More than 3,400 young Asturians born in 2008 have applied for the Young Cultural Voucher 2026 in its first month of validity. Throughout Spain, applications have exceeded the figure of 202,000 in a month.
It is the fifth edition of this program promoted by the Ministry of Culture that grants 400 euros to each person who has reached or has reached the age of majority this year. A quantity that, for the first time, can be used not only for the consumption of cultural products, but also for the acquisition of musical instruments, materials for artistic creation and cultural courses.
Thus, with the desire to promote creativity as part of the development of young people and access to culture from a more active and participatory role, the Young Cultural Voucher 2026 allows you to choose between two modalities:
Modality 1: The 400 euros of aid can be distributed among these areas:
Ø Live and audiovisual arts, cultural heritage and means of artistic creation and artistic material (up to 200 euros): Tickets and subscriptions for performing arts, live music, cinema, museums, assets belonging to the Spanish historical heritage, libraries, exhibitions, courses in face-to-face mode on subjects related to culture, scenic, literary, musical or audiovisual festivals, musical instruments, musical scores, photographic cameras and computer programs aimed specifically at production, creation and creative practice.
Ø Cultural products on physical support (up to 100 euros): books, magazines, press, or other periodicals, video games, vinyl records, and CDs.
Ø Digital or online consumption (up to 100 euros): Subscriptions to music, reading, or audio-visual platforms, purchase of audiobooks, digital books, songs, or digital albums through music selling platforms, subscription to download multimedia files (including podcasts), online courses on culture-related subjects, and digital subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals.
Modality 2: The total amount of aid may be allocated to a single category to choose from: courses and workshops on cultural content (in face-to-face and online formats), musical instruments or means of creation and artistic material.
In addition, the Ministry of Culture is collaborating with the Third Sector Platform to make the Young Cultural Bonus increasingly accessible to the most vulnerable sectors of the population. Its contribution makes it possible to broaden the dissemination of the current call for the Voucher and to help young people from these sectors of the population to carry out the application process.
Requests
To apply for the Young Cultural Voucher 2026, people who have reached or will reach 18 years of age this year must register and carry out the application procedure on the web https://bonoculturajoven.gob.es/ until next October 31st.
In addition to the requirement of majority reached in this 2026, in order to obtain the Voucher, the person must have Spanish nationality and legal residence in Spain, or be an asylum seeker, temporary displaced or foreign ex tutelada. In total, and according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, throughout Spain there are 561,459 people with these characteristics. Of them, 9,277 reside in Asturias.
Finally, it is essential to obtain one of these three forms of digital identification:
- Cl@ve with basic registration (which can be requested and obtained by video call)
- Cl@ve with advanced registration (face-to-face and for those who have not yet reached the age of 18)
The procedure can be done on your own behalf 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 the representation.
About the Young Cultural Bonus
From the granting of the aid, young people have one year to use the 400 euros in the establishments adhered, 3,952 throughout Spain, 95 of them in Asturias. The Young Cultural Voucher works with a prepaid card that each beneficiary can have virtually on their mobile or receive physically at home.
The Young Cultural Bonus is regulated by the Royal Decree, with 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 State Budgets extended.
In 2022, the first year of validity of this initiative, a total of 277,607 people obtained the Young Cultural Bonus throughout Spain. In 2023, the figure rose to 323,668. In 2024, there were 334,435 beneficiaries, while in its fourth edition, in 2025, there were 363,054 young people who enjoyed this aid. In total, in these four years of life of the Young Cultural Voucher, the number of young beneficiaries already reaches 1,298,764 people.