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Culture Helps Solidarity funding for Ukrainian arts + culture professionals

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The Culture Helps Solidarity call supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war.

Running until 2028, Culture Helps Solidarity funding includes individual grants, thematic project grants, and collaboration grants as well as a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange.

Culture Helps Solidarity is co-financed by the EU through Creative Europe and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam) with Insha Osvita (Kyiv), zusa (Berlin), and the VETERANKA Movement (Kyiv).

Culture Helps Solidarity Funding portal.

Who can apply?

This call supports individuals working in arts, culture or community-based cultural activities who:

  • support displaced Ukrainians, both inside Ukraine and across Creative Europe countries;
  • work with vulnerable groups such as veterans;
  • are in need of psychological, emotional or wellbeing support to continue their cultural or community engagement;
  • have been personally affected by war, displacement and/or traumatic working conditions.
  • Individual grants are strictly dedicated to individuals, who:
    • are aged 18 and above;
    • reside in Ukraine or have fled from Ukraine to one of the Creative Europe countries;
    • artists, cultural managers, or activists volunteers working with displaced persons in Ukraine, or with refugees from Ukraine in one of the Creative Europe countries, particularly veterans.

Eligible activities

  • Psychotherapy or psychological counselling;
  • Trauma-informed coaching or emotional (group) support sessions;
  • Restorative care or rehabilitation stays (e.g., sanatorium treatment, wellness programmes, retreats);
  • Visit to cultural institutions and events (tickets to museums, theatres, cinemas, concerts, etc.);
  • Participation in master classes or workshops (art therapy) and materials for participation in them, if necessary;
  • Other justified wellbeing-oriented services that directly support the applicant’s resilience.
  • All proposals shall take into consideration the overarching EU priorities in the implementation of their project.

How much can you apply for?

  • These grants are designed to offer quick, accessible and humane assistance - not project implementation support - strengthening the personal wellbeing, resilience and mental health of those individuals, enabling them to continue their crucial cultural, community-based work in extremely challenging circumstances.
  • This first call for proposals for individual grants launches a series of rolling application rounds, