The Office of Support for Cultural Initiative, created as a result of Law 7/2011, of 27 July, on fiscal and financial measures, is responsible for approving the regulatory bases, processing and resolving the procedures for granting aid in this area. cultural, at the proposal of the competent department or of the competent entities in matters of culture.
Its creation is part of the one-stop shop project, which has its origins in the need to unify in a single access portal the entire system of subsidies, the bodies of the Department of Culture and the affiliated public entities, in order to facilitate the processes for interested parties and promote electronic processing. In order to achieve these goals, the last call for cultural grants, facilitate electronically access to information, the submission of applications, the provision of documentation and to know the status of processing, and also, with the unified management of the processing of grants, have been modernized procedures, simplified requirements, documents and forms and reduced grant and payment deadlines.
