communities’ art activities
related to local traditions; books on folk culture; tasks which involve
the documentation, archiving, providing access to and protection of
unique folk culture including folk art and handicraft, rural dialects,
music, dance, songs and rituals; tasks concerned with the promotion
of unique and vibrant elements of folk culture (folk art and handicraft
competitions and festivals); tasks which involve regional architecture
preservation; art-related tasks inspired by folk art; purchase of works
of folk art and collections for public exhibition; research and popularisation
projects in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnology and
ethnography.
Who can apply: local government-run cultural institutions (except
those co-run by the Polish Minister of Culture and National
Heritage), NGOs, churches and religious associations, businesses.
The minimum grant amount is 25,000 PLN. The grant amount may
not exceed 75% of the costs specified in the application. To find out
more, visit the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
at www.mkidn.gov.pl and click on the Finanse tab and the Programy
Ministra subsection).
Funds for local or regional projects may be sought from Cultural
Education and Culture Research, another programme of the Polish
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The programme is divided
into three priorities:
Cultural Education, which offers partial funding in two fields: education
and culture animation, and media education. Education and
culture animation tasks include: interdisciplinary tasks and tasks focused
on a chosen field of art intended to foster creativity and develop
skills; integration tasks that involve the cooperation of representatives
of various age groups and communities; tasks designed
to develop cultural staff’s animation and education skills (as well as
practical assignments which employ these skills). Media education
tasks include: tasks that aim to develop the ability of critical and creative
use of the means of social communication; tasks that include
the development, provision of license-free access to and piloting of
open cultural and media education resources. Who can apply: cultural
institutions run by local government (except those co-run by the
Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage), NGOs, churches
and religious associations, businesses. The minimum grant amount
is 30,000 PLN. The grant may not exceed 75% of the costs specified
in the application.
Arts Education, which offers grants for tasks focused on improving
art skills of young artists and students of art schools and universities
(including master classes, workshops and plein-air workshops)
and on presenting their effects (including competitions, festivals, exhibitions,
concerts and performances) to: art universities, public and
non-public art schools, NGOs and cultural institutions run by local
government. The minimum grant amount is 30,000 PLN. The grant
must not exceed 85% of the proposed project costs.
Culture Observatory, which offers grants to a variety of research
projects focused on social capital (designed to identify difficulties
in the development of attitudes that encourage cooperation,
communication and creativity among participants of the formal education
process as well as the needs and expectations of people and
organisations working in the fields of culture and arts – local government
units, cultural institutions, businessmen, NGOs, schools, universities,
artists, culture animators, cultural managers – concerning