1. Purpose of project subsidies — Realisation of a single project, limited in time and objective — Available for all disciplines — Available for revivals and tours 1

2. Basic stipulations — Dutch language area or Brussels Capital Region — Legal personality 2

3. 3 Project subsidies for organisations: stipulations — Compliance with relevant collective labour agreement — Employing only self-employed workers who can present a declaration of self-employment + equivalent payment — Able to submit an overview of all earnings and costs involved in the project

4. 4 Projects for organisations: submitting applications — Submission dates: – 15 September in the year prior to the year when the project starts – 15 March for projects that start as from 1 July of that same year

5. 5 Project subsidies for organisations: contents of application — an overview of previously realised activities. — an overview of the financial situation and the necessary elements that show that the basic conditions and assessment criteria can be fulfilled guide

6. 6 Notes regarding the budget Budget: overview of the expected earnings and costs involved in the project - What are these amounts based on? (add any useful documents!) - Detailed explanation of the items budgeted for What must be thoroughly explained? - Wages and fees - Technical production costs - Income (sales, sponsoring, support from other organisations, any subsidies applied for elsewhere etc.)

7. assessment  Quality assessment under the Arts Act = recommendations on operation and management, made by an agency recommendations on quality of content, made by assessment committee of external experts  Recommendations always based on criteria in Arts Act  Decision always taken by Minister of Cultuur in the Flemish Government 7

8. 8 Payment of project subsidies to organisations + artists — Advance of 90% — Balance of 10%: The latter is paid after receipt and inspection (and if necessary discussion) of a work report that is to be submitted: – after the realisation of the plans in the application – at the latest 15 months after the official granting of the subsidy – at the latest by 15 October of the following year

9. 9 Documents available — Guide to subsidy applications: — Budget model — Overview of labour costs — Application form Via www.kunstenenerfgoed.bewww.kunstenenerfgoed.be

10. International projects 10

11. 11 International subsidies — International projects — International work ing residences — Remuneration of travel, accommodation and transport expenses — Arrangement of workplaces: New York, Berlin, Paris — Agreement with Jan Van Eyck and Rijksacademie guide

12. International projects — international tours by companies and ensembles — coproductions — (participation in) exhibitions abroad — exchanges 12

13. criteria — the quality of the artistic concept or the content — the artistic appeal at home and abroad — the international reputation of foreign partners — the international reputation of applicants from abroad — correlation between content and financial plan — gives concrete form to interculturalism 13

14. Notes regarding assessment — existing production Assistance with travel, accommodation and transport expenses. Other expenses: depends on earnings — new creations: All manner of expenses 14

15. 15 Contributions to travel, accommodation and transport expenses The following maximum amounts apply to contributions to travel, accommodation and transport expenses: — 2,500 euro for individual artists and experts — 5,000 euro for cultural organisations (- 300,000 euro) — 7,000 euro for cultural organisations that do not receive subsidies covering several years

16. 16 Small grants: criteria — The value to the artist’s own development of participation in an activity abroad — The quality of the activity abroad — The value of the participation of a foreign guest in an artistic activity in Flanders

17. 17 Small grants: contents of the application — grounds for the application, with a concrete plan — a curriculum vitae — information on the location — a budget Deadline for applications: at least two months before the start of the activity, unless a good reason is given for an exception

18. www.kunstenenerfgoed.be Institute for the Performing Arts : www.vti.be 18