Supports for Staff and Students

DCU Arts and Culture Grant Scheme

In 2019, DCU established a pilot funding scheme to support the creativity of staff and students in line with its strategic goal to ‘nurture creativity and culture across the University’. The scheme has a focus on encouraging arts and culture proposals that allow for engagement with the wider DCU community and communities in North Dublin. Since then, this scheme has resulted in a range of arts and culture projects that reflect a number of key objectives:

• To support outcomes that reflect DCU’s strategic goals.
• To create new opportunities that bring the artistic talents of DCU staff and students to a wider audience.
• To build stronger engagement between DCU and the locality.
• To increase student participation and appreciation of arts and culture.
• To encourage arts groups and individuals to ‘break the mould’ by trying out new approaches to creating and presenting their work.

For full details on the funding scheme and how to apply click here.

These are some examples of projects that have been supported in the past.

Student Arts Bursary

The Office of Student Life, with support from the Educational Trust, offers a number of arts bursaries to full-time students involved in the Arts. The aim of the Arts Bursary, established in 2009, is to help DCU students to develop their artistic talents and to promote excellence in artistic and cultural activities in Dublin City University.  Details on eligibility and the application process can be found here.

Here are some examples of bursaries given.