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Application deadline Ongoing	Professional Development Award The Professional Development Award is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €3,000 Accepting applications
Application deadline 10 December 2020	COVID-19 Completion Funding Scheme 2020 The COVID-19 Completion Funding Scheme is intended to facilitate Arts Council-funded projects or activities to be completed and/or realised.	Maximum award €40,000 Opens 10 November 2020
Application deadline 19 March 2020 17:30	Arts Grant Funding Arts Grant Funding will be awarded to organisations and individuals to carry out a series of activities between either 1 January – 31 December 2021 or 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 6 February 2020 17:30	Markievicz Award The Markievicz Award is administered by the Arts Council on behalf of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and is open via a public call to artists working in all arts genres supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 21 May 2020 17:30	Next Generation artists award The purpose of the Next Generation Artists Award is to support a group of promising artists across all disciplines at an early but pivotal stage in their career. Recipients will receive €20,000 and will also take part in a collective week-long residential programme in early 2021.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 15 October 2020 17:30	Open Call Open Call is a programme for artists and arts organisations to develop and shift their practice and profile work on a national scale, creating high-profile arts central to people’s lives.	Maximum award €400,000 Application closed
Application deadline 30 July 2020 17:30	Opera Bursary Award The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of opera to develop their art practice.	Maximum award €15,000 Application closed
Application deadline 30 April 2020 17:30	Opera Commissions Award The opera commissions award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output.	Maximum award €45,000 Application closed
Application deadline 30 April 2020 17:30	Opera Projects and Production Award The Opera Projects and Production Award is intended to support individual opera development projects (both early and middle-stages of development) beginning on or after 1 January 2021, and the making and presentation of fully-staged productions of opera to be presented in 2021, in line with the Council's published policy and strategy for opera.	Maximum award €450,000 Application closed
Application deadline 22 October 2020 17:30	Strategic Funding To provide funding on a competitive basis to support arts organisations with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Travel and Training award Please note that the Travel and Training Award is closed until further notice.	Maximum award €3,000 Application closed

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