| Name | Closing Date | Maximum Awarded € | Abstract |
| Travel & training award | 31 December 2012 | 8000 | There are three strands to this award: Travel and Training Outbound to support individuals who wish to avail of training and other professional development opportunities abroad; Travel and Training Inbound to support individuals or organisations who wish to invite specialists from abroad to deliver high-level training or mentoring; and the CCP International Award which offers support to arts organisations planning to make applications to the EU Culture Programme. |
| Visual artists in prisons scheme | 31 December 2012 | 2400 | The scheme allows artists to work with prisoners in prison/
detention centres for a period of 10 days and complements
an existing arts and education programme in the Education
Units within the prison system. |
| Visual arts bursary award | 12 July 2012 | 15000 | The award supports professional individual artists in the development of their practice. |
| Annual funding | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The purpose of annual funding is to provide stable and secure funding to certain arts organisations (on an annual basis). Applicants may request a contribution towards both operating and artistic programming costs. |
| Annual programming grant | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The purpose of the annual programming grant is to assist applicants with the costs of their artistic programme. The scheme is not intended to provide support for ongoing operating/administrative costs. |
| Artist in the community scheme bursary award | Closing date passed | 10000 | The arts and older people bursary award, as part of the artist in the community scheme, aims to support an individual professional artist in any artform working in the field of arts and older people. |
| Location one fellowship | Closing date passed | 37000 | A 10-month fellowship based in New York |
| Regularly funded organisations | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The purpose of this programme is to strengthen and make more secure a group of key arts organisations, by contributing to both their operating and artistic programming costs. This funding programme is not open to general applications. Instead, the Arts Council will invite organisations to participate on the basis of published criteria. |
| Small arts festivals scheme | Closing date passed | 20000 | The Small Arts Festivals scheme is designed in the main to support and provide opportunities for small arts festivals or events seeking funding of up to €20,000. |
| Touring and dissemination - advance planning | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and arts practices due to take place in between January 2013 and December 2013. |
| Touring and dissemination of work scheme | Closing date passed | Unlimited | This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in all arts disciplines starting between January 2013 to June 2013. |
| Visual Artists' Workspace Scheme 2012 | Closing date passed | 30000 | The scheme will award grants of up to €30,000 towards running costs such as light, heat, rent, artists development programmes, administration and/or appropriate salary costs (capital costs cannot be applied for through this scheme). The funding will be offered on a once-off basis for 2012. There is an overall total available fund of €30,000. |
| Visual arts project award | Closing date passed | 40000 | This award supports projects and initiatives in the field of visual arts commencing in 2012. |
| Young ensembles scheme | Closing date passed | 10000 | The primary purpose of this award is to support groups of young people between the ages of 12 and 23 to create ambitious and original work together in any art form (e.g., circus, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, or any combination of the above). |