3 Quarter 2019 (duration 4-5 months)
In case of remaining funds, a second open call can be announced.

• Any public or private, commercial or non-commercial organization/subject, as well as nongovernmental organizations established as a legal person in the Czech Republic, or an international organization/ body or agency thereof established or active in the Czech Republic.
• Eligible applicants are legal entities providing cultural services, activities and goods in the area of professional art and cultural criticism who have been legally registered for at least two years.

Eligible partners from donor states:

• Public or private, commercial or non-commercial and non-governmental organisations established as legal entities in the donor states or an international organization/body or agency thereof established or active in the donor states.
• Natural persons who are legal residents in Liechtenstein and in Iceland.

Eligible partners at national level:

• Public or private, commercial or non-commercial and non-governmental organisations established as legal entities in the Czech Republic or an international organization/ body or agency thereof established or active in the Czech Republic;

Natural persons are not eligible project partners.

The subject of the application may be the activities focused on fostering the infrastructure of art criticism, knowledge sharing, strengthening of competencies and skills, and cooperation in art criticism. Projects can include all art disciplines. Projects should focus on the following activities and the combination thereof in particular:

• activities focused on raising awareness of art and cultural criticism, such as laboratories, seminars, discussions, conferences,
• various forms of art and cultural criticism, raising the interest in cultural offer and participation in public discussions concerning the importance and content of the offer,
• laboratories, seminars, and other education events, strengthening the competences and skills of art critics in the field of critical thinking and new technologies, for instance,
• educational activities focusing on management skills and competencies in the area of art and cultural criticism, e.g. new business models.
• activities promoting interdisciplinary cooperation,
• activities promoting cooperation among various participants (cultural organizations, critics, artists, media, education and academic sectors),
• innovative forms and formats of art and cultural criticism, which can attract and engage new audiences in the dialogue,
• activities focused on art and cultural criticism of works by or focused on the disadvantaged groups of people (Romani people as well as other social, ethnic and cultural minorities) promoting their equality and integration.

Support will be primary aimed at comprehensive projects supporting art and cultural criticism systematically.

Projects can include a series of various eligible activities based on cooperation of various subjects with the aim to provide as significant an impact of the project outputs as possible.

Projects can involve subjects primarily focused on art and cultural criticism, such as journals and other media, cultural and education organizations, such as galleries, festivals, libraries or schools.

Non-eligible activities:

• it is not possible to ask for the support of general operating costs,
• it is not possible to exclusively ask for the support of costly development of technologies,
• it is not possible to ask for the support only/exclusively of critical texts production.

The project application must be clearly defined as opposed to the programme area Capacity Building of Professional Umbrella Associations, Networks and Platforms. Support in this call is not designated to strengthen the capacity building of associations, networks and platforms of critics.

• Support for social, ethnic and cultural minorities
• Bilateral cooperation with partners from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.