This comparative overview translates the Compendium’s COVID-19 country reports into a table, resulting in a simplified overview of all financial measures outlined in the reports. The table allows you to filter the information per country, type of measure, generic or culture specific measures, and implementation level. It is also possible to search for specific information manually.
Last update: June 23rd
| Country | Entity | Measure | Description | Generic/Culture specific | Implementation level | Beneficiaries | Total amount (in EUR millions) | Distribution of funds | Conditions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | The Albanian Government | Fiscal leniency | Tax defferal and postponement of the deadline for submitting yearly financial reports. | Generic | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Albania | The Albanian Government | Fund/Grant | Financial benefits for self-employed and the unemployed and beneficiaries of economic support. | Generic | National | Self-employed | Not limited | EUR 210 - EUR 420 | Self-employed individuals who have a yearly turn over above EUR 11.300 can benefit from the scheme. | Implemented |
| Albania | The Albanian Government | Fiscal leniency | Rent payment deferral for those businesses whose activity was suspended in March and April due to corona virus. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Businesses whose yearly income is EUR 114,164 can benefit from the scheme | Implemented |
| Albania | The Albanian Government | Fund/Grant | One payment support for employed in business whose activity was suspended during March-June (excluding those working in the NGO sector and some other categories, such as lawyers, architects, double employed). | Generic | National | Employed | Not limited | EUR 322 | Employed in businesses with a yearly income over EUR 114.164 can benefit the scheme | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | Hardship fund - emergency aid for partial compensation of the net income loss. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 2000 | EUR 6,000 - EUR 12,000 + an additional "come-back bonus" of EUR 500 per month. | Compensation over a period of max. 6 months for freelancers and cultural SMEs. | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | Donation to the Artists’ Social Insurance Fund | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 10 | EUR 3.00 max (one-off payment) | Support for artists and cultural educators, who are neither entitled to apply to the hardship fund nor to the bridge funding for artists | Implemented |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Grant leniency | Leniency in funded projects and annual grants are paid in full even if events cannot take place due to COVID-19. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Employment aid | Corona short-time work. Employees remain in stable employment with nearly full wage compensation. | Generic | National | Employed | Not applicable | Not applicable | Work time can be reduced to 30-80%. Prolonged until 31 March 2021. | Implemented |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Fund for non-profit organisations. | Generic | National | Small businesses/Cultural institutions | 700 | Not specified | Applicants can receive subsidies for 100% of fixed costs from March until September and a flat rate for maintenance costs. | Implemented |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Increased subsidies for the film sector. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed/Businesses | 1,1 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Increased subsidies for cinemas. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 0,45 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Increased subsidies for the publishing sector. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 0,8 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Increased subsidies for the Austrian Music Fund. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 0,42 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Increased subsidies for theatres. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 0,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Austria | The Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport | Fund/Grant | Increased subsidies for visual arts and photography. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 0,25 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | Bridging fund for freelance artists, processed by the social insurance agency for self-employed persons. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 90 | EUR 6,000 max. (one-off payment) | Not specified | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | Fund for audiovisual productions (cinema, TV, documentary films, commercials) that have been discontinued due to COVID-19. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 25 | Variable | Non-repayable grant of up to 75% of the default costs that occurred since 16 March. | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Liquidity aid | A law for cancelled events due to COVID-9 aims to ensure the liquidity of event organisers. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | Instead of refunding tickets, event organisers may issue a voucher. | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fiscal leniency | Reduction or deferral of social security contributions for freelance operators. | Generic | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions/Self-employed | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fiscal leniency | Tax deferrals (income tax, corporate tax etc.) | Generic | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions/Self-employed/Employed | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | Fixed-cost subsidy for companies | Generic | National | Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Loan | Federally secured guarantees for bank loans in order to cover the short-term liquidity. | Generic | National | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fiscal leniency | Reduction of the VAT to 5% for gastronomy, culture and publishing | Generic/Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | The reduction is in place from July 2020 until the end of 2021. | Implemented |
| Austria | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | COVID-Start-up Emergency Fund by Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH | Generic | National | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | The fund will double the equity capital of SMEs. | Implemented |
| Belgium | The Federal Government | Employment aid | Temporary unemployment benefit (adapted to COVID-19). | Generic | National | Employed/Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | Flexibility of old conditions. | Implemented |
| Belgium | The Federal Government | Employment aid | Already existing Bridging benefit (overbruggingsrecht). | Generic | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Not specified | Benefit related to height of income. | Implemented |
| Belgium | The Federal Government | Fiscal leniency | Conditions of Tax Shelter agreements have been adjusted to help producers to bridge the gap in expenditure. Aimed at facilitating private investments in audiovisual productions and performing arts. | Culture specific | National | Small businesses/Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Flemish Community | Fund/Grant | An emergency fund of EUR 200 million for the cultural and other sectors. | Generic | Regional | Not specified | 200 | Not specified | Not specified | Still to be decided on how this emergency fund will be allocated to and within these sectors. |
| Belgium | Flemish Community | Fund/Grant | Impediment fee (‘hinderpremie’) for businesses, self-employed and organisations with at least one full time employee (including those in the arts and culture sector). | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 4,000 | Only to those providing services to an audience on a physical location (e.g. a theatre). One-off fund, with small exceptions | Implemented |
| Belgium | Flemish Region | Fund/Grant | Compensation fee (‘compensatiepremie’): also for organisations/businesse with no services to an audience on location. | Generic | Regional | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 3,000 | Must suffer a loss of income of 60% or more. | Implemented |
| Belgium | Brussels-Capital Region | Fund/Grant | Compensation fee for small independent companies (up to 5 full time employees). | Generic | Regional | Businesses | Not specified | EUR 2,000 | One-off payment | In development |
| Belgium | The City of Ghent | Fund/Grant | Support for the cultural institutions of the City of Ghent, as part of a larger relaunching plan. | Culture specific | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 2,7 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Belgium | Flemish Community | Fund/Grant | An emergency fund for the cultural sector, primarily directed to structurally funded cultural organisations to cover their own losses and distribute the support to non-subsidized organisations and individuals within their networks. | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 65,0 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Flemish Community | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund for local governments. | Generic | Regional | Cultural institutions | 87,3 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Flemish Community | Employment aid | Stimulation fee (‘aanmoedigingspremie’), aimed at (cultural) businesses in financial distress that keep employees in part time employment in order to avoid firing them. | Culture specific | Regional | Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | Businesses suffering financial losses of 20% or more can also apply. | Implemented |
