Nominations open for Bursary Awards 2025 (Ireland)

Award Information

• Maxmium Bursary Award €5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be residents in the Dublin City Council administrative area. Applications for the purchase of equipment, marketing, administration costs and utilities are not eligible.
• Named professional artists, mentors, supporting organisations must be evidenced in the proposal and joint artistic objectives must be clearly articulated. Appropriate budgets and relevant supporting documentation must be included
• This is for an individual Artist to pursue a workplan that may include training, mentoring, research and capacity building in 2025.

Assessment Criteria

• Applications for Arts Grants and Bursary Awards 2025 must be submitted online.
• No applications will be accepted later than this date and time.
• Your application will be processed by members of the Arts Office Administrative team. Any applications that clearly fall outside the eligibility guidelines and criteria may be eliminated at this point. Dublin City Council reserves the right to redirect applications for consideration to appropriate categories other than those applied for, should it be deemed beneficial to the applicant to so do.
• All applicantions will be considered by the Arts Officer Team reporting to the City Arts Officer. Independent Assessors (with relevant experience and expertise) support the Art Officer Team who will make recommendations on all eligible applications.
• All applications will then assessed by a sub-committee of Elected Members of Dublin City Council from the Strategic Policy Committee.
• An external assessor reviews the application process before the applications are submitted to the Elected Members. When approved by the sub-committe of Elected Members, final approval is sought from full meetings of the Elected Members of Dublin City Council.

For more information, visit Dublin City Arts Office.