DGArtes supports 54 editing projects. 52 out for lack of money

Dand according to the final decision, released today at the official website of DGArtes, the competition Editing, in visual arts, performing arts, street arts and disciplinary crossing, of the Project Support Program 2025, to be realized this year, counted with 139 applications, 54 of which will be supported with 1,060,000 euros.

Of the 76 applications that remained unsupported, the majority (52) does not receive funding because “the overall amount available has been exhausted”.

In addition, 24 applications were not supported because they were below the 60% minimum score required.

In this competition there were also nine applications excluded, because the projects were “inconformity” with aspects defined in the Opening Notice.

Of the 54 supported projects, 16 are from photography, 16 from music, six from architecture, six from disciplinary crossing, four from plastic arts, three from new media, one from circus, one from design and one from theater.

In geographical terms, 23 are from the North, 16 from the Great Lisbon, eight from the Center, three from the Algarve, one from the Setúbal Peninsula, one from the Alentejo, one from the Autonomous Region of Madeira and another from the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

DGArtes opened, at the end of January, the competitions of the 2025 Project Support Programme – which includes this one to support creation – with a total allocation of €13.35 million, the same value of 2023 and 2024.

The deadline for submission to this competition – and to all of the Project Support Program 2025 – was until March 12, but it was extended until April 2, taking into account the consequences of the bad weather at the beginning of the year, which affected the artistic sector, especially in the Center region.

The organisations representing the Culture sector have repeatedly warned of the delays in the opening of DGArtes competitions and their underfunding.

When last year the results of the Project Support Program contests were revealed, dozens of structures were again out of funding, although they were considered eligible for support, as had already happened in previous years and is happening this year.

Final results of other competitions have also been published this year.

In the Internationalization, 115 projects were supported, with 41 remaining unsupported for having exhausted the available funding, although they had a final score above 60%.

In the Programming contest, 71 artistic projects were supported, with 110 applications without support due to lack of funding, although they had a final score above 60%.

In Support for Projects in Creation and Programming – Crossing Discipline about one third of the applications was without support for having exhausted the funding that allowed to support 99 artistic projects.

In the Visual Arts contest, 74 projects with around 1.9 million euros are supported, with 60 remaining without funding for lack of funding.

In the contest for Creation in Street Arts, Circus, Dance and Theatre more than half of the applications were unsupported, because the amount available was exhausted.