| Belgium | Flemish Community | Fiscal leniency | Postponement of the payment of certain taxes. | Generic | Regional | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Brussels-Capital Region | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund for the cultural sector. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 8,4 | EUR 1,500 - EUR 2,000 | EUR 5 million is aimed at cultural workers who cannot benefit from other forms of support. | Implemented |
| Belgium | The City of Bruges | Fund/Grant | Relaunching plan fund. | Generic | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 6,0 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | The City of Mechelen | Fund/Grant | Solidarity fund for professional artists and arts organisations. | Culture specific | Municipal | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 0,1 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fiscal leniency | Grant guarantee | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | No | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Loan | Loan guarantee | Generic/Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | For sectors and operators who encounter difficulties in accessing credit due to the COVID-19 and facilitate access to loaning with crowdfunding | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund | Generic | Regional | Small businesses/Cultural institutions | 50,0 | 8,6 million dedicated for cultural operators | The organisations benefiting from the emergency fund will have to ensure the remuneration of the final service providers (for example, for culture: companies, artists, etc.) | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 8,5 | Not specified | For cultural operators for the period May 4 to July 5 | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 2,5 | Not specified | To support festivals for the period May 5 to August 31 | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 1,0 | Not specified | To support artistic sectors in difficulty in the context of international dissemination for the period March 13 to June 30 | Implemented |
| Belgium | ST’Art investment fund | Loan | Emergency loan | Culture specific | Regional | Small businesses/Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 20.000 to 100.000 with a fixed rate of 2% | available for a period of 6 months (possibly renewable for 6 months) | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fiscal leniency | emergency measures for audiovisual professionals | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Measures envisaged for the benefit of producers | Culture specific | Regional | Small businesses/Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | Coverage of additional production costs until December 2020, Increase in production aid by 20% in 2020 and 2021, between EUR 100.000 and 150.000 aid per belgian series | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Emergency aid for journalists | Culture specific | Regional | Small businesses/Businesses | 3,0 | Not specified | To compensate the journalism sector for the loss of revenue caused by the crisis | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Increase journalism fund | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed | 0,6 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Help for authors | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed | 0,7 | Not specified | To help accessible projects impacted by the crisis whatever the professional category (author, publisher, distributor, bookseller) | Implemented |
| Belgium | Bookstore Aid Fund | Loan | Aid to booksellers | Culture specific | Regional | Small businesses | 0,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Wallonia- Brussels Federation | Fund/Grant | Support for the LIBREL platform | Culture specific | Regional | Small businesses | 0,1 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Goverment of Wallonia | Fund/Grant | Extraordinary solidarity fund | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Small businesses | 233 | EUR 2500 - EUR 5.000 | 5.000 for a company completely closed or stopped, EUR 2500 for a company that must modify the days of closure | Implemented |
| Belgium | Goverment of Wallonia | Fiscal leniency | Suspension of tax payment | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Small businesses | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | Goverment of Wallonia | Fund/Grant | Get Up Wallonia! | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Small businesses | 285 | EUR 2500 | Not specified | Implemented |
| Belgium | City of Mechelen | Fund/Grant | Solidarity Fund for professional artists and arts organisations | Culture specific | Municipal | Self-employed/Cultural institutions/Businesses | 0,11 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Croatia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Crisis fund for employed/self-employed who were engaged in projects delayed due to the pandemic. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not limited | Variable | To have already approved projects. | Implemented |
| Croatia | The Croatian Employment Service (managed by) | Employment aid | Support for the preservation of jobs in fields affected by Coronavirus. | Generic | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 666 | EUR 216 - EUR 433 | To provide a proof of the negative impact of COVID-19 measures; the grant amount is based on employement status (full-time/part-time). | Implemented |
| Croatia | The Croatian Parliament | Fiscal leniency | The law on the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Property was amended which allowed monument rent suspension. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Croatia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Aid for self-employed artists impeded to continue work activities. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not limited | EUR 215 - EUR 430 | Based on average wage in 2019 | Implemented |
| Croatia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Call for Artistic Professional Associations for funding of the one-time assistance to their members affected by the pandemic. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Not specified | The members of the associations apply for funding through their association. | Implemented |
| Croatia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Call for proposals “Arts and Culture Online”, aimed to increase online cultural and artistic participation of persons under 25 and over 54. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 3,3 | EUR 13,000 - EUR 66,666 | Within the framework of the Operational Programme Effective Human Resources 2014-2020 financed by the European Social Fund. | Implemented |
| Croatia | Agency of Electronic Media | Fund/Grant | Call for the Support Journalistic Work in Electronic Publications, launched to help to journalists, photo reporters, cameramen affected by the crisis. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,13 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Cyprus Government | Fund/Grant | A Suspended Operations Plan for all businesses that have suffered losses beyond 25% of their turnover. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | All businesses that have suffered losses beyond 25% of their turnover are eligible, regardless of whether their business has been suspended or not. | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Cyprus Government | Employment aid | Support for businesses to avoid redundancies. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | The affected workers will receive unemployment allowance for as long as the business is under suspended operations. | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Cyprus Government | Fund/Grant | Support Plan for Small Businesses, for businesses employing up to 5 people who have suffered a loss bigger than 25% of their turnover. | Generic | National | Businesses/Employed | Not specified | Variable | The plan foresees a subsidy of 70% of workers’ salary for those small businesses who keep their employees on staff. | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Cyprus Government | Fiscal leniency | Deferral of bank instalments payment, including interest on credit facilities granted and/or purchased and/or managed by financial institutions. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Natural persons/Legal entities governed by public law | Not applicable | Not applicable | No previous delays of more than 30 days in paying the instalment in line with contractual obligations on 29 February 2020. | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth | Fund/Grant | Emergency grant of a fixed amount for professionals of the creative and cultural sector. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not limited | EUR 900 | Not specified | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth | Fund/Grant | Increase, by 50%, of the amount provided for the Purchase of Art Works for the State Collection. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth | Fund/Grant | Support of cultural entities by financing their operating expenses in order to sustain their viability. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions/Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Cyprus | The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth | Fund/Grant | A grant of a percentage of the total amount of confirmed losses due to the pandemic for the film productions that were in the proces of filming or had prepared for filming for the months of March-June 2020. