DEVELOPMENT AND
PROMOTION OF
DISCIPLINES OF ARTFunding of literature, music, performing arts, applied and visual arts projects.
IMPLEMENTATION OF CULTURAL PROGRAMMES3 large programme groups (Strategic Funding, Sustainable Regional Cultural Development, and Memory Institutions);
3 smaller programmes (Networking, Creative Community Initiatives, Memory Actualisation and Civic Education);
9 separate programmes (the largest of them: Protection of Copyright and Related Rights, Ethnic Culture and Intangible Cultural Heritage, Creative Europe, Education Through Culture).
AWARDING GRANTS FOR CREATORSAwarding individual, mobility, and emerging artist grants to creators
CULTURAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSISThe LCC implements the three-year research plan approved by the Ministry of Culture, organises, coordinates and carries out multiple analyses of internal activities and processes per year as well as closely monitors the sector of arts and culture.
EXPERTISEThe LCC on its own initiative and in response to requests, provides expert advice on cultural policy issues, evaluates applications, and decides on funding, by engaging a network of more than 300 arts professionals and cultural experts each year: the LCC’s assembly of members, assesors in the pool of peers of the LCC, the members of the Regional Councils for Culture and external experts.
ADMINISTRATION AND CONSULTINGOn average, the LCC receives up to 7,000 project and grant applications per year, funds more than a third of them, provides regular advice to applicants on how to submit ideas, and participates in expert working groups outside the institution. Each year the LCC administers an average of 2,700 funded projects of organisations and grants awarded.
