Milan approves two million euro Culture Plan to support industry players in city

Two million euros: this is the budget of the Culture Plan approved today by the Milan City Council, which sets out the guidelines for the allocation of grants to support operators offering cultural services in the city. The budget of two million euros comes from the Milan City Council’s Mutual Aid Fund for Health Emergencies, and the approval resolution stipulates that the share allocated to culture can be increased by any additional donations.

The strategic and operational objectives contained in the Culture Plan aim to reach out to those working in the field of cultural production, dissemination and diffusion, and are articulated through several lines of action. The first relates to the venues of culture: a contribution to the costs of maintenance during the emergency of venues intended for cultural activities and services that express public function (theaters, cinemas, museums and exhibition spaces, bookstores, cultural associations, training institutes in arts and performance disciplines, archival venues, hybrid spaces with a cultural vocation) is provided. Regarding the theme of culture and work, allocated a contribution to cover damages suffered in connection with the forced suspension of activity. Then comes the FOCUS - Fund for Sustainable Culture, to support pilot projects based on principles of sustainability in the use of resources, construction of collaborative networks, involvement of different cultural supply chains, and so on. A share of up to 200 thousand euros is earmarked for this area, and projects can be funded with a contribution of up to 40 thousand euros each.

A public notice will be published in the coming days and a technical committee will be appointed to evaluate the applications and project proposals received according to the guidelines listed above and the allocation criteria detailed in the notice. When the notice is published, each cultural operator will only be able to submit one application (regarding the plans for venues of culture and culture and work), exclusively through the use of the online platform that will be activated on the website of the City of Milan; applications also have to be submitted individually and not in associated form among several operators. As for the FOCUS point, on the other hand, the project may also be proposed in associated form among several operators, including among those who have applied with regard to the other two areas.

“The critical situation that citizens and businesses have had to face in these months of lockdown reverberates, in the cultural sphere, in a very strong damage to all subjects that operate in our city,” says Culture Councilor Filippo Del Corno. “These days the cultural operators, who make up the network of thought, presence and project that nourishes the vitality and plurality of the city community, not only find themselves in the condition of having to make up for losses due to lost revenues, but they also have to be able to face the resumption of activities in a profoundly different, and decidedly more complicated, framework. Within the framework of the lines approved by this Council for the management of the emergency, we therefore want to give as much support as possible to these entities, and in particular to those in a more fragile situation, by activating the portion of the Mutual Aid Fund reserved for the Culture sector, so as to quickly allocate resources, in the form of non-repayable contributions, to support their activities. Special thanks to Fondazione Bolton Hope Onlus, which wanted to direct its substantial donation to the Municipality’s Mutual Aid Fund precisely to support the Milanese cultural world.”

In fact, the Bolton Hope Onlus Foundation has donated one million euros to the Milan Municipality’s Mutual Aid Fund, tying its use to the support of Milan’s small cultural realities, which have been sorely tested by the health emergency.

Milan approves two million euro Culture Plan to support industry players in city

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