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not specified | Variable | The losses to be covered should not include amounts that fall within or are covered by the general financial framework of state aid to corporations (e.g. salaries of permanent staff etc.) or are covered by insurance companies. | Implemented |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Support fund primarily for those in the all-year subsidy groups of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, and small publishers. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 16,1 | Not specified | Applicants have provided cultural services for at least 3 years and have been successful at least once in the Ministry’s grant procedures in the past three years (2018-2020). | Announced |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Call for projects using multimedia platforms adressed to subjects of independent non-established theatre, classical and alternative music, and dance and motion art. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 1,1 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Support fund for professional theatres, orchestras, and choirs (part of the State Support Programme) and museums and galleries (whose collections are part of the Central Register of Collections). | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 10,1 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Czech Republic | The City of Prague | Fund/Grant | Special-purpose subsidy for theatres and other cultural institutions. | Culture specific | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 9,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Czech Republic | The City of Prague | Fund/Grant | Campaign to attract local tourists and a benefit programme including entrance fee discounts. | Culture specific | Municipal | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 3,7 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture and Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) | Fund/Grant | Extraordinary Call to Support Making Art Accessible through Digital Media. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 1,1 | Not specified | Focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between live art and the audience through new technologies. Deadline June 15th. | Ended |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture | Liquidity aid | Vouchers. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | People can ask the organisers for vouchers for events with an expected performance date of up to October 31st, 2020. | Implemented |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Industry and Trade | Fund/Grant | Special grant programme for the cultural and creative industries. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | Not specified | Not specified | The assistance should be of a twofold nature: direct financial support and creative vouchers. | Announced |
| Czech Republic | The Ministry of Culture Department of Art, Literature and Libraries | Fund/Grant | Special call for applications for support from the 2020 State Budget. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 16,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Estonia | The Estonian Government | Fund/Grant | Compensation for the direct costs of events (culture and sports) cancelled due to the coronavirus in March-April. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 3 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Estonia | The Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund | Employment aid | Labour Market Support Measure: distribution of wage benefits to employers in need to cover the March-May period. The Unemployment Insurance Fund and the employer will pay all labour taxes on wages and benefits. | Generic | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 250 | EUR 1,000 max. | Based on gross wage of last 12 months, plus remuneration for the employee by the employer which should be a minimum of EUR 150 in gross amount. | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund | Fiscal leniency | Tax administration measures: the abolition of the advance payment of social tax for self-employed persons for the second quarter of 2020; suspension of the calculation of tax interest for two months (March-April); deferral of payment of tax arrears for 18 months (currently up to 6 months), with a lower interest rate. | Generic | National | Self-employed | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Estonia | Kredex Foundation | Loan | Loan guarantees, accessible in stages, aimed to assist companies. | Generic | National | Businesses | 1550 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Estonia | Entreprise Estonia | Fund/Grant | Compensation of a small entrepreneur’s damages as a COVID-19 crisis support. | Generic | National | Businesses | 35 | EUR 3,000 - EUR 5,000 | The support is for micro enterprises whose 2019 turnover was at least EUR 20,000 and at most EUR100,000. | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Council of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia | Fund/Grant | Support for sub-endowments and county expert groups to maintain their activities through a Special scholarship for creative persons affected by the crisis. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR 500 (expert groups); EUR 2,000 (sub-endowments) | The scholarship will be distributed based on recieved proposals. | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Council of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia | Medical aid | Medical subsidy for individuals who have excelled in the field of culture. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Part of expenses for necessary medications, which are not covered by state health insurance. | Natural persons or legal entities can apply for this fund on behalf of a natural person. | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Grant leniency | Subsistence support by adjusting the terms of application and qualifying criteria of the existing Creative Persons and Artistic Associations Act. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 4,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Grant leniency | Subsistence support for choir conductors and mentors of dance groups by adjusting the terms of application and qualifying criteria of the existing Creative Persons and Artistic Associations Act. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,6 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for museums for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 6 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for theaters for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 4 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for music sector for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions/Businesses | 4 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for the field of literature for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions/Businesses | 0,5 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for the field of design for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 0,5 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for festivals, foundations and collectives for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 2,6 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation for festivals, foundations and collectives for the loss due to canceled events/activities, covering unavoidable fixed costs. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 0,6 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation of unavoidable fixed costs already incurred due to canceled events and activities. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 0,6 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Estonia | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Partial compensation of the unavoidable fixed costs due to canceled cultural events and activities of culture organisations. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 1,3 | Variable | The grants will be distributed in proportion to the amount requested by all applicants | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Education and Culture | Fund/Grant | The General Government Fiscal Plan for 2021-2024 and second supplementary budget proposal for 2020 with focus on the costs caused by the coronavirus epidemic: for the arts and culture sector due to the loss of ticket revenue and other income. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 40 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Education and Culture | Fund/Grant | The General Government Fiscal Plan for 2021-2024 and second supplementary budget proposal for 2020 with focus on the costs caused by the coronavirus epidemic: fund for professionals in the field of arts and culture. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 19 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Education and Culture | Fund/Grant | The General Government Fiscal Plan for 2021-2024 and second supplementary budget proposal for 2020 with focus on the costs caused by the coronavirus epidemic: fund for national art institutions. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 3,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Education and Culture | Fund/Grant | The General Government Fiscal Plan for 2021-2024 and second supplementary budget proposal for 2020 with focus on the costs caused by the coronavirus epidemic: fund for theatres, orchestras and museums receiving central government transfers. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 18 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Education and Culture | Fund/Grant | The General Government Fiscal Plan for 2021-2024 and second supplementary budget proposal for 2020 with focus on the costs caused by the coronavirus epidemic: grant for the Governing Body of Suomenlinna and the Finnish Heritage Agency. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 1,3 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Association of Finnish Municipalities | Fund/Grant | Individuals can apply for financial support due to the coronavirus situation in the municipalities their business is registered in. | Generic | Municipal | Self-employed/Employed | Not limited | EUR 2,000 | To cover operating costs incurred between March 1st and August 31st 2020 | Implemented |
