Continuing Education Grants for the Open Academy of the Iceland Academy of the Arts

A scheme of continuing-education grants to support professionals enrolled in courses at the Open Academy of the Iceland Academy of the Arts. The grants are intended for practitioners in visual arts, design, architecture, music, film and photography and help facilitate access to specialised workshops delivered in Reykjavík. Funding is provided via partner trade-union training funds, employer subsidies and labour-market supports and can cover part or all of course fees. Eligibility and exact amounts depend on the rules of each partner fund or trade-union.

Partial or full coverage of workshop/course fees; financial support via partner trade-union training funds; specific support for jobseekers through the Directorate of Labour; possible employer/company subsidies.

Professionals in activity or jobseekers in Iceland who are members of a partner trade-union or professional training fund and who are officially enrolled or accepted to a course at the Open Academy; applicants must meet the allocation criteria of the relevant union/fund.

Choose a course at the Open Academy, contact your trade-union or training fund to confirm entitlements, submit the fund's grant application form with proof of course enrolment and payee documentation, then finalise administrative registration with the Academy.