This new integration has ensured the broader coverage of the national territory, including the autonomous regions and helped to promote territorial decentralization.

The nine spaces that have now joined RPAC are: the Galeria Aqui d'El Arte, in Vila Viçosa, the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, in Serpa, the Casa da Cerca - Contemporary Art Center, in Almada, the Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto, in Coimbra, the Kunsthalle Lissabon, the Católica Art Center, in Porto, the International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture and the Alberto Carneiro Art Center, both in Santo Tirso.

The first phase of RPAC memberships took place between September 15 and November 18, 2022. In January of this year, a new phase was reopened, and since then the accreditation process has been open on a permanent basis for other organisations wishing to submit their applications in the future.

Meanwhile, the first RPAC support programme opened in April last year, the results of which were announced in March this year, with an allocation of €2 million to fund 19 projects involving 41 entities from all over the country.

The second RPAC support programme is foreseen in the DGArtes annual declaration for 2024, published on March 28, still under the management of the previous Government. The funds and deadlines for opening this competition, as well as the eight competitions for the project support programme and the Arte e Coesão Territorial partnership support programme, will be defined by the new government, which took office on April 2.

The government decree that created the Portuguese Contemporary Art Network, published in the Diário da República on May 11, 2021, defines it as a dynamic platform that will promote the interaction of 120 identified institutions spread across Portugal.

This network project began with the installation of the Coimbra Contemporary Art Centre, based on the works belonging to the collection of the former Banco Português de Negócios (BPN), at the same time that the government launched a mapping the spaces dedicated to contemporary art in the national territory.