| Finland | The Ministry of Education and Culture & The Finnish Cultural Foundation | Fund/Grant | Grant for the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) to assist arts and culture professionals hit by the coronavirus outbreak. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 1 | Taike is expecting to provide at least 500 grants with the funding. | Short-term grants for freelance artists | Implemented |
| Finland | Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, the Saastamoinen Foundation, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation | Fund/Grant | Grant for the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) to assist arts and culture professionals hit by the coronavirus outbreak. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 0,4 | Taike is expecting to provide at least 500 grants with the funding. | Short-term grants for freelance artists | Implemented |
| Finland | The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) | Fund/Grant | Taike has set aside an amount for alleviating the coronavirus crisis. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,1 | Taike is expecting to provide at least 500 grants with the funding. | Short-term grants for freelance artists | Implemented |
| Finland | Business Finland | Fund/Grant | Business development funding services to carry out new development measures aimed at preventing and correcting market and supply chain disruptions caused by the coronavirus. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Buisinesses | 700 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Finland | The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes network | Fund/Grant | Open call for artistic proposals related to themes such as the state of emergency, radical change, resilience, artistic practice in the future, alone together. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR 1,500 - EUR 5,000 | Not specified | Implemented |
| France | ADAMI (Collective management organisation for the rights of performers) | Fund/Grant | Exceptional distribution directly to the artists. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 8,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | ADAMI (Collective management organisation for the rights of performers) | Fund/Grant | Financial aid maintained for artistic projects cancelled or postponed and previously supported by Adami with a special focus on the remuneration of artists. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 1,8 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | ADAMI (Collective management organisation for the rights of performers) | Fund/Grant | Measures to support artists facing the most urgent social situations. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,33 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | ADAMI (Collective management organisation for the rights of performers) | Fund/Grant | Contribution to the emergency fund set up by the National Music Centre (via the Ministry of Culture). | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 0,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | ADAMI (Collective management organisation for the rights of performers) | Fund/Grant | Performing arts emergency fund (excluding music). | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 0,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Support mechanisms (partial activity, solidarity funds, State loans, exemptions from charges) for cultural stakeholders and the media. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 2900 | EUR 230 million solidarity fund; EUR 2.2 billion state loans; EUR 440 million partial activity indemnities. | This aid will continue to fully benefit the cultural sectors most affected. Access to the solidarity fund has been broadened and extended until 2021. | Implemented |
| France | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Emergency measures allocated via cultural operators. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 120 | EUR 5 million emergency fund live performance; EUR 97 million loans and guarantees; EUR 18 million distributed via national centres for music, cinema, books | Not specified | Implemented |
| France | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Increase national budget for culture and media 2021: additonal credits, tax expenditure, exemptions from social security contributions. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 1060 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Preserving the rights of performing and audiovisual artists and technicians until August 31, 2021. | Culture specific | National | Employed/Self-empoyed | 950 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| France | The French Government | Fund/Grant | The cultural sector is included in the national recovery plan that was announced in September 2020. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 2000 | Not specified | Five priorities are defined: 1. Heritage restoration; 2. Support to the performing arts and public creative institutions; 3. Support for artists and young creators; 4. Consolidation of strategic cultural sectors; 5. Strategic investments for the future evolution of cultural and creative industries. | Announced |
| Germany | The Federal Government | Employment aid | Short-time work allowance. | Generic | National | Employed | Not specified | 60% - 87% wage supplement for short time work | Percentage dependant on months passed. Limited until the end of the year | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal Government | Fund/Grant | Aid package for the self-employed and small businesses. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Small businesses | 50000 | EUR 9,000 (small businesses max. 5 employees); EUR 15,000 (companies max. 10 employees) | Immediate financial aid in the form of grants (for ongoing operating costs) for 3 months. | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal Government | Employment aid | Simplified access to basic security (also for cultural and media professionals): Access to unemployment benefit II. | Generic | National | Self-employed | Not limited | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal Government | Liquidity aid | Organisers can issue a voucher instead of a refund of the ticket for events that cannot be realised due to COVID-19. | Culture specific | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | Adjustment of the ‘Event Contract Law’ | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy | Fund/Grant | Encouragement fund for consultation services for companies. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not specified | EUR 4,000 | Not specified | Implemented |
| Germany | Federal State of Baden-Württemberg | Fund/Grant | Support for ongoing living costs. | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Employed | Not specified | EUR 1,180 | Per inhabitant for 3 months | Implemented |
| Germany | Federal State of Baden-Württemberg | Employment aid | Emergency aid programme in addition to the federal programme, to secure livelihood and bridge liquidity shortage. | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Small businesses | Not specified | EUR 30,000 | Up to 3 months, with 11 to 50 employees | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia | Employment aid | Emergency aid programme for artists. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed | 5 | EUR 2,000 | One-time aid | Exhausted |
| Germany | The Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia | Employment aid | State programme in addition to the federal programme The programme is setup in order to secure livelihood and to bridge liquidity problems. | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Small businesses | Not specified | EUR 25,000 | Up to 3 months, with 11 to 50 employees | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal State of Hamburg | Employment aid | Emergency programme of the Senate in addition to the federal programme. | Generic | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Businesses | Not specified | EUR 2,500 - EUR 30,000 | The amount based on number of employees | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal State of Hamburg | Fund/Grant | Aid package for cultural institutions (including private theatres and music clubs) by the office for culture and media. | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 25 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Germany | The Hamburg investment and promotional bank | Fund/Grant | Stimulation package for cultural businesses in addition to the national emergency aid fund. | Culture specific | Regional | Buisinesses/Cultural institutions | 50 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Germany | Municipality of Cologne | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund for free culture’ for institutions, initiatives and festivals. | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 3 | Not specified | Must be funded by Kulturamt Köln | Implemented |
