Deadline: 07-Apr-2024
The ZMINA Rebuilding Project is launching its second call for proposals for International Projects.
The call aims to support cultural organisations working with peers from Creative Europe countries, including Ukraine, to present high-visibility cooperation projects. Projects must increase the showcasing of Ukrainian culture abroad and share perspectives internationally, particularly in reimagining, reinventing, and reconstructing communities.
The ZMINA Rebuilding programme will support projects depicting conversion from wartime to post-war reconstruction, building visions of the future, demonstrating wartime resilience, and creating conversations, expertise, and knowledge about post-war rebuilding and recovery.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant amount for a national project is 60,000 €
- The available funding for the first wave of international projects is 600,000 €
Eligible Projects
- ZMINA: Rebuilding program will support the development and showcase of projects depicting conversion from wartime to post-war reconstruction in Ukraine, building visions of the future, demonstrating war-time resilience, building conversations, expertise, and knowledge about post-war rebuilding and recovery.
- Selected program participants must present works that facilitate, promote, or mediate public discourse on the topic of “rebuilding”: identities, social norms, communities, relationships, common visions, and infrastructure.
- This international cooperation must increase the visibility of Ukrainian artists and cultural production in other Creative Europe countries and heighten the profile and knowledge of Ukrainian cultural and creative organisations in other countries while bringing new shared perspectives to the Ukrainian and European cultural and creative sectors.
- Projects should draw the Ukrainian cultural sector closer to that of other Creative Europe countries. Projects should showcase work of Ukrainian organisations in other Creative Europe countries, and to ensure that the contribution of Ukrainian artists, cultural organisations, and their production – together with their value to society – become well recognised and understood by actors in the cultural and creative sector (including curators, funders, cultural institutes, cultural policy decision-makers and influencers) across the European Union.
- International cooperation projects:
- should be implemented primarily outside of Ukraine, in one or more of the other Creative Europe countries,
- can be an extension of an existing Ukrainian project,
- must actively engage with well-defined communities,
- must include conversations taking place in cultural or other venues on the topic of “reconstruction”,
- must include a high visibility opening event (vernissage, premiere, pre-opening gala etc.)
- can involve creation, but must involve showcasing, primarily outside of Ukraine,
- the showcasing must be significant, reaching large audiences, either directly or through media outreach, preferably also contributing to Ukrainian ‘cultural diplomacy’,
- must include active cooperation between all partners.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants for international cooperation projects
- Call for international cooperation project proposal is open for cooperation involving at least one Ukrainian organisation and at least one organisation from another Creative Europe country:
- Artistic or cultural organisations, established in non-occupied territories of Ukraine. This includes private as well as public organisations.
- The above-described organisations already supported during the first and second national call of ZMINA: Rebuilding are eligible (maximum subgrant amount from all supported projects combined is 60000 euro per each partner).
- Artistic or cultural organisations registered in Creative Europe country other than Ukraine,
- Educational establishments for the arts (academies, conservatories, arts departments of higher education institutions), established in non-occupied Ukraine or in another Creative Europe country.
- Organisations that had been already supported by the first wave of ZMINA: Rebuilding international call are not eligible.
- Call for international cooperation project proposal is open for cooperation involving at least one Ukrainian organisation and at least one organisation from another Creative Europe country:
- All cultural and creative sectors are eligible (visual arts, performing arts, filmmaking, literature, urban cultural planning etc.).
- All projects must include interaction and engagement with audiences on the topic of resilience, rebuilding or reconstruction, taken in their widest sense (discussions, presentations, theatre workshops, co-design of ideal living spaces or urban spaces, visual identities, prototyping, etc.).
- All projects are strongly encouraged to integrate the New European Bauhaus ‘keywords’: beautiful, inclusive, sustainable – especially if they address physical reconstruction.
- All organisations must not be the subject to sanctions imposed in Ukraine and beyond and meet the requirements of anti-money laundering public policy reaching the level of ultimate beneficial owners.
- Requirements for organisations:
- must have at least two years of professional experience in culture, art, or creative sector,
- must have their registered offices in Ukraine (but outside Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories) or in other Creative Europe countries.
- Applicants established in the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which are not under the control of the Georgian government are not eligible.
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