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Media support foundation is an independent public foundation in lithuania, established by 20 shareholders in 1996 (by 19 civil society organisations and the ministry of culture). the majority of the shareholders are creative cultural organisations, but also there are associations of different sectors of private mass media. the foundation is responsible for organising calls for financial support to cultural and educational projects in the mass media. the foundation is an independent manager of public finance subsidies from the state budget. since 2016, the foundation's annual budget has amounted to up to eur 2.7 million. the goals included mass media literacy goals which were not assigned to the foundation before 2016. horizontal goals to support projects for young people and minors as well as for national minorities are also set here. the total budget of the foundation is distributed between six programmes in the following proportions: 1) periodic cultural and art press - 25 percent; 2) periodic national press - 10 percent; 3) periodic regional press - 25 percent; 4) national radio and tv - 16 percent; 5) regional radio and tv - 8 percent; 6) internet (digital) media - 16 percent. a separate regional radio and tv programme has been included in the budget of the foundation only since 2016. the sixth programme for the internet (digital) media has also been allocated an enlarged portion of the budget since 2016. the greatest emphasis of the support policy for dissemination of the cultural educational content has been placed on the periodic cultural and art press as well as on the periodic regional press of lithuania. .