The general objective of the project is to raise awareness of the impact that FCG's Grants have had on the artistic trajectories and artistic labour markets over the last ten years. To assess the individual but also collective impact of these scholarships, their dimensions, main characteristics and scenarios of future evolution, we will seek to identify significant changes in the professional lives of respondents, and how these grants, together with other factors, which we will investigate (such as awards, exhibitions abroad, educational institutions), may have transformed the trajectory of each of the respondents. We also hope to be able to characterize the importance of these grants for the development of arts and culture in the European labour market, through the career profiles of the scholarship holders, which we will obtain through multivariate analysis. We must carry out a survey of the predictive factors that, with scholarships, act as forces to consolidate and expand the success of individuals' career trajectories. The analysis of consistent empirical data - questionnaires and interviews with scholarship holders - will support future decision-making and monitoring.

The project ARQUIVAR O TEATRO/ARCHIVING THEATRE aims at locating, mapping and studying the situation of theatre archives in Portugal, to set up a plan of good practices involving an institutional network and theatre companies. The archives of Teatro da Cornucopia, a major force in the political and aesthetic renewal of theatre in Portugal after the 25th April Revolution and of Mário Barradas, the main promoter of theatrical decentralization, have been recently donated to the Centre for Theatre Studies / School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. Based on the analysis of these two important acquisitions, and extending the research methodology to the archives of other theatre companies in the country, ARCHIVING THEATRE intends to broaden the analysis of public and private conservation policies in order to foster ‘good practices’ of preservation, accessibility and study of (and with) the companies’ and artists’ archives. This will be achieved by disseminating the research results through a website, a booklet collection, two conferences, debates both in theatre and archival venues, and an e-book. The project stems from what was called “Independent” theatre - the umbrella term for the heterogeneous group of non-commercial companies that emerged after 1974. Extensively cartographing its national and international affiliations, descendants, and influences, it expects to contribute to the debates on the role of archival practices as recently reinvested by artists and academics alike, in the construction of critical transnational and decentered historiographies of the performing arts. ARCHIVING THEATRE will be the first project to approach this type of documentation to spot existing assets, gaps and archiving modalities practiced both by companies and institutions, in order to build a national map and intervene against the disappearance of information that is fundamental for our knowledge of the profound changes in the ways companies are organized, as well as...

Contributing to the production of regular results on the organization and work of artistic structures, improve the ex ante tools for policy evaluation and better inform decisions. The aim is to: - Analyze the functioning of the creative structures supported by DGArtes, their dynamics of artistic work, their logics of organization and the distribution and territorial impact of their activity; - Regularly monitor all information on structures in order to provide ongoing feedback to stakeholders and the general public (by promoting the accountability of DGArtes activity); - Promote an informed reflection on the design of public policies (equating and discussing possible criteria to be adopted for the logics of public funding to the artistic sector).