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Discretionary government transfers to promote cultural export and to support large scale international cultural events/europe-asia roundtable sessions (ears)
Description of the policy/measure
The ministry of education and culture allocated grants to the organisers of the event through to two different measures. the other has been support for cultural export and the other support for large scale international cultural events, i.e. financial measures corresponding to stated policy objectives of promoting cultural exports and attracting large scale events to finland. the support is granted through open calls for projects.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
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Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
As regards the policy measures themselves, the expected results of support to cultural export projects include fostering professional networks and helping branding of ccs companies and/or their products and services. the expected results of large scale cultural events include similarly fostering networks and promoting the position of finland and finnish actors in relevant international networks. ears itself tries to help connect asian and european professionals in order to facilitate cooperation of different types.state grants are allocated to eligible legal entities such as associations or companies. the receiver of a grant is responsible for carrying out the project in question.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
The financial support by the ministry has ranged from 110 000 to 150 000 euro annually between 2012 and 2016.
Evaluation of the policy/measure
The ministry is in a process to evaluate and up-date its policy on discretional government transfers.