| Germany | The Federal Association of Socio-Cultural Centres | Fund/Grant | “Land INTAKT”, an emergency aid programme within the framework of “Culture in Rural Areas” fund and funds from the Federal Programme “Rural Development”. | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 25,000 max. | Only eligible for rural areas (up to 20,000 inhabitants) | Implemented |
| Germany | The Sociocultural Fund | Fund/Grant | “Inter-Action” funding programme for non-profit organisations for the development of new formats. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 5,000 | Non-profit organisations must be under private sponsorship | Implemented |
| Germany | GEMA | Fund/Grant | Emergency aid programme for members (composers, lyricists, music publishers). | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 40 | Not specified | Two umbrella funds | Implemented |
| Germany | The Society for Ancillary Rights | Fund/Grant | Emergency aid programme for authorised music representatives who suffer a loss of fees. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not specified | EUR 250 | One-off amount | Not specified |
| Germany | The German Orchestra foundation | Fund/Grant | Immediate financial aid for self-employed musicians (financed by donations). | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR 500 | Immediate one-off payment | Not specified |
| Germany | The magazine Crescendo | Fund/Grant | Immediate financial aid for musicians. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not specified | EUR 500 | Immediate one-off payment | Completed |
| Germany | The Performing Arts Fund | Fund/Grant | Funding programme “take care” for self-employed performing artists. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR 5,000 max. | Not specified | Not specified |
| Germany | The Performing Arts Alliance | Fund/Grant | One-time emergency aid for performing artists in need (financed by donations). | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR 500 | One-time aid | Not specified |
| Germany | The German Library Association | Fund/Grant | Emergency aid programme for libraries in rural areas “On site for everyone” for improving digital equipment and implementing modern concepts. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 25,000 max. | Part of support programme “Culture in rural areas” | Implemented |
| Germany | The German Association for Archaeology | Fund/Grant | Emergency aid programme for local history museums in rural areas. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not specified | EUR 25,000 max. | Part of the regular support programme “Culture in rural areas” | Not specified |
| Germany | The Film Funding Agency and State funding | Fund/Grant | The aid funding programme for production, distribution and video. | Culture specific | National | Small businesses/Businesses | 15 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Ministry of Finance | Fund/Grant | Support for the cultural sector. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 15 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Increase of the funding earmarked for Municipal and Regional Theatres. | Culture specific | Regional | Cultural institutions | 0,10 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Greece | The Greek Government | Fund/Grant | Temporary economic support | Generic | National | Self-employed/Employed/Small businesses | Not specified | EUR 800 (mid-March-end April) and EUR 534 (May) | One-off payment | Completed |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Additional support for cultural non-profit organisations that are excluded from the horizontal support measures. | Culture specific | National | Non-profit organisations | Not specified | EUR 2.000 per organisation | One-off payment to non-profit organisations that are in the Ministry’s Registry of Cultural Organisations | Implemented |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Greek Film Centre | Fund/Grant | Call for the development of short films, documentaries and animation films to stimulate the film sector. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 2,8 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Greek Film Centre | Grant leniency | Acceleration of payments to motion pictures that are in the production stage. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Emergency support of small arthouse cinemas that traditionally present mostly Greek and European motion pictures. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Doubling of this year’s funding for theatre and dance calls for non-profit organisations. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 3,4 | EUR 2,3 (theatre) and EUR 1,1 (dance) million | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Additional support for theatre companies that had to cancel their shows because of the lockdown. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions/Businesses/Small businesses | 1,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Specific call for long-term dance research projects. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 0,12 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Specific call for visual arts projects, including long-term research and interdisciplinary projects. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 0,64 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Allocation of additional resources to state-owned museums of contemporary art for the acquisition of works by Greek visual artists. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports and the National Employment Service (OAED) | Fund/Grant | Dissemination of a voucher for the purchase of books. | Culture specific | National | Unemployed | 1,3 | EUR 20 per person | Unemployed citizens over 25 years old | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Dissemination of funds to regional authorities for music concerts across Greece. | Culture specific | Regional | Not specified | 1,3 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Specific call for design projects to promote the visibility of Greek design abroad. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 0,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Specific call for digital culture projects aiming at improving remote access of culture. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 0,8 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports | Fund/Grant | Specific call for video game development projects. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 0,3 | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Greek Government | Liquidity aid | A bill passed to allow performing arts producers to issue vouchers to reimburse tickets of cancelled concerts and performances. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions/Businesses/Small Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Greece | The Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Ministry of Finance | Fiscal leniency | Reducing the VAT of cinema tickets from 24% to 13%. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Not specified |
| Greece | The Ministry of Labor | Employment aid | A programme in which 10.000 cultural professionals will receive full social insurance coverage during their work for a period of 3 months. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 13 | EUR 1,000 per person | Not specified | Announced |
| Hungary | The Copyright Association | Fund/Grant | Aid for the first 400 performing artists. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR couple hundred | Not specified | Not specified |
| Hungary | The Ministry of human capacities (EMMI) | Fund/Grant | The project Thank you Hungary!, offers help to independent performing artists not able to step on stage. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 2,8 | Not specified | The artists of accepted bids will be remunerated immediately. | Announced |
| Ireland | The Irish Government | Fund/Grant | Financial crisis support. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 1 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Ireland | The Arts Council of Ireland | Fund/Grant | COVID-19 Crisis Response Award for the creation and dissemination of new artistic work (online, broadcast or other virtual means). | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 1 | EUR 3,000 max. | None | Announced |
| Ireland | Irish Music Rights Organisation , Irish Recorded Music Association and First Music Contact | Fund/Grant | COVID-19 emergency relief fund (supported by Spotify) to support professionals in the music field. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | Open collection fund | EUR 750 | One-off payment | Announced |
| Ireland | The Irish Government | Fund/Grant | COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment fund to support those who lost their jobs due to the pandemic measures. | Generic | National | Employed | Not limited | EUR 350 | Weekly payment | Implemented |
| Ireland | Screen Ireland | Fund/Grant | Strategic slate development fund (increased by EUR 2 million) to support the creative screen industry. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions/Businesses/Small businesses | 3 | EUR 75,000 - EUR 200,000 | Not specified | Announced |
| Ireland | Screen Ireland | Loan leniency | Enhanced development support for the creative screen industry with 90% funding upfront on all development loans. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions/Businesses/Small businesses | 1 | EUR 40,000 max. | Not specified | Announced |
| Ireland | Screen Ireland | Fund/Grant | Advanced investment in screenplay development. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 0,1 | EUR 12,000 - EUR 16,000 | Not specified | Announced |
| Ireland | Screen Ireland | Fiscal leniency | Additional marketing, financial planning and distribution support for upcoming film and TV releases. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Small businesses | 0,15 | EUR 5,000 | Not specified | Announced |
