‘Culture Helps / Культура допомагає’ is a project co-funded by the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors, which is a cooperation between Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE).
The Collaboration grants programme offers support for cultural organisations that emphasise work with people, who have been forced to move to safer regions of Ukraine or Creative Europe countries because of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The project idea must be focused on displaced people or refugees, facilitate their integration into new contexts through culture to promote dialogue and mutual understanding, and offer activities that respond to processing war trauma and support their mental health. Additional efforts should be put into involving families and children in the project activities. The proposed activities can have the form of workshops, co-creation processes, educational projects, art therapy or similar.
Each collaboration needs at least one partner from Ukraine and one partner from another Creative Europe country. Applicants should be based in Ukraine or another Creative Europe country and correspond to one of the following categories:
- Non-profit organisations
- Public or private bodies, provided that they can prove the organisation’s non-commercial status
- The project proposal will not generate any profit
- At least one of the applicants must actively work on the integration of displaced people or refugees from Ukraine into new realities and communities through culture, in particular families and children
- Applicants should not receive funding from any other Creative Europe scheme for the project(s) they apply with
Activities under this call can start from 14 May 2024 and should end by 30 November 2024.
Successful applicants of the collaboration grants can receive a maximum of 25,000 EUR for the implementation of international partnership projects between two organisations and a maximum of 40,000 EUR for a partnership between three organisations.
