Fostering Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage

This program specifically targets organisations in Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will act as intermediaries, responsible for distributing funds through cascading grants. The initiative is designed to bolster Ukraine's cultural and creative sectors, ensuring access to culture and cultural heritage, especially for displaced individuals, and promoting social cohesion.

The program focuses on supporting cultural cooperation projects within the cultural and creative sectors, with a particular emphasis on cultural heritage. Supported activities involve the development, experimentation, dissemination, and application of practices that contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery through arts and culture.

This program provides grant funding, with a total budget of 4,000,000 € allocated specifically for Topic 2 of the call. The funding is designed to enable selected intermediaries to re-distribute grants via a cascading mechanism, though no specific maximum funding amount per sub-project is indicated in this document.

Applicants must adhere to specific administrative and procedural conditions as outlined in the call document, including requirements for proposal submission. Projects selected under this call are expected to involve collaborative efforts (consortia) between Ukrainian organisations and their counterparts from other Creative Europe countries, and must align with overarching EU priorities, including those related to AI and Digital Agenda.

The application period for this call has concluded. The process involved submission by a set deadline, followed by an evaluation period and subsequent communication of results and grant agreement signatures.

This funding program is legally underpinned by key European Union regulations, primarily the Creative Europe Regulation 2021/818, along with broader EU financial rules and specific guidelines for grant agreements. Official texts are accessible via the Funding and Tenders Portal.