The Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB) will incorporate five people in the coming months to try to be more up-to-date in the management of public subsidies granted by the institution. Three people have already joined and the rest will be incorporated in the coming months. In addition, the IEB has established a plan to improve the deadlines for the calls for grants in 2024.

Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB)

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The IEB manages more than five million euros of public subsidies such as promotion abroad, mobility, creation, fairs, festivals and professional conferences, research publishing and dissemination, among others. These subsidies are a great support for the cultural sector to move forward, given that it is a sector with a strong dependence on institutional support.

The improvement of the management of subsidies is one of the objectives of the IEB and the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports for this legislature, as it has been one of the major problems that have been detected after the various meetings with the cultural sectors that have been developed since the entry of Jaume Bauzà’s team in this department. In addition, it should be noted that during the month of January, face-to-face meetings will be held in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera to find out what the sector is asking for in order to improve the calls for grants.

It should be noted that at the beginning of the current legislature, the institution had more than 40% of the pending files for 2022, while currently only 10% remain to be settled. With regard to 2023, the institution is about to publish all the final resolutions of this year’s files.

The director of the IEB, Llorenç Perelló, affirms “that it is necessary to better manage all the initiatives carried out by this institution and to listen to the sector. That is why we will go to each of the islands to collect the demands”. In addition, Perelló adds that “it is noticeable that there was a lack of management, since some of these positions were budgeted and also created but not covered, therefore, there was a lack of political will”.