Description

Cultural education should enable people to take part in cultural life, to participate and to actively and creatively shape their own living environment.
Munich already has a long tradition of cultural education and a wide range of programmes. The Cultural Education Scholarship enables the creators of cultural education projects to pause, reflect, develop themselves further, think outside the box and conduct research, as well as to take time to deal with overarching issues independently of the project.

The scholarship is intended to support the following projects in particular:

• Researching and addressing socially relevant issues in cultural education in practice, theory and research, such as promoting diversity and inclusion, countering classism, stimulating participatory educational processes, et cetera.
• Dealing with thematic issues and methodological procedures relating to your own (educational) work, e.g. developing working and educational methods, trialling artistic research, reflecting on processes, etc
• Further development of existing approaches in the research field of cultural education
• Development of quality assurance measures for their own practice, for example through evaluations, supervision, interviews or the creation of materials
• Testing work processes and transformation processes in the field of cultural education with the help of experiments, surveys or observations, for example with the aim of opening up new and more diverse target groups, initiating collaborations or developing sustainable concepts for cooperation
• Expert exchanges and research trips to promote dialogue and knowledge transfer
• Networking, contact and work meetings with institutions and stakeholders from the fields of culture, education and social affairs, participation in network meetings
• Professional development, such as participation in further training or in local, national and/or international professional exchanges as well as research trips or work shadowing (including abroad)

Prerequisites

• Applications are open to professional freelance artists and cultural practitioners, cultural mediators and educators who live or work in Munich
• The 8,000 euros will be awarded as a lump sum.
• Only individuals are eligible to apply. Legal entities (associations, gUGs et cetera) are not eligible to apply.
• Maximum funding period: 1 January 2025 to 30 April 2026, the project must be completed within this period.

The following applies if a scholarship is awarded:
Scholarship holders must submit a substantive report at the end of the project and take part in an evaluation of the scholarship.

Evaluation criteria include the sustainability of the project, degree of innovation, approach and feasibility, positioning of the applicant in the diverse urban society and added value for the field of cultural education in Munich.

Required documents

• completed application form "Scholarships Cultural Education 2025" (download under Documents and Links)
• artistic CV (in tabular form), max. 1 page
• Description of the significant cultural education projects you have been involved in and the role you have played in them (if available: links), max. 1 page
• detailed and specific description of the content of the project to be made possible by the grant, max. 2 pages
  Please answer the following questions
  • What is the reason for the project?
  • What goals are you pursuing with the project?
  • What are your concrete steps? What is your timetable for the project?
  • What significance does the project have for Munich?
  • Why is this project relevant to the field of cultural education?
  • Which other bodies, persons or organisations are involved?

Please submit your application by e-mail to kulturelle.bildung@muenchen.de

Subject: Scholarship Cultural Education 2025
File size: maximum 8 MB
Documents summarised in a single PDF!
PDF file name: surname_firstname

If it is not possible for you to send the application by e-mail as a PDF or if you do not want to send your data unencrypted (see notes on the "Application form"), you can send your documents by post in exceptional cases (receipt by the City of Munich applies) to:

City of Munich
Department of Culture
Department 3
Scholarship Cultural Education 2023
Burgstraße 4
80331 Munich

Please do not enclose any publications, specimen copies or other special formats.

It is not possible to submit your application in person to the Cultural Department.

Alternatively, you can submit your application by 26 July 2024, 11:59 pm in the special mailbox at the gate in the town hall (Marienplatz 1, near the fish fountain).

By submitting their application, applicants agree to the terms and conditions of the competition. Incomplete applications or applications received after the application deadline cannot be considered.

Online counselling dates:
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 3 to 4 pm
You can access the meeting here
https://lhm.webex.com/lhm/j.php?MTID=m26a79944687650ee3888a9a26f4c833f

Friday, 12 July 2024, 10 am to 11 am
You can access the meeting here
https://lhm.webex.com/lhm/j.php?MTID=m3277f55d904174424acb6e1e78950588

Legal basis

The city council is expected to decide on the approval of the scholarships at the end of 2024. Information on possible funding will be provided afterwards. Applicants will be informed of the decision in a timely manner. We ask for your understanding that no statement can be made about rejection/funding until then.