House of Europe seeking Proposals for Infrastructure Grants in Ukraine

Deadline: 28 April 2020

To preserve Ukrainian culture and support organizations that have long been its inevitable part during the COVID-19 pandemic, House of Europe has launched the infrastructure grants.

Grants fund the equipment needed to adjust the work of your organisation to the new, digital reality. If you have a plan on how to reach the audience in the times of quarantine, but lack funding for the computers and software, you can apply for a grant. They can also support the NGOs that are having hard times paying the salaries and covering the rent.

Infrastructural Grants #2 is designed to:

support cultural organizations that have a clear plan with continued active activity during and after quarantine completion;
give cultural organizations the opportunity to develop digital infrastructure, including to provide remote access of employees to participation in work processes.

Funding Information

A grant to purchase digital infrastructure to organise the workflow during the quarantine: computers, software, and other digital equipment. Mind that the equipment you are planning to purchase should be in use even after the quarantine is over. NGOs can spend the grant on official wages and long-term rental.

There are two types of grants:

Large grants from EUR 3,000 to EUR 9,000 for cultural organisations from cities of 50,000 people and more
Small grants up to EUR 3,000 for cultural organisations from villages and towns of up to 50,000 people

Duration

The duration of the grant is up to 3 months.
If the grant involves the purchase of equipment, its duration use should be from 12 to 36 months.
The time to purchase the equipment and report on the grant is 30 days from the moment each of the two tranches (approximately 80% and 20%, respectively).

Target Audience

Wide-ranging organizations can get support the spectrum of the cultural and creative sectors, including but not limited to:

libraries and museums;
visual art;
creative spaces and platforms;
tangible and intangible cultural heritage;
music;
performative arts;
houses of culture;
art schools;
children’s, youth circles;
Inclusion.

Eligibility Criteria

The competition registered in Ukraine can participate in:
- Non-profit public organizations working in the field of culture and youth, including mugs, art spaces, activist associations, other non-state cultural institutions, etc.;
- state and communal cultural institutions (including but not limited to) exclusively houses of culture, libraries, museums, art and music schools, circles, etc.).
Applications are accepted only from legal entities – as applicants directly (such as cultural houses or galleries), and from them balance holders (for example, cultural offices, rural or city councils).
One legal entity may submit only one application.
One legal entity may apply to the grant project immediately several cultural institutions that are or are affiliated with it structural units.

The following may not participate in the competition: