Personal grants for professional artists

Applications for the 2026 personal grant for professional artists must be submitted by January 30, 2026, at 3:45 p.m.
The personal grant for professional artists can be awarded to a professional artist residing in Tampere. The grants are small-scale incentive grants aimed at supporting work in the field of art. The amount of the grant is usually around 1 000–3 000 euros.
In 2026, grants will be awarded to artists working in the fields of visual arts (i.e. visual arts, photography, cinematography, architecture and design) as well as children’s culture.
The awarding of incentive grants for professional artists follows the general principles for subsidies and grants of the City of Tampere (City Board 13 January 2025, § 8) and the criteria for awarding cultural subsidies of the City of Tampere (Culture and Leisure Committee 13 November 2024, § 135).
The general principles and award criteria can be downloaded and printed here: https://www.tampere.fi/en/city-supports-and-rewards/grants

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THE APPLICATION:
All sections of the grant application must be filled in.
Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory and must be completed in order to proceed with the form.
The application must include a plan for how the grant will be used, a cost estimate, a schedule, and a description of the applicant’s previous activities. These details can be entered directly in the form or submitted as an attachment.
You can continue filling in the form later by selecting “partial save” at the bottom of the form and providing an email address to which the link will be sent.
When you save (i.e., submit) the form definitively, a summary of the information you submitted will be sent to your email.
If, for any reason, you do not receive the summary after submission, please check that your application was received by contacting elina.alatalo@tampere.fi or by phone at +358 40 146 1239.
NOTE! Please make sure your application has been received in case of any issues, as late applications will not be processed.

By submitting my contact information, I consent to it being stored in the city’s systems and used as described in the privacy notice. https://www.tampere.fi/en/data-protection-and-information-management

 

 Basic information and sharing of contact details

"Consent to Electronic Notification: (Laki sähköisestä asioinnista viranomaistoiminnassa 24.1.2003/13 §19.). If this field is filled in, the electronic decision replaces the paper copy of the decision. A summary of the grant application will also be sent to this email address. Please make sure that the email address is entered correctly."
Sharing contact information

 Account details

"An IBAN-format bank account consists of 18 digits and always begins with the country code FI."

 Field of Art

 Personal grant for professional artists

"Only numbers should be entered in the format 0000 or 0000.00. Do not use a period as a thousands separator or the € symbol."

 Project implementation plan

 Annexes

You can supplement the information you have provided with attachments to your application: a plan for using the grant, a cost estimate, a schedule, and a report on the applicant’s previous activities. Attachments should preferably be in PDF format, and each attachment must be clearly named. Indicate in the attachment if it contains confidential material, such as trade or professional secrets. As a rule, applications and their attachments are public documents, which can only be accessed for justified reasons and under supervision.

 Grants, scholarships, and monetary awards received in previous years

Specify the unit/organization that granted the subsidy and the amount received. For example: Pirkanmaa Cultural Fund €1000.
Grants, scholarships, and monetary awards received during the last three years
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in 2025
in 2024
in 2023

 Other possible information

If necessary, you may use the text field below to provide information related to the grant application that you were unable to include in other fields of the application.

 Partial or complete saving of the application

With partial saving, you can continue filling in the application later.
To continue later, select the option for "Saving the application as a draft" and enter your email address in the field. Then, click “Submit” at the bottom of the page. A link will be sent to your email, allowing you to resume completing the form.
Make sure you enter your email address correctly, as otherwise you will not be able to edit the information and the application will remain incomplete!
When the application is complete and you want to submit it for processing, click “Save” at the bottom of the page (Note: Leave the partial saving checkbox empty).
If an error message appears during saving, you can locate the incomplete or incorrectly filled section by looking for a yellow warning triangle. Some fields only accept numbers, or the information must follow a specific format (such as email addresses), so even extra spaces can prevent the form from being submitted.
When you save (i.e., submit) the form definitively, a summary of the information you submitted will be sent to your email.
If, for any reason, you do not receive the summary email after submission, please verify that your application was received by contacting elina.alatalo@tampere.fi or by phone at +358 40 146 1239.

Saving the application as a draft

Sending the information

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