Deadline: 5 May 2020
House of Europe is seeking applications for its Digital Cooperation Grants with an aim to strengthen ties between creative and IT industries in Ukraine, the EU, and the UK, and encourage the invention of new forms of professional exchange and creativity.
They aim to support cultural dialogue between Ukraine and the EU even despite the COVID-19 pandemic and closed borders. Therefore they created digital cooperation grants — grants, funding collaborative cultural projects of Ukrainian and European organisations created for the digital space.
Grants encourage experiments, creativity, and innovations. Digital and social media arts, cloud-working, digital learning, institutional digitalisation, online exhibitions, concerts, conferences, and more are only a few of the ideas they can fund.
Digital Cooperation Grants are aimed to:
- Foster digital cooperation between Ukraine and the EU and to support in-depth cultural collaboration in the times of temporary limited mobility between countries
- Develop innovative new forms and formats of cultural expression through digital tools
- Contribute to dissemination and exchange of digital ideas, innovations, best practices, and literacies between EU and Ukraine
- Strengthen links between Ukrainian creative and IT industries and EU counterparts
- Develop human and institutional capacity
Funding Information
- The amount for digital cooperation grants can be up to EUR 25,000.
- Duration of the project must be from 3 to 12 months from the moment of the signing of the contract.
Target Groups
- Cultural operators
- Theater makers
- Hub managers
- Artists
- Music professionals
- Intellectuals
Eligibility Criteria
- Ukrainian registered public or state organisation with a proof of nonprofitability in cooperation with at least one organisation registered and working in the EU member state
OR
- Public or state organisation with a proof of non-profitability, registered in one of the EU member states in cooperation with at least one Ukrainian registered organisation with a proof of non-profitability
- With jointly developed project that focuses on cooperation
- With proven track record of implemented culture projects
- Planning to develop a new cultural product, format, platform, dissemination, technology
- Non-commercial
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
- Involvement of neighbouring non-EU countries as a third member is permitted and strongly encouraged.
- They are aware of the different legal forms that exist in EU countries and ask for suitable proof of non-profit status if the legal form does not determine this as such. In case of doubts, they ask applicants to approach us individually.
- New cultural product for the purposes of this project will be defined as a not publicly shown before activity/production/creation in the spheres of arts (performing arts, visual arts, architecture), heritage conservation (museums, galleries, libraries), the cultural industries (written media, broadcasting, film, recording), and festivals.
- If the project idea does not fall under one of the categories but identifies with the field of culture, it may still be eligible for application; the decision will be made on a case-by-case principle. This funding opportunity is open solely to registered institutions/NGOs. Private persons (including registered entrepreneurs) cannot apply
For more information, visit https://houseofeurope.org.ua/en/opportunity/58