Call for Proposals
We invite emerging creative/artistic individuals, ensembles, and collectives to submit proposals for the Incubation Award 2025 as part of the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme.
This Creative Ireland South Dublin initiative seeks to support emerging ensembles/collectives and individual young artists and creatives, in any discipline or working across cultural and creative disciplines to:
Develop their practice
To promote their presence as a creative voice in South Dublin County.
The amount of the award is €5000. It is available to young people under 25 years who are living in the South Dublin County Council’s Administrative Area.
- Artists/creatives must be under the age of 25 and live in South Dublin County Council Administrative Area
- Any applicant may receive a maximum of three incubation awards.
- There must be an element of community or public engagement to the proposal.
- Any associated events with the project must take place within the South Dublin County Administrative Area. It is the responsibility of the applicant groups to verify the administrative area in which they reside.
- Funding may be used to support the practice of young artists and creatives. It may include mentoring, the purchase of specialised equipment / materials to create new work / travel to events that are useful to the applicant’s practice / attendance at masterclasses / to fund an exhibition / performance of new work / to fund research for the making of new work.
Funding may not be used to fund;
-Competitions (entry or travel to)
-Third level undergraduate studies
-An artist to work with a school or youth service based group. (For more information on funding available for this area, please contact the Arts Office.)
Funding provided by Creative Ireland must be acknowledged in all publicity material associated with the work. Logos are available from the South Dublin County Council Arts Office.
Applicants awarded funding will be asked to present to the SDCC arts office team or to the Creative Ireland Culture and Creativity team in the year after the receive funding.
South Dublin County Council reserves the right to publicise the awarding of the fund. Successful applicants may be asked to be available for promotional material.
-The selection panel reserves the right not to grant an award if the standard of applications does not satisfy the criteria of the award in full.
-Applications and information will be kept on file for no longer than 12 months.
-All projects must be completed in 2025. All project reports must be completed within 2 weeks of the project ending date. A report must be submitted to the creative Communities Engagement Officer by Nov. 1 2025.
-Individuals/Organisations are responsible for their own project management, insurance, risk assessment and any other administration and paperwork related to the funded project.
-All individuals working with children and young people must be appropriately Garda Vetted. Individual artists/organisations are responsible for Garda Vetting. Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy must be in place and available upon request. You are responsible for this.
For questions, please contact Eithne Swaine, Creative Communities Engagement Officer: eswaine@sdublincoco.ie