Financial partners, foundations, businesses, public administrations and private sponsors can be involved with one or more aspects of the New Patrons programme:

• democratic innovation
• technical progress specific to certain artworks
• formal invention relating to environmental conservation
• symbolic and spiritual elements
• educational impact, cohesion and equality, quality of life and sustainable economic development etc.

The New Patrons programme ranges from local to regional, from national to European. It emphasizes pragmatic and targeted intervention, but also seeks to support initiatives with a global resonance.