The young cultural bond, a program promoted by the Ministry of Culture, start your fourth edition. From Monday, June 16, and until October 31, people born in 2007 can request this aid of 400 euros that may allocate to the acquisition and enjoyment of cultural products, services and activities. To request it, people who have fulfilled or are going to turn 18 in 2025 must register and carry out the application procedure on their website.
It will be essential that, previously, the interested parties obtain one of these three forms of digital identification: cl@go with basic record (which can be requested and obtained by video call), cl@sees with advanced record (in person and for those who have not yet turned 18) or the digital certificate.
Young people interested in requesting the Young Cultural Bonus can carry out the procedure in their own name or through the representation of an adult, for which it is necessary to attach the downloadable representation form on the website, correctly signed by the beneficiary. In these cases, the family book is not a document accrediting representation.
To this help are entitled by young people who turn 18 in 2025 who are of Spanish nationality, have legal residence in Spain, whether asylum applicants, temporary or foreigners displaced ex -protos. According to data from the National Statistics Institute, it is 14,282 potential beneficiaries in Aragon, of the 534,526 potential beneficiaries throughout the country.
About the Young Cultural Bonus
From the granting of the aid, the young people have one year to use the 400 euros in cultural products or services in the adhered establishments, 3,700 throughout Spain, 90 of them in Aragon. The young cultural bonus works with a prepaid card that the beneficiary can have virtually on his mobile or receive physically at home. With that card you can enjoy cultural experiences and products, which are divided into three categories to favor the diversification of spending, with the following distribution:
– 100 euros for physical products, for example, books, press or records.
– 100 euros for digital products, such as platform subscriptions, digital press, podcast or online video games.
– 200 euros for performing arts: theater, opera, cinema, dance, museums, etc.
The objective of the Ministry of Culture with this initiative has a double meaning: on the one hand, it shows the interest of a broad spectrum of the young Spanish population for culture, which this initiative helps to loyalty as a public and cultural consumer for the future; And, on the other hand, it offers additional support to the cultural sector.
The young cultural bond is regulated by the Royal Decree, with an indefinite validity, which the Council of Ministers approved on March 21, 2023, at the proposal of the Minister of Culture. It has an endowment of 170 million euros in the General Budgets of the PorroGados State. In 2022, the first year of validity of this initiative, obtained the young cultural bond a total of 277,607 people throughout Spain; In 2023, the figure amounted to 319,237 and in 2024 the beneficiaries were 334,435.
