Deadline: 20-Jul-2025
Applications are now open for the Grants for Professionals Documenting the War in Ukraine to support public intellectuals, scientists, journalists, writers, translators, archivists, artists and film directors from Ukraine.
You can win emergency support if you work on documentation projects that establish and preserve a factual record of the war through reporting, gathering published source material, collecting oral testimony, and bringing meaning to events through artistic interpretation.
Funding Information
- Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects documenting the experience of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war or providing intellectual or artistic reflections on these events.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can win a grant if you are:
- A journalist who continues to cover events in Ukraine
- A writer working on texts that, in particular, convey their personal experience of war
- A scientist conducting or preparing for publication research in various fields on the impact of war on both people and the environment, urban space, the country as a whole, etc
- A public intellectual who works with both Ukrainian and foreign audiences
- A filmmaker or artist working on war-related projects
- A translator working on making current texts accessible to the Ukrainian reader
- An archives staff working to document the impact of war
- Other professionals documenting war
- They welcome applications from academics from any discipline, public intellectuals, writers, publishers, artists (including but not limited to documentary filmmakers and photographers), archivists and preservationists, media professionals and journalists.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They are not equipped to work with projects that deal with legal aspects of war crimes, materials which are legally intended for use in international and national courts. Moreover, due to ethical concerns we largely abstain from projects which involve minors.
Application Requirements
- Completed application form
- CV
- Motivation letter that addresses the project’s significance and relates to the mission of Documenting Ukraine
- Project abstract you will work on – up to 1,000 characters
- Project description, including planned activities, significance, team, and desired outcome — up to three pages
- Full name and contact details of one reference person
- If available, include text, photos, and links to video materials that will strengthen your application
- All application materials must be combined into a single PDF file.
For more information, visit House of Europe.