This way you can earn financial incentives for your creative projects

Youth on the Move is the name of the call with which the Ministry of Culture seeks to reach the population between the ages of 18 and 28, through the provision of economic incentives for the development and/or strengthening of training, creation, circulation and artistic and cultural research projects in urban contexts or rural areas, in various fields of culture, arts and cultural heritage.

“Youth in Movement” is a program to finance projects of Colombian youth artistic groups with which we seek to ensure that young people who dedicate their lives to various artistic expressions such as music, dance, theater, literature can count on economic incentives that support their artistic training to continue developing its cultural projects in all territories of the country. This call has resources of 10 billion pesos in which artistic groups according to the number of members can apply with resources up to 20 million pesos,” said Minister of Culture Angélica Mayolo.

In this way, 4,584 young people from 958 groups or groups have already been funded, whose participation reached 581 municipalities throughout the country during its first version. In 2022 each winner will receive between 5 and 20 million pesos, depending on the formation of the group or group.

Young people from all regions of the country can be part of the call by digitally accessing youngsenmovimiento.mincultura.gov.co until May 11, 2022.

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According to Mincultura, there they will be able to upload a video explaining what the project is about, fill out the required fields in the form, and attach the requested documents to the call manual.

This program is designed for young Colombians between the ages of 18 and 28 who will be able to take part in one of the two lines of participation:

-New projects

Collectives or artistic or cultural groups made up of two (2) or more Colombian people, resident in the national territory who: are presenting for the first time in this call, who, having participated in Youth in Movement 2021, were not selected, or winners in Youth in Movement 2021, who are presented with a new project.

-Continuity of projects

Collectives or artistic or cultural groups that won the 2021 call, and which for this version propose the continuity of their project in a new phase that involves the strengthening of the previous initiative and a commitment to its sustainability.

Finally, within the process of evaluating the proposals introduced as a novelty by a jury bank, it will be determined by the quality, scope, linkage of ethnic groups, population groups or people in vulnerable conditions, among other criteria, it will select the best proposals of young Colombians.

“We participated in the call for young people on the move with the first women's batucada proposal in the town of San Cristóbal, we were able to develop an intergenerational project with local women and in spaces of resignification. Young people have to take ownership of our role in society in cultural and artistic events, we have the faculties, capacities and hearts to contribute to the country and rebuild the social fabric through art and culture,” said Valentina Camacho, member of the Timbau music collective winner of the 2021 version.

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