Translation Awards and Grants of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – 2025

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation promotes the dissemination of Italian publishing and cinematographic works abroad by providing incentives to translation and dubbing/subtitling initiatives, as a strategic tool for promoting Italian language and culture abroad.

The Foreign Ministry provides two types of financial incentives:

Grants for the translation of an Italian literary work, which has not yet been published abroad, and for the production, dubbing and subtitling of short/feature-length films and TV series; 

Prize to an Italian work already translated abroad.

Proposals must be presented annually to the Italian Cultural Institutes and Italian diplomatic and consular representations abroad, according to the Call regulations. The expiry for submitting a proposal for the 2025 edition is 7 April 2025.

2025 ENG Bando Premi e Contributi[1]

Bando Premi e contributi alla traduzione – edizione 2025

Modulo di domanda

Elenco opere assegnatarie di contributi MAECI 2024

Regolamento premi e contributi MAECI (DM 593/1995)

Modifiche regolamento premi e contributi MAECI (DM 159/2014)

Modifiche regolamento premi e contributi MAECI (DM 236/2021)