Deadlines for Applications for Cultural Funding 2025
Submission deadlines for arts and culture funding:
2nd submission deadline, October 10, 2025
The following deadline applies to the annual grant:
September 30, 2025
Art Acquisitions
Second Submission Deadline: September 24, 2025
Film Funding (CINE ART)
Second Submission Deadline: October 30, 2025
The processing period of 14 weeks begins on the specified submission dates.
Applications for project funding can be submitted at any time by means of an online application, i.e. there is no submission deadline. The processing period of 14 weeks begins as soon as the application has been submitted in full.
- The submission deadlines are fixed. Late applications (received after a submission deadline) will automatically qualify for the next submission date.
- You will be informed in writing about the decision on your application within the processing period. Phone enquiries about the processing status of your application will not be answered. We will contact applicants if there are any open questions or if any submission documents are missing.
- Multi-annual funding agreements with a term of three years and focus programmes (also referred to as CALLS) are offered separately. The submission deadlines specified in the respective tender shall apply.
- The application shall in any case be submitted before the project is implemented.
- It is not possible to apply for funding for projects that have already been completed.
- We recommend submitting applications six to twelve months before implementing a project to make reliable planningpossible for both parties (for you and for us).
- Funding applications for projects that span an entire calendar year (annual activity, annual programme) shall be submitted by the last submission date of the previous year at the latest.