Apply Now: “PARTIS & Art for Change” Initiative (Portugal)

The “PARTIS & Art for Change” initiative is at the national level and supports development of projects in two phases:

• Pilot phase (duration 12 months): (até) 15 projects;
• Consolidation and implementation phase (duration 24 months): (até) 10 projects selected from those that are supported in the pilot phase.

Objectives

• The “PARTIS & Art for Change” initiative supports projects based on artistic practices that promote access, participation and co-creation, aiming to facilitate: meeting and dialogue between cities of different groups of people (in terms of society, age, culturais, among others); gives equal opportunities; do reinforcement of social and territorial coesão; gives diversity and critical thinking.
• The “PARTIS & Art for Change” initiative, through artistic practices, encourages the formulation of new responses (or complementary and integrated responses with existing ones) to concrete social needs or challenges, in a logic of inclusion, transformation and social justice, contributing to the development of personal, social and cognitive competencies, and also promoting the exercise of full citizenship.

Funding Information

• Within two eligibility parameters defined in this regulation, projects may be financed at a maximum amount of €30,000 for the pilot year and a maximum of €35,000 for each subsequent year of implementation:
  • The financing of the “PARTIS & Art for Change” initiative will not, in any case, spend 70% of the total cost of the project, devoting it to the promoting institution and the partner institutions to ensure and commit the co-financing capacity or the remaining 30%;
  • The above relationship shown will be able to configure an 80%/20% case or project relationship. It is proposed to contemplate more than 50% of its intervention in different territorial areas of AML and AMP.

Eligibility Criteria

• They can nominate public or private collectives without legally recognized lucrative purposes, based in Portugal.
• An entity in the circumstances described above will not be eligible for promoter in this 3rd Edition, but may be a partner entity of other candidature(s).
• Each organization can only submit a candidacy as a promoting entity, but nothing prevents it from being a participating entity in other candidature(s) to this contest.

Evaluation Criteria

• In evaluating the candidatures, the following criteria will be considered:
  • Experience and adequacy of the professional team in the social and artistic areas, valuing the work developed in the scope of artistic practices with a participatory and community dimension in the specific aspects of the project;
  • Experience and adequacy of the promoting entity and the partner entities development of projects of participatory and community artistic practices in specific aspects of the project;
  • Quality of the project, tended in consideration: an artistic purpose; the social objectives; the integration between the social and artistic dimensions;
  • Quality of the diagnosis and coherence between these and the objectives, the expected results, and the proposed activities;
  • Clarity in the definition of the objectives and results to be achieved;
  • Innovative character and differentiating factors of the proposed intervention.

For more information, visit Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.