Culture Helps: collaboration grants for integration through culture

Sector: Culture and creative industries
Type: Grant
Location: Ukraine and EU
Deadline: Finished
Organiser: Other

These are grants for projects for Ukrainian refugees, created in cooperation with partners from Europe. A series of open lectures on mental health, weekly painting workshops, and a good neighbourliness festival — you will have up to EUR 40,000 for a project to help Ukrainians feel at home in a new place.

Choose partners among EU organisations and 13 other countries. If you still need to get a partner, join the online meeting on 5 March, where you can find partners and consult about the application.

You will need to implement the project by 30 November 2024.

The project is implemented by Insha Osvita and zusa (Germany) with the financial support of the EU. This is one of thousands of EU opportunities for Ukraine.

More about the project

What do I get?
  • Up to EUR 25,000 if you apply in collaboration with one organisation.
  • Up to EUR 40,000 if you apply in collaboration with two organisations.
  • Mentorship, online workshops and participation in a networking event.
Can I apply?

Grants are perfect for cultural organisations that:

  • Are officially registered in Ukraine, EU, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Armenia or Tunisia.
  • Have a non-profit status.
  • Have experience in the integration of displaced people into new communities through culture.

Check the participation details at the link

What do I need to apply?

Completed application form that includes: 

  • Information on your organisation: general description, info about the experience of working with IDPs and brief biographies of the team members.  
  • Project description: relevance, a problem the project addresses, activities, target audience, expected results and the grant amount necessary for its implementation.
  • Budget in a form.
How do I apply?

By 10 April, fill out the application form. The working language is English.

If you need help with the application, contact culturehelps@zusaculture.org. Find the answers to frequently asked questions here.

Good to know
  • You can check all the questions from the application here, but to apply, fill out the application form
  • The organisers will support ten projects. You will find the results no later than 13 May.
  • You cannot apply for the competition if your project already receives funding under other Creative Europe programmes.
  • If you apply in cooperation with three organisations, two of them may be registered in Ukraine, and one may be registered in another Creative Europe country, or vice versa. Note that two partner organisations cannot be registered in the same region.

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