Percent-for-art scheme


Where
Finland
When
2016
Who
The ministry of education and culture
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Description of the policy/measure

A three-year (2016-2018) spearhead project has been launched as part of a strategic government project to expand the percent-for-art scheme in cooperation with social and health care. the objective of the spearhead project is to improve accessibility to art and culture and thus promote the well-being effects of art. this will happen by increasing the offer from different fields of art and cultural services as well as their use by the social and healthcare services in their work in patient care for example in hospitals, care of the elderly and child protection. the long-term objective is to get art- and culture-based well-being services to become a permanent part of social and health care structures and the monitoring of well-being.

Results achieved

Artists get employment, patients' accessibility to art and culture will be improved and the well-being effects of art will be enhancecd.

Financial resources allocated to the policy

Funding of two million euros has been reserved for this spearhead project over its three-year duration 2016-2018.