Performing arts

Call for Proposals 2026

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Acces to the online procedure at the CAIB electronic site
SUMMARY

Budget
€300,000

Objective
To contribute to the international promotion of professional performing arts from the Balearic Islands for activities taking place between December 1, 2025, and November 30, 2026, in order to foster cultural exchange and relations between the islands and between the Balearic Islands and the rest of the world.

1. Grant Programs: Mobility and International Promotion

a) SUPPORT FOR MOBILITY (INDIVIDUALS, ASSOCIATIONS, ETC.)

Beneficiaries
- Individuals (creators, producers, distributors, or cultural agents)
- Associations, joint ownership entities, and other non-profit legal entities in the performing arts sector, from the private sector
- Students in their final two years of higher education in the performing arts (universities, conservatories, or accredited centers) participating in official educational or academic exchange programs, endorsed by both institutions, in the field of performing arts, with a maximum stay of ten days.

Projects Eligible for Subsidies
1. Travel and Accommodation:
1.1 For the company (artistic and technical staff): to attend professional fairs or festivals outside the island of residence, with live performances or to carry out promotional activities, and to perform live in a professional setting outside the island of residence.
1.2 For distributors, producers, and cultural agents: to attend professional fairs or festivals with professional activities outside the island of residence.

1.3 For performing arts professionals: to participate in creative residencies, competitions, and castings outside the island of residence.

1.4 Travel for programmers or cultural agents (maximum of three per application) to the artist's home island.

Eligible Expenses
Only travel and accommodation expenses are eligible:
- Travel expenses for equipment and artistic personnel, artists' representatives, and other cultural agents (producers, distributors, etc.), and a maximum of two technical professionals (lighting technicians, sound technicians, council members, etc.). Travel expenses include plane, boat, train, taxi, and/or bus tickets, provided they can be justified with invoices.

- Visa, ESTA, and ATA Carnet fees.

- Accommodation: to be justified with invoices.

- Vehicle rental for travel. The maximum applicable to these expenses is the cargo rate, when the journey is understood to be for the transport of equipment or set design, and the passenger rate, when the rental is understood to be for the transport of people. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly specify and justify this in the project proposal. If it is not clear, travel expenses will be considered.

- Mileage traveled in a private vehicle: maximum price of €0.262384 per kilometer. The application must specify the exact route to be followed (origin and destination of each leg). The maximum applicable to these expenses is the freight rate, when the journey is understood to be for the transport of materials or scenery, and the passenger rate, when the rental is understood to be for the transport of people. Therefore, this must be clearly specified and justified in the project proposal. If it is not clear, travel expenses will be considered.

- Cost of accreditations (trade fairs, markets, and professional conferences). Max. 2 people. Max. €350 per person.

b) SUPPORT FOR EXTERNAL PROMOTION (BUSINESS STRUCTURES)

Beneficiaries
Self-employed professionals and private companies in the performing arts sector, regardless of their tax residence, provided they organize activities with professionals from the Balearic Islands.

Projects Eligible for Subsidies
i) Mobility Expenses: travel, accommodation, and baggage (see table of maximum mobility amounts)

ii) External Promotion Expenses:
- Expenses for hiring services and personnel related to:
- Production of project presentations.

- Professional live performances outside the island of residence of the artist or company.

- Live performances at professional fairs or festivals outside the island of residence of the artist or company.

- Rehearsals for performances related to a tour.

- Tours on national and international circuits.

- Production of graphic or audiovisual material associated with external promotion, regardless of the medium.

- Production of promotional graphic material in any format and medium.
- Translation of texts and production of files for subtitling.

Eligible Expenses
For the activities in section i), mobility, travel expenses are included (see table of maximum travel amounts).

For the activities in section ii), international promotion, the following expenses are included:
- Contracting of professional, artistic, and technical services related to production and communication. The maximum amount per supplier that will be considered for eligibility purposes is €3,000.

- Payroll for employees, provided they are included in the budget attached to the application. This expense cannot exceed 70% of the total project cost.

- Production of graphic (writing, design, translation, and editing) and audiovisual (pre-production, recording, editing, and post-production) materials for the promotion of the artist, company, and/or show, regardless of the format.

- Costs of digital distribution of promotional materials.

- Creation and/or updating of websites with content related to performing arts companies and/or professionals in the Balearic Islands.

- Equipment rental.

- Rental of stands at trade fairs.

2. Maximum amount per applicant: €25,000

3. Application deadline

Applications will be processed in two periods, and the evaluation committees will meet twice per call for proposals.

First period: Submission of applications between March 3 and April 20, 2026 (for activities carried out between 01/12/2025 and 20/04/2026. Optionally, also for activities carried out between 21/04/26 and 30/11/2026).

Second period: Submission of applications between April 21 and September 4, 2026 (for activities carried out between 21/04/26 and 30/11/2026).

No applications will be accepted after the deadlines specified, nor will applications for activities taking place between December 1, 2025, and April 20, 2026, registered during the second submission period.

Budget Allocation

70% of the budget will be allocated to the first period and 30% to the second period.

If the budget allocated to the first period is not fully used, it will be applied to the second period.

4. Application Submission

Grant applications and supporting documentation must be submitted electronically through the online procedure available on the CAIB Electronic Office website, accessible from the IEB website, www.iebalearics.org.

Information for completing the online procedure

Foreign individuals or legal entities without a digital certificate must submit their applications through the designated section on the IEB website, within each call for proposals. All communication between the IEB and applicants submitting applications through this channel will be conducted exclusively through this section.

Access procedures for foreign natural or legal persons WHO DO NOT HAVE a valid digital certificate in Spain.

5. Implementation Period and Payment of Expenses

The subsidized activity must be carried out between December 1, 2025, and November 30, 2026.

Invoices must be issued and paid before the end of the justification period.

6. Obligations of Beneficiaries
The support of the IEB must be acknowledged in all programs, posters, and promotional and communication materials for the activity using the IEB logo and the logo of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sports, which can be found in the Corporate Identity section of our website.

It is necessary to report any public events related to the subsidized activity.

7. Justification

- Deadline: twenty business days from the day after the end of the implementation period or from the day after the publication of the grant award resolution, if the subsidized activity has already been carried out.

- Supporting documentation:

• Justification report

• Justification financial report (using the "Justification of Expenses" template) in spreadsheet format.

• Invoices

• Supporting documentation to prove payment of invoices

• Samples of graphic and/or audiovisual materials published in connection with the subsidized activity, bearing the IEB logo of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports.

• If applicable, employee payrolls and supporting documentation to prove payment of salaries and taxes listed.

• If applicable, employee payroll records and social security contribution payment receipts.

• If applicable, personal income tax (IRPF) documents and other non-recoverable or non-offsettable taxes, and proof of payment.

8. Payment

— The grant will be paid in a single installment, which will be made once the fulfillment of the purpose for which the grant was awarded has been verified and the completion of the subsidized activity has been justified in accordance with the terms of this call for proposals.

— For grants awarded of €2,000 or more, the grant will be paid in two installments, starting from the date the award is finalized:

a) An initial payment of 50% of the awarded amount, which will be made in advance via bank transfer, as an advance payment, once the award decision has been published.

b) A second payment of the remaining 50% of the awarded amount, once the activity has been completed and the entire project or activity has been justified with the documentation required by this call for proposals. This payment will be made via bank transfer, which must be completed once the fulfillment of the purpose for which the grant was awarded has been verified and the completion of the subsidized activity has been justified in accordance with the terms of this call for proposals.

THIS TEXT IS AN INFORMATION SUMMARY. CONSULT THE OFFICIAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS HERE.

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