Deadline: 1-Aug-23
Culture Helps – an EU co-funded project implemented by Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE) — opens a call for applications for collaboration grants.
The Collaboration grants programme offers support for cultural organisations that emphasises work with people, who have been forced to move to safer regions of Ukraine or Creative Europe countries because of the russia’s war in Ukraine.
The project idea must be focused on displaced people or refugees, facilitation of their integration into new contexts through culture, and offer activities that respond to processing war trauma and support of their mental health. Additional efforts should be put into involving families and children in the project activities. The proposed activities can have a form of workshops, co-creation processes, educational projects, art therapy or similar.
Funding Information
- Maximum amount of the grant is €25.000 for collaboration of two organisations, maximum €40.000 for collaboration between three organisations.
- 50% of the total grants are expected to be disbursed in Ukraine, 50% in Creative Europe countries.
Eligibility Criteria
- A non-profit organisation or registered collectives, who can provide a proof of their non-commercial status, based in Ukraine and a Creative Europe country.
- At least one of the applicants must actively work on the integration of displaced people or refugees from Ukraine into new realities and communities through culture, in particular families and children.
- Applicants should not receive the funding from any other Creative Europe scheme for the project(s) they apply with.
- It is possible to team up for 2 or 3 partner organisations to prepare the collaboration. In the case of 3 organisations, 2 organisations can be registered in Ukraine and 1 in another CE country, or 1 in Ukraine and 2 in different other CE countries. They will not accept applications from 2 organisations from the same CE country (that is not Ukraine).
- Organisations without existing partners who are interested in applying for grants will have the opportunity to participate in a series of moderated community calls that will serve as a helpdesk, providing assistance with grant applications and facilitating matchmaking between organisations.
For more information, visit Zusa.