Eastern Switzerland digitizes cultural promotion
The City of St.Gallen's Cultural Promotion Office and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau are new partners of the online solution of the Office for Culture of the Canton of St.Gallen. Applications can be recorded once and submitted to various cultural funding bodies at the same time.
In summer 2019, the Office for Culture of the Canton of St.Gallen introduced an online solution for the submission and processing of applications, according to the canton's press release. This was done together with the regional funding organizations Südkultur, Rheintaler Kulturstiftung, Kultur Toggenburg, Thurkultur and KulturZürichseeLinth as well as the cultural departments of the cities of Rapperswil-Jona and Wil.
Since this year, the City of St.Gallen and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau have also been participating in this platform. This means that ten cultural funding agencies are currently connected to it. Once an application has been entered, it can be submitted to the selected cultural funding agencies with a single click. This makes it possible to apply for communal, regional and cantonal cultural funding in a single step, which is unique in Switzerland. The joint online form is now also integrated on the website of the City of St.Gallen's cultural funding agency and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau.
The applications, and after completion of the projects also the accounts, are sent to all participating funding organizations. The decision on funding contributions is made separately. The responsibilities and procedures differ depending on the amount of funding requested and the regional reference. Depending on the canton, the funding comes from the cantonal cultural funding budget of the general state budget, from the lottery fund or from the cultural funding budgets of the municipalities or the regional funding organizations.
More info:
https://www.sg.ch/news/sgch_allgemein/2022/01/digitalisierung-in-der-kulturfoerderung.html