| Ireland | The Irish Government | Fund/Grant | Funding allocation to the Arts. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 25 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Ireland | The Irish Government | Fund/Grant | Additional funds ammount for the Arts Council . | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 20 | Not specified | €5 million reserved for production of high-quality digital art and online performances | Implemented |
| Italy | The Italian Government | Fund/Grant | Support for self-employed in performing arts, inscribed to their own social security. | Generic | National | Self-employed | Not limited | EUR 600 | Monthly sum (March, April, May) | Implemented |
| Italy | The Italian Government | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund to support performing arts, cinema and the audiovisual sector. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 245 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Italy | Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MIBACT) | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund to support publishing, cancelled cultural events, and museums (non MIBACT). | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 210 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Italy | Cassa depositi e prestiti | Fund/Grant | Culture investment fund to support cultural heritage. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 100 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Latvia | ALTUM (the national development finance institution) | Loan | Provision of loan guarantees and loans for crisis solutions to businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Interest rates cut by 50% (small and medium enterprises) or 15% (large enterprises). | Not specified |
| Latvia | The Latvian Government | Fiscal leniency | The idle-time benefit for tax payers. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not specified | EUR 700 max. | 75% of the gross income (employed and self-employed); 50% of the average revenue (small-businesses) during the previous two quarters. | Implemented |
| Latvia | The Latvian Government - The Media Support Fund | Fund/Grant | Support for media. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 2,04 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Latvia | The Latvian Government | Fiscal leniency | Exemption from rent payments or their reduction for businesses in a crisis-affected sector. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Latvia | The Latvian Government | Fiscal leniency | Tax deferral for businesses in the crisis-afected sectors. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Lithuania | The Lithuanian Government | Employment aid | Support plan for the preservation of jobs: contribution to employers by covering part of the downtime or downtime allowance for employees. | Generic | National | Employed/Cultural institutions | 500 | Not less than MMW | The share of state funds will account for 60 percent, but no more than one MMW | Implemented |
| Lithuania | Employment Services under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour | Fund/Grant | Support fund for the self-employed without employment relationship and work-related income. | Generic | National | Self-employed | 50 | EUR 257 | Per month for up to three months | Under implementation |
| Lithuania | The Lithuanian Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Creative downtime payments for artists. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 2 | EUR 607 | Monthly sum, granted for 3 months | Under implementation |
| Lithuania | The Lithuanian Film Centre | Fund/Grant | Support fund for the film industry. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed/Businesses | 3,4 | Not specified | Not specified | Under implementation |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian Council for Culture | Fund/Grant | “Development of new products and / or services of cultural and arts organizations” programme for digitization of cultural products and services and their adaptation to digital environment. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 3 | Not specified | Not specified | In preparation |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian Council for Culture | Fund/Grant | Individual grants for artists and culture professionals. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,6 | EUR 600 | Monthly sum, granted for 3 months | Under implementation |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian Council for Culture | Fund/Grant | The copyright associations' funds, are redirected to compensate losses of self-employed in the field of culture. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,75 | EUR 600 - EUR 1800 | The size of payment depends proportionally on the size of revenue loss | Under implementation |
| Lithuania | State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance | Fiscal leniency | Tax exemption for those whose economic activity is among the most affected. | Generic | National | Not specified | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Malta | The Government of Malta through Malta Enterprise (economic development agency) | Employment aid | Covid Wage Supplement provides a basic wage to the employed in the most afflicted sectors, including creative arts (performing and visual arts) and (additionaly) film and television industry, cultural education, and photorgaphy. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not limited | EUR 100 - EUR 800 | Monthly supplement, distributed based on impact level and employment status (part-time/ full-time/self-employed) | Implemented |
| Malta | Arts Council Malta | Fund/Grant | Special call of the Malta Arts Fund for artists and practitioners to develop projects addressing the cultural and creative sector as impacted by the situation. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,07 | EUR 7,500 max. | None | Implemented |
| Malta | Malta Enterprise (economic development agency) | Fiscal leniency | Deferral of tax payment. | Generic | National | Small businesses/Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Implemented |
| Netherlands | Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds | Fund/Grant | Fund for professional makers in the visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music and literature who do not receive multi-year subsidies from governments or government funds. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 2,5 | EUR 5,000-50,000 | The subsidised projects should be related to the corona crisis. | Exhausted |
| Netherlands | Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment | Employment aid | Temporary Emergency Bridging Measure for job security, providing companies with wage supplement for a three-month period in order to continue paying their staff. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not limited | Maximum 90% of the wage bill, depending on the loss of turnover. UWV will provide an advance of 80% of the requested contribution. | Loss of turnover must be at least 20%; no staff may be made redundant for economic reasons during the subsidy period. | Implemented |
| Netherlands | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate | Liquidity aid | Financial aid for entrepreneurs (TOGO) to pay fixed costs (e.g. rent). | Generic | National | Businesses | Not limited | EUR 4,000 | one-off net allowance | Implemented |
| Netherlands | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate | Liquidity aid | Temporary Bridging Scheme (TOZO): support for self-employed and capital loan for entrepreneurs with acute liquidity problems. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Businesses | Not specified | Not specified | 3 months max. supplements income to the social minimum wage. | Implemented |
| Netherlands | Performing Arts Fund, Mondriaan Fund, Dutch Literature Fund, Film Fund, Creative Industries Fund and Cultural Participation Fund | Fund/Grant | Within their existing budgets, the six funds have made room for specific measures aimed at the various sectors they serve. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 15 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Netherlands | The Netherlands Film Fund | Fund/Grant | Support fund for film and television productions in partnership with Netflix. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 1 | Not specified | Not specified | Launched |
| Netherlands | The city of Amsterdam | Fund/Grant | Support for art and cultural institutions (already subsidised by the municipality) within the municipal emergency fund of EUR 50 million. | Culture specific | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 17 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Netherlands | The Dutch culture funds | Fund/Grant | Performing Arts Fund, Mondriaan Fund, Dutch Literature Fund, Film Fund, Creative Industries Fund and Cultural Participation Fund will engage specific measures to aid the various sectors they serve. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 15 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Netherlands | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Additional fund for institutions that receive (multi-year) subsidies directly from the central government or through the state’s cultural funds. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 153 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Netherlands | The Ministry of Culture | Loan | Loans for monuments through the National Restoration Fund. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 50 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Netherlands | The Ministry of Culture | Loan | Loans for non-subsidised institutions via Culture+Entrepreneurship. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 30 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Netherlands | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Fund for municipalities and provinces to support their municipal institutions, distributed via the Mondriaan Fund, the Performing Arts Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 48,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Netherlands | The Dutch Government | Fund/Grant | The new Fixed Charges Allowance scheme is amended. The allowance, can benefit many entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative sector. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Small businesses | Not specified | EUR 20,000 - EUR 50,000 | Not specified | Implemented |
