‘Culture Helps / Культура допомагає’ opens a call for applications for project mini grants for cultural organisations to implement projects focused on integration of people, who were forced to leave their homes because of the Russian war against Ukraine.
The project idea must be focused on displaced people or refugees, facilitating their integration into new contexts through culture, and support of 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 call will support around 20 project grants. A total of 70% of the total grants are expected to be disbursed in Ukraine, 30% in Creative Europe countries.
Eligibility criteria:
- A non-profit organisation or an independent initiative, based in Ukraine or a Creative Europe country.
- Actively working on the integration of displaced people or refugees from Ukraine into new realities and communities through culture, in particular families and children.
During the first two rounds of the project grants programme, the organisers realised that among organisations there is a request for coherence, supervision and curatorial support during preparation, implementation and summing up the results of the work. Therefore, in this round, they are launching a mentoring support programme as an opportunity for selected participants to ask for support when and where needed. The programme will include a series of lectures on project management, art therapy methods, and the development of skills for applying art therapy methods at work, and other cultural practices working on mental health. Also, mentors will accompany the supported organisations during the implementation of projects and the preparation of reports if needed.
Minimum amount of the grant is 2,000 EUR and the maximum is 5,000 EUR.
