The Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs distributes 317,337 euros …

The Governing Council of the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (IEI) has resolved the call for grants for the production of books, magazines, and publications of cultural, local, and regional interest for the Terres de Lleida for the years 2025 and 2026, with a distribution of 317,337.96 euros among city councils, publishing companies, and cultural entities. The agreement is numbered 7/26, was adopted in an extraordinary session on November 5, 2026, and is published in full in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida number 217, dated November 12, 2026 (CVE BOP-2026_0_217_9570). The publication serves as notification to the interested parties, in accordance with article 45.1.b) of Law 39/2015.

The call is addressed to city councils in the counties of Lleida, professional publishers and private companies with a tax domicile in the province, and non-profit entities with a headquarters or delegation in the territory, for works published or edited in the Catalan or Occitan languages. The authorized budget remains at 330,000 euros, but its internal distribution has been modified to adjust to the final allocation: the line destined for publishing companies has decreased by 81,270.37 euros in favor of cultural associations.

Three grant lines and a budget readjustment

2026 070 334 4620003 – Grants for City Councils, publication of works: 50,000.00 € initial, +5,151.11 €, final amount of 55,151.11 €.
2026 070 334 4790004 – Grants for companies, publication of works: 200,000.00 € initial, −81,270.37 €, final amount of 118,729.63 €, of which 106,067.59 € are granted.
2026 070 334 4800004 – Grants for Associations, cultural projects: 80,000.00 € initial, +76,119.26 €, final and granted amount of 156,119.26 €.

City councils: municipal magazines and local history books

The municipal line finances 25 projects from eighteen local entities, with amounts between 438.31 and 4,500 euros. The highest contributions are:

Vallfogona de Balaguer City Council: €4,500.00 for a book on the history of the municipality since the arrival of the water from the Urgell canal.
Montella i Martinet City Council: €3,750.00 for «Les Veus del Cadí».
Albesa City Council: €3,750.00 for «El Retaule de pedra d’Albesa».
Térmens City Council: €3,500.00 for «Fútbol a Térmens: more than a hundred years of history (1908-2025)».
Torrefarrera City Council: €3,500.00 for the history of the town since its beginnings.
Castellnou de Seana City Council: €3,327.75 for the history of the municipality’s orchestra.
Subsidized municipal magazines: «Alendir» from Benavent de Segrià, «5 boqueres» from Sudanell, «Full informatiu» from Pinell, «Del Poble» from Bell-lloc d’Urgell, «El Santguimenc anuari» from Sant Guim de Freixenet, «lo Pas Nou» from Vilanova de Meià, «Cipelles» from Llimiana and «El Portell de las 12» from El Poal.

Publishers and companies: up to 5,000 euros per project

The second line distributes €106,067.59 among 35 projects from twelve beneficiaries, including two natural persons.

El Genet Blau SCCL obtains the highest grant: €5,000.00 for «La nena de Sarajevo», the project with the maximum score (100 points); it also receives €4,500.00 for «Contes de la valamagada» and €4,000.00 for «Ai! Ai! El Marraco».
La Fatal SL adds four projects of €4,500.00, including the work of Ferran Sáez Mateu, Arnau Barios’s translation of a life of Tolstoy, «Sota la pell, un arbre» by Pere Pena and the «Dietari d’insensibilitats» by Edgar Tello.
Edicions Salòria SL receives seven grants, with a maximum of €4,250.00 for «Antologia» and €4,000.00 for «Moixeró» and «Zoo literari».
Pagès Editors SL: €4,250.00 for «La legió blanca» and €4,000.00 for «lleida».
Editorial Fonoll SL and Territori de Masies SCCL obtain four and six projects respectively, with amounts between 1,445 and 4,000 euros.
Roser Guasch Garrofé (€2,000.00, €640.00 and €2,177.00) and Natàlia Virgili Riera (€3,190.59 for «Ruth, de Guillem Viladot») are the natural persons who are beneficiaries.
Regional media receive grants of €1,800.00 per project: Informació de Comarques SL, Edicions Nova Tàrrega SLU, Lerinform Lleida SLU and Produccions Lleidatanes de Comunicació SL.

Around forty cultural entities and local magazines

The largest contribution to associations, €5,000.00, corresponds to the Centre d’Estudis Lacetans for «Aiguafina. Els camins de l’aigua», scored with 100 points. Other notable grants:

Associació Cultural Fonoll: €4,250.00 for the book on the sixty years of the Juneda parish, €3,150.00 for the fifty years of skating, and €2,400.00 for the Fonoll 2026 magazine.
Associació Pirineu Dinàmic: €4,000.00 for «El Joc a la Ribera del Segre» and €3,750.00 for «La Flora a la Cerdanya».
L’Arada, Creativitat Social: €3,750.00 for the «Territori de Masies» project and €3,750.00 for the «Projecte Molsa» on the peasantry of Molsosa.
Associació Cultural de Golmés and Mangrana Cultura SCCL: €3,000.00 each, with 100 evaluation points.
Magazines: «La Palanca» (€2,700.00), «SomGarrigues» (€2,550.00), «Sió» by the Col·lectiu Redactors d’Agramunt (€2,550.00), «Baridana» (€1,520.00), «El Pregoner d’Urgell» (€1,662.50), «Portaveu del Segre Mitjà» (€2,125.00), and «Quaerendo Invenietis» in Aranese by Aranmedia Cultura (€2,360.41).

Remaining balance, budgetary condition, and resources

The agreement states that there are no denied or archived files, and that the unused credit balance, 12,662.04 euros, is allocated to the line of grants for publishing companies. The expenditure is subject to the approval of the corresponding credit modification, and the grant will be communicated to the National Grants Database.

Against the resolution, which ends the administrative route, a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Lleida within two months, or a motion for reconsideration before the Governing Council of the IEI within one month. The agreement is signed by the president, Joan Talarn Gilabert, dated November 9, 2026.

The distribution confirms the growing weight of associative movements and local magazines in the support policy for local publishing, while large publishers and regional media see their share reduced despite obtaining aid between 2% and 7% of the cost of their projects. For the beneficiary publishers, associations, and city councils, publication in the official bulletin is the step that activates the processing of the grant.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Lleida, no. 217, November 12, 2026, Local Administration - Diputació de Lleida, pp. 1-11 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_217_9570).