CFPs: Support of Ukrainian Immigrants and the Cultural & Creative Sectors

Deadline: 29-Nov-22

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is inviting applications to Support the Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors.

Objectives

• Culture is one of the building blocks of any nation. Cultural expression and access to culture are indispensable elements to live and help them deal with traumatic events, build individual and collective resilience and a perspective for a post -war future.
• The war in Ukraine has devastating effects on the Ukrainian cultural heritage and on cultural organisations and artists that cannot operate and reach out to their national and international audience. Additionally, many Ukrainian displaced people and children fleeing the war and currently staying in other locations in Ukraine or in other Creative Europe countries, will not be able to return to their pre-war locations because of destruction. Those staying in other Creative Europe countries will have to interact with their new communities to facilitate their reciprocal integration.
• Culture and the arts have proven to be an efficient tool to connect people from different backgrounds and facilitate integration. The objective of the special call is to help the Ukrainian cultural and creative organisations, as well as artists and professionals to address the following challenges in the short and medium term:
  • Objective – short term
    • Support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to create and showcase their art and works in Ukraine and in Creative Europe participating countries
    • Help Ukrainians displaced by the war, in particular children, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries, have access to culture and/or facilitate their integration into their new communities through culture. In this context, adequate attention should be given to the consequences which the war inflicted on mental health.
  • Objective– medium term
    • Prepare the post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural sectors through needs assessments, capacity building and investment planning
    • Prepare and train Ukrainian cultural heritage professionals with regard to the protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage from risks.
    • The achievement of these objectives, especially the post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural sectors should be built on Ukraine’s new status as an EU candidate country.

Thematical and Priorities

• This action will support projects on cultural cooperation between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries encouraging the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of concrete practices on how culture and the arts can contribute to wartime resilience and post-war recovery. All proposals shall take into consideration the cross-cutting issues of inclusion, diversity, gender equality, and environment and fight against climate change in the design and the implementation of their project.

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 5 000 000
• Support will be given to three projects, as indicated below:
  • Max EUR 2 000 000 to address
    • Support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to create and showcase their art and works. Proposals addressing this objective should demonstrate through adequate experience a good capacity to finance a large number of small projects through cascading grants,
  • Max EUR 2 000 000 to address objective.
    • Help through culture Ukrainians displaced by the war, in particular children, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries to have access to culture and/or facilitate their reciprocal integration into their new communities through culture. Proposals addressing this objective should demonstrate through adequate experience a good capacity to finance a large number of small projects through cascading grants.
    • Max EUR 1 000 000 to address objective – medium term (including both  – post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural sectors and – prepare and train Ukrainian cultural heritage professionals).
  • Duration: Projects should not normally exceed 36 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).

Eligible Activities

• Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities Financial support to third parties is allowed for grants or prizes under the following conditions:
  • The calls must be open, published widely and conform to EU standards concerning transparency, equal treatment, conflict of interest and confidentiality
  • The calls must remain open for at least two months
  • The outcome of the call must be published on the participants’ websites, including a description of the selected projects,, award dates, project durations,
  • And final recipient legal names and countries.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • Creative Europe Participating Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  • Non-EU countries:
    • Listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
    • Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
    • Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.

Consortium Composition

• Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
• At least one organisation of the consortium is based in Ukraine and
• At least one organisation of the consortium is based in another Creative Europe participating country.

For more information, visit https://creativeeurope.in.ua/programs/85