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Application deadline Ongoing	Capacity Building Support Scheme The Capacity Building Scheme is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €20,000 Accepting applications
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 Ongoing	Writers in Schools Scheme The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the island of Ireland.	Maximum award €200 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 20 May 2020 12:00	Artist and Youth Work Residency scheme The Artist and Youth Work Residency scheme is designed to promote innovative partnerships between youth groups, artists and (where relevant) arts organisations. This scheme is managed by the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) on behalf of the Arts Council and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.	Maximum award €5,000 Application closed
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 17 September 2020 17:30	Commissions Award The Commissions Award is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €20,000 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 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	Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme Due to the uncertainty caused by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the application date of 30 April 2020 for the Touring, Round 1, 2021 has been deferred to a later date.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 9 January 2020 17:30 Next round opens 06 December 2019	Touring and dissemination of work scheme - advance planning This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines for tours taking place in 2021, and is open to applicants who are resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. Tours may travel to both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.	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
Application deadline 13 February 2020 17:30	Young Ensembles Scheme The primary purpose of the Young Ensembles Scheme is to support groups of young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four to create or critically engage with ambitious and original work together in any artform (e.g. circus, street art, spectacle, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, architecture, or any combination of the above). Groups/ensembles must be made up of three or more members.	Maximum award €25,000 Application closed
Application deadline 10 September 2020 17:30	Young People, Children and Education Project Award The award supports specific projects in the field of Young People, Children and Education in the 14-month period commencing on or after 1 November 2020.	Maximum award €85,000 Application closed
Application deadline 30 July 2020 17:30	Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award The Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working with, and producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms. The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice.	Maximum award €15,000 Application closed

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