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Media Aid Fund (MAF) the aim of the MAF is to support the media in the production of socially significant, informative and educational content and to strengthen the national cultural space in the Latvian language by supporting the production of non-commercial, socially significant journalism in the media, whose tasks are to strengthen the values set out in the Constitution, national consciousness, the Latvian cultural space, critical thinking, to promote media responsibility and quality, as well as the cohesion of society on the basis of the Latvian language.

MAF support is administered by the Society Integration Foundation from the budget allocated by the Ministry of Culture.

The rules and application forms can be found under "Project calls" (LV).

Support to media for the production of socially relevant content and strengthening of the national cultural space in Latvian

The aim of the programme is to support the media in producing socially relevant content and to strengthen the national cultural space in the Latvian language by supporting the production of non-commercial, socially relevant journalism in the media.
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Support to media for the production of socially relevant content in Latvian in thematic categories

The aim of the programme is to support the media in producing socially relevant content and to strengthen the national cultural space in the Latvian language by supporting the production of non-commercial, socially relevant journalism in the media.
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Regional and local media support programme

The aim of the programme is to support the media in producing socially relevant content and to strengthen the national cultural space in the Latvian language by supporting the production of non-commercial, socially relevant journalism in the media.
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Support for strengthening the capacity of the Latgale region media to produce news and analytical content

The aim of the programme is to provide support to strengthen the content production capacity of media in the Latgale region in order to enhance the provision of up-to-date and accurate information to residents on the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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For the production of regional news television stories in 2022

The aim of the programme is to ensure the production and broadcasting of news items of public importance in Latvian regions by VSIA "Latvijas Televīzija".
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Support for the media to mitigate the negative effects of the Covid-19 crisis

The programme aims to support the continuity and capacity building of commercial print and digital media, as well as the production of content of public interest in times of emergency.
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Support to media for capacity-building and to cover the costs of supplying subscription print media and of broadcasting television and radio programmes of the electronic media

The objective of the programme is to provide support to media for capacity building and to cover the costs of supplying subscription print media and the costs of broadcasting television and radio programmes in the electronic media.
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Ieva Plūme

Head of the Unit
ieva.plume [at] sif.gov.lv