The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation promotes the dissemination of Italian publishing and cinematographic works abroad by providing incentives to translation and dubbing/subtitling initiatives, as a strategic tool for promoting Italian language and culture abroad.
The Foreign Ministry provides two types of financial incentives:
- Grants for the translation of an Italian literary work, which has not yet been published abroad, and for the production, dubbing and subtitling of short/feature-length films and TV series;
- Awards for an Italian work already translated abroad
Proposals must be presented annually to the Italian Cultural Institutes and Italian diplomatic and consular representations abroad, according to the Call regulations.
Grants and awards for translations offered by MAECI 2024
ATTENTION: Applications must be received by the Italian Cultural Institute no later than April 12, 2024.
Grants and awards for translations offered by MAECI 2023
Grants and awards for translations offered by MAECI 2022 (DEADLINE: May 6, 2022)
Grants and awards for translations offered by MAECI and MIBACT 2021 (DEADLINE: May 7, 2021)
Grants and awards for translations offered by MAECI and MIBACT 2020