| Netherlands | The Dutch Government | Fund/Grant | Municipalities, provinces and regional water authorities will receive an initial support package, including reimbursment of costs for local cultural organisations, such as libraries, music schools, museums, municipal theaters and cinemas. | Generic | National | Cultural institutions | 566 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Netherlands | The rights organisations in the cultural sector | Fund/Grant | Set up from the main debt collection companies and the contribution from the Minister of Culture, the emergency fund will be used in different schemes, depending on the needs of different organisations. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 10 | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Netherlands | BankGiro Lottery and private funds | Fund/Grant | Kickstart Culture Fund or theatre productions, exhibitions and concerts | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 16 | Not specified | Intended for cultural organisations that cannot make use of the government package of EUR 300 million | |
| Netherlands | Municipalities | Fund/Grant | Support for the local and regional sector. | Culture specific | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 60 | Municipalities receive the EUR 60 million advance from the government through the general payment in the municipal fund, from which they can grant subsidies. | Intended for local and regional cultural institutions that suffer from the COVID-19 measures. | Implemented |
| Netherlands | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Additional financial support package for the cultural sector | Culture specific | National/Municipal | Cultural institutions/Self-employed/Employed | 482 | EUR 200 for cultural institutions, artists and creative professionals; EUR 20 million for private museums and art collections of national importance; EUR 15 million for preservation of national sailing heritage; EUR 15 million for film productions and pilots; EUR 150 million for municipalities. | Not specified | Announced |
| Norway | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Support scheme for stakeholders who canceled/postponed events due to restricitions. | Culture specific | National | Not specified | 30 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Norway | The House of Literature in Oslo and the Norwegian Writer’s Centre | Fund/Grant | Solidarity fund for vulnerable freelancers and others in the literature industry. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Poland | The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage | Fund/Grant | Social assistance package from the Culture Promotion Fund for artists unable to work. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Not specified | Documentation certifying the inability to perform work. | Not specified |
| Poland | The Polish Government | Fiscal leniency | ‘Anti-crisis shield’: financial benefit; social security charges exemption; parking benefits for contract workers and self-employed. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Small businesses | Not limited | EUR 438 | Not specified | Adopted |
| Poland | The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage | Fund/Grant | Subsidies for the development of digital forms of artistic creativity. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Poland | The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage | Fund/Grant | Grants for compensation of losses in culture (launched after loosening the rigors of the epidemic status). | Culture specific | National | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Portugal | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | Emergency Support Line for the Arts (through the Cultural Development Fund) to support performing arts, visual arts and interdisciplinary approaches of all entities. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 1 | EUR 20,000 max. (entities); EUR 2,500 max. (individual artists) | The aplicants have worked in the last 6 months in the field of the project they are applying with | Announced |
| Portugal | The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Fund/Grant | Emergency support in areas to which the foundation commonly grants support in the form of the partial replacement of lost earnings and contributing towards meeting living costs. | Culture specific | National | Small businesses/Businesses | 1,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Approved |
| Portugal | The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Fund/Grant | Grants for new creators in cinema, dance and theatre. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 0,2 | Not specified | Not specified | Approved |
| Portugal | The artists’ collecting society GDA “Gestão Direitos dos Artistas” | Fund/Grant | Fund to ensure “essential needs” for artists. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 1 | Not specified | EUR 500 thousand applied immediately, another EUR 500 thousand will be integrated in a larger fund. | Announced |
| Romania | The Romanian Government | Employment aid | Allowances for independent artists and individuals: compensation equal to the gross minimum wage per economy; granting technical unemployment in the case of SRLs and NGOs that temporarily suspend the employment contract. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | Not specified | The employees benefit from a state subsidized allowance of 75% of the salary, but not more than 75% of the average gross salary in the economy. | Adopted |
| Romania | The Romanian Government | Fiscal leniency | Deferral of rent and utilities and payment for small and medium-sized companies who have totally or partially interrupted their activity. | Generic | National | Small businesses/Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Adopted |
| Romania | County Agencies for Payments and Social Inspection/ The Agency for Payments and Social Inspection of the Municipality of Bucharest | Fund/Grant | Compensation for natural persons who obtain income exclusively from copyright and related rights. | Culture specific | Municipal | Self-employed | Not limited | 75% of the average gross national wage | The applicants must not obtain income from other activities and must declare on their own responsibility that they are unable to carry out their activity. | Adopted |
| Romania | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | The ACCES Online 2020 financing project for cultural projects (theatre, music, dance, visual arts and intangible heritage) which can be disseminated exclusively in the online environment. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 0,2 | EUR 10,300 max. | Not specified | Launched |
| Romania | The Ministry of Culture | Fund/Grant | The second session of the call for funding: "Strengthening cultural entrepreneurship and the development of the audience and the public”, aiming to increase access to culture, promote cultural diversity and strengthen intercultural dialogue. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions/Businesses | 2,0 | EUR 50,000 - EUR 200,000 | Not specified | Announced |
| Romania | The National Institute for Cultural Research and Training | Legal | The Registry of the Independent Cultural Sector for both non-governmental organizations and individual workers in the cultural field. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | Not applicable | Not applicable | Registration is administered through an online platform. | Implemented |
| Romania | The Romanian Government | Fiscal leniency | Leniency for taxes obtained in Romania by non-residents, from activities carried out in the sector of organising events or the effective participation in cultural, artistic, sportive, scientific, educational or entertainment events. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Adopted |
| Romania | Several independent cultural entities from Bucharest | Fund/Grant | Pay the rent of an independent actor platform: the public is invited to buy tickets to a theatre performance. The tickets money is donated to independent actors. | Culture specific | Municipal | Self-employed/Employed | Open collection fund | Not specified | Not specified | Implemented |
| Serbia | The Serbian Government | Fund/Grant | Support fund for self-employed artists, distributed through local self-government. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 1,8 | EUR 255 | Monthly payment for March, April and May | Adopted |
| Serbia | Association of theatre artists in Vojvodina | Fund/Grant | Solidarity fund for theatre artists, members of the Association. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | Open collection fund | Not specified | None | Launched |
