Invitation to Submit Project Proposals

The Culture and Arts Support Fund will select projects and activities in 2021 meeting the following categories, themes and requirements.

Project and activity categories and themes

1. Projects preserving and promoting cultural heritage and developing historical and cultural monuments into cultural tourism products;
2. Creation, public dissemination and presentation of literary, national, classical and contemporary works;
3. Support for audiovisual works, books and professional arts and culture newspapers and journals promoting cultural heritage and national arts at home and abroad;
4. Artistic works developing children’s artistic and aesthetic knowledge, and projects improving public arts and cultural education;
5. Innovative ideas and product development in cultural creative industries and services, including handicrafts, music production and digital works such as animation;
6. Publishing and promoting outstanding Mongolian studies research and placing cultural and arts research in reputable international books and journals;
7. Organising or attending specialist training to acquire, teach and transmit professional skills;
8. Cultural studies, cultural and arts policy research, and research on commercial applications of copyrighted work, including creative industries, innovation and Mongolian branded products and services.

Projectfunding limits

1. Maximum funding for an individual’s project: MNT 30,000,000.
2. Maximum funding for a legal entity’s proposal: MNT 80,000,000.

ProjectDocumentation requirements

1. Alignment with state cultural policy, national programmes, international treaties and conventions, and other relevant laws and policy documents;
2. An explanation of effects on society and individuals and of practical applicability and feasibility;
3. The project’s significance and timeliness;
4. Realistic, achievable planning;
5. Safety arrangements for participants and activities, including feasibility during COVID-19;

6. Whether additional funding from other sources is needed and, if so, evidence of those sources;

1. Information on previous implementation experience;
2. A declaration or application confirming no infringement of intellectual property or copyright.

Other conditions

1. Implementers must have no overdue loans or outstanding payments to banks or financial institutions.
2. Applicants with unsatisfactory performance or outstanding obligations from previously funded projects are ineligible.
3. Proposals using project funds to purchase equipment or furniture will not be accepted.

ProjectProposal submission deadline

Proposals must reach the Ministry of Culture’s Cultural Production and Innovation Department by 17:30 on 31 March 2021.

Contact: 51-265628, 51-265626.

Download the application form from the link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wu37pJb_anE_rL_518nc1iqUBiGDBhf1/view?fbclid=IwAR04gGEc3aIX0abMDvSk37jFzmirudgflmorPqBc6A_DLbq7_WQlN30QA9M