The goal is to mitigate the effects of insularity and align conditions with university students
The application period opens next Monday, June 9, and ends on July 31, with the entire process carried out online.
The Ministry of Education and Universities has announced grants for students from the Balearic Islands who must travel to another island or outside the archipelago to pursue official higher artistic education during the 2024–2025 academic year. The grants also include support for transporting musical instruments.
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Education Increases Travel Grants for Higher Artistic Education Students to €1,600
These grants aim to offset the additional costs caused by insularity. On the one hand, they provide financial assistance for travel and accommodation outside the student’s home island. On the other hand, they cover the extraordinary costs of transporting musical instruments with special characteristics.
For the 2024–2025 academic year, the call includes two compatible grant categories. The travel grant can reach up to €1,600 per applicant, representing an increase of €600 compared to the previous academic year and aligning the amount with that received by university students in similar situations. In parallel, the instrument transport grant remains capped at €400, with the new feature of allowing the subsidisation of shipments carried out independently from the student’s journey.
General eligibility requirements include having Spanish nationality or being a citizen of an EU member state, residing in the Balearic Islands throughout the academic year, and enrolling in a minimum of 42 credits in higher artistic education programs. Applicants must also meet academic performance criteria: a minimum average grade of 5 for first-year students and having passed at least 90% of the enrolled credits in the previous academic year for returning students.
Eligible applicants include, among others, students from Menorca, Ibiza, or Formentera who must move to Mallorca, as well as students from any island who need to pursue higher artistic education programs not offered in the Balearic Islands, whether in public or private institutions in the rest of Spain or the EU-27. Excluded from this grant are university students, students in non-official programs, doctoral candidates, and those enrolled in distance learning modalities.
The application period will run from June 9 to July 31, 2025. Applications must be submitted exclusively online via the CAIB Electronic Office, and require a digital signature using an electronic DNI, FNMT certificate, or advanced-level Cl@ve Permanente. Applicants must review and correct any documentation from September 1 to 5, 2025, when the provisional report on corrections will be published.
With this initiative, the Ministry of Education and Universities reaffirms its commitment to ensuring that no student from the Balearic Islands has to forgo quality higher artistic education due to financial or geographical barriers, thus promoting creative talent and cultural development across the archipelago.