{"id":8890,"date":"2025-02-14T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:26","slug":"budget-2018-increased-investment-in-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/budget-2018-increased-investment-in-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2018: Increased investment in culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2018 culture budget is estimated to be at 1.6 per cent of total government expenditure, retaining the increasing trend registered in recent years and the highest to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Per capita public investment in 2018 is expected to reach \u20ac159 &#8211; an increase from \u20ac138 in 2017 and \u20ac122 in 2016. The public funding portfolio awarded by Arts Council Malta to artists and organisations increased from \u20ac1.9 million to \u20ac2.1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest sectoral increase of \u20ac3.4 million is attributed to interdisciplinary activity and directly related to the role of Valletta 2018 European Capital of Culture as a platform for diverse creative activities. As expected, there was further investment directed towards Valletta 2018 Foundation totalling \u20ac8 million, doubling that in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An overall increase of 36 per cent was also registered in the allocation for Public Cultural Organisations (PCOs) with a total of \u20ac19.5 million, almost double the allocation in 2016. This includes a substantial increase of 19 per cent from 2017 allocated to festivals organised by PCOs, which now have a total budget of \u20ac1.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yearly analysis of the national budget conducted by Arts Council Malta reveals an overall increase of 10 per cent for culture, with a total budget of \u20ac70 million for cultural heritage, the arts, media and creative sectors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}