{"id":9173,"date":"2025-02-17T07:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=9173"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:21","slug":"the-professional-development-grant-pdg-and-the-young-talent-fund-ytf-have-been-overhauled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/the-professional-development-grant-pdg-and-the-young-talent-fund-ytf-have-been-overhauled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Professional Development Grant (PDG) and the Young Talent Fund (YTF) have been overhauled!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Professional Development Grant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/funds\/professional-development-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professional Development Grant<\/a>&nbsp;are: PDG will once again focus on professionals and students aged 18 and over. Eligible activities are short courses, seminars, workshops, mentoring and job shadowing experiences. Students younger than 18 are not eligible. Furthermore, to create a better balance between the PDG and YTF, in 2020 there will be three calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details, please refer to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/funds\/professional-development-grant\/main-strand\/official-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guidelines<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/funds\/professional-development-grant\/main-strand\/steps-to-apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Young Talent Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/funds\/young-talent-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Young Talent Fund<\/a>&nbsp;are: YTF will be open for young artist aged eight to 18. Eligible activities are short courses, seminars, workshops, mentoring and job shadowing experiences, as well as mobility for conferences, exhibitions, competitions and participation in festivals. In 2020 there will be&nbsp;two calls with a maximum budget of EUR2000 per application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details, please refer to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/funds\/young-talent-fund\/funded-projects\/official-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guidelines<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/funds\/young-talent-fund\/funded-projects\/steps-to-apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The changes made have kept you as applicants at heart and will make it easier and clearer for professionals and students to be judged fairly as it will create a more equal level playing field for applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}