| Serbia | The Serbian Government | Fiscal leniency | Tax deferrals on salary tax, social security contributions and corporate income tax, in order to preserve the liquidity of business sector. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not applicable | Not applicable | Repayment of obligations in installments starts from the beginning of 2021 | Adopted |
| Serbia | The Serbian Government | Employment aid | Direct aid to large companies aimed at avoiding layoffs during and after the state of emergency. | Generic | National | Businesses | Not limited | EUR 115 | Per employee | Adopted |
| Serbia | The Serbian Government | Employment aid | Direct aid to entrepreneurs, micro, small and medium size companies, as well as non-for profit organisations to continue the payment of salaries. | Generic | National | Self-employed/Small businesses/Businesses | Not limited | EUR 255 | Per employee, for up to three months | Adopted |
| Serbia | Serbian Development Fund | Loan | Set of measures related to loans and guarantees to business entities, in order to preserve and improve the liquidity of a legal entity. | Generic | National | Businesses | 200 | EUR 42,400 - EUR 425,000 | The repayment period is 36 months with a 12-month grace period | Adopted |
| Serbia | The City of Belgrade | Fund/Grant | Direct aid to non permanently employed artists who have contracts with Belgrade city cultural institutions. | Culture specific | Municipal | Self-employed | Not limited | EUR 255 | Per month, for three months. | Adopted |
| Serbia | Independent art and culture associations (ULUS, BAZAART, STANICA, SULUV, AICA Srbija and NKSS) | Fund/Grant | Solidarity fund for art and cultural workers who lost the majority/total of their income due to pandemic restrictions, and were omitted from the Government's aid measures. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Open collection fund | Not specified | One-off payment | Adopted |
| Spain | Institute of Official Credit (ICO) | Fund/Grant | Fund to mitigate the economic and social impact of COVID-19 (50% of the first release of the funding will be granted to SMEs and individual professionals). | Generic | National | Self-employed/Small businesses | 20000 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Spain | The Spanish Government | Fiscal leniency | Deferral of the payment of mortgages for economic activity; Social Security contributions; utilities payment. | Generic | National | Not specified | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not specified | Adopted |
| Spain | Department for Culture and Historical Heritage - Andalusia | Fund/Grant | Fund for the acquisition of works to support Andalusian artists and galleries. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Small businesses | 0,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | The Institut for Balearic Studies | Fund/Grant | Urgent and retroactive aids for the performing arts sector. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 0,17 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | The Institut for Balearic Studies | Fund/Grant | Urgent and retroactive aids for the visual arts sector. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 0,12 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | The Institut for Balearic Studies | Fund/Grant | Urgent and retroactive aids for the field of literature. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 0,1 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | The Institut for Balearic Studies | Fund/Grant | Urgent and retroactive aids for the music field. | Culture specific | Regional | Self-employed/Employed/Cultural institutions | 0,17 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | Catalonian Financial Institute (ICF) | Liquidity aid | Culture Liquidity: loans to face the need for liquidity of the cultural companies. | Culture specific | Regional | Businesses | 10 | EUR 20,000 min EUR 300,000 max | Loan term maximum 5 years, including a grace period of 1 year. Without commissions. | Not specified |
| Spain | Barcelona City Council | Fund/Grant | Extra fund for subsidy applications with emphasis on the most vulnerable structures linked to grass-roots culture in all its variants and sectors. | Culture specific | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 1 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | Barcelona City Council | Fund/Grant | Extra investment to boost collections in libraries. | Culture specific | Municipal | Cultural institutions | 1 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| Spain | Cultura de la Generalitat Valenciana | Fund/Grant | ‘ReaCtivem’, a package of measures for the cultural sector. | Culture specific | Municipal | Self-employed/Cultural institutions | 4 | Not specified | Not specified | Adopted |
| Switzerland | The Federal Council | Loan | A guarantee program to ensure that SMEs (individual companies, partnerships, legal entities) receive bridging loans from banks. | Generic | National | Businesses/Cultural institutions | 19000 | Not specified | Not specified | Approved |
| Switzerland | The Federal Council | Loan | Emergency aid in form of repayable interest-free loan in 2020 for non-profit cultural enterprises. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 95 | Not specified | The loans amount to a maximum of 30 percent of the company’s/individuals earnings in accordance with the last revised annual financial statements. | Approved |
| Switzerland | The Federal Council | Loan | Emergency aid in form of repayable interest-free loan in 2020 for cultural workers. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed/Employed | 24 | Not specified | The loans amount to a maximum of 30 percent of the company’s/individuals earnings in accordance with the last revised annual financial statements. | Approved |
| Switzerland | The Federal Council | Fund/Grant | Loss compensation (due to event cancellation/postponement) for profit and non-profit cultural enterprises and cultural workers. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 138 | Not specified | The default compensation covers a maximum of 80 percent of the financial loss. | Approved |
| Switzerland | The Federal Council | Fund/Grant | Financial support for amateur arts and culture associations. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 9,5 | Not specified | Not specified | Approved |
| Switzerland | The City of Zurich | Fund/Grant | Emergency aid for self-employed persons and micro-enterprises who have closed their business or lost many orders due to the corona virus. | Generic | Municipal | Self-employed/Small businesses | Not specified | EUR 2,400 | Unbureaucratic, rapid assistance. | Launched |
| United Kingdom | The Government of the United Kingdom | Employment aid | Support measures for businesses: loans, exemptions from business rates and contribution with up to 80% of employee salaries for three months. | Generic | National | Businesses | 377000 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| United Kingdom | The Government of the United Kingdom | Fund/Grant | Financial support for self-employed workers in the cultural sector. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | EUR 2,850 max. | The monthly sum (up to 80% of average monthly earnings over the past three financial years) will be distributed for three months | Announced |
| United Kingdom | The Government of the United Kingdom | Fund/Grant | Relief Package for the cultural sector. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 1800 | EUR108 million for Scotland, EUR66 million for Wales, EUR37 million for Northern Ireland, EUR134 million for capital projects, EUR112 million for museums, EUR301 million soft loans, EUR982 million grants (see UK country report for more details) | Not specified | Announced/Launched |
| United Kingdom | Arts Council England | Fund/Grant | Emergency Relief Package for creative organisations and artists. | Culture specific | National | Employed/Cultural Institutions | 160 | EUR 39,000 max. | Not specified | Launched |
| United Kingdom | Arts Council England | Fund/Grant | Emergency Relief Package for self-employed artists. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 22,8 | EUR 2,800 | Not specified | Launched |
| United Kingdom | The British Film Institute | Fund/Grant | COVID-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund (in partnership with the Film and TV Charity, with donation from Netflix) will provide short-term relief to active workers and self-employed, directly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. | Culture specific | National | Small businesses/Businesses | 1,14 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |
| United Kingdom | The Society of Authors Fund, Author’s Licensing & Collection Society, English PEN, Amazon UK, the Royal Literary Fund and T.S Eliot Foundation | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund for writers, poets, translators, illustrators, journalists and other authors. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | 0,38 | EUR 2,200 | Not specified | Not specified |
| United Kingdom | Historic England | Fund/Grant | Emergency response fund for heritage organisations. | Culture specific | National | Skilled crafts people and small heritage businesses | Not specified | EUR28,000 max. to address financial difficulties and EUR56,000 max. for projects that seek to reduce risks in heritage. | Not specified | Launched |
| United Kingdom | Theater Artists Fund | Fund/Grant | Emergency fund for theatre practitioners. | Culture specific | National | Self-employed | Not specified | One–off grants of EUR1,100 | Not specified | Launched |
| United Kingdom | Arts Council England | Fund/Grant | Assistance fund for the Council’s National Portfolio Organisations. | Culture specific | National | Cultural institutions | 100 | Not specified | Not specified | Announced |