Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors Programme

Deadline: 06-Feb-2025

The European Commission has launched Programme to support the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors.

Objectives

• The general objectives of the Programme are:
  • to safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage.
  • to increase the competitiveness and the economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audio-visual sector.
• The objective of this call for proposals is to select projects to respond to the abovementioned challenges and to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries.
• Support will be given to 3 cooperation projects, addressing the following topics (one project per topic):
  • Topic 1: supporting Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to co-create with their peers in the Creative Europe participating countries and showcase their art and works in Ukraine and in Creative Europe participating countries. Proposals addressing this priority shall be presented by selecting topic CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-1
  • Topic 2: Fostering Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage – namely for displaced people, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries – promoting integration, social cohesion or health through culture. Proposals addressing this priority shall be presented by selecting topic CREACULT-2025-COOP-UA-2
  • Topic 3: preparing the post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors and supporting their contribution to societal resilience through capacity building and networking activities. Proposals addressing this priority shall be presented by selecting topic CREA-CULT-2025-COOPUA-3

Themes and Priorities (Scope)

• This action will support cultural cooperation projects between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries that will help and strengthen Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. Projects shall demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine and develop actions 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 overarching EU priorities in the design and the implementation of their project.

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 5 000 000.

Duration

• Projects should not normally exceed 36 months.

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
• Specific cases
  • Natural persons — Natural persons are not eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person.
  • International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
  • Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
• EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) cannot be part of the consortium.

For more information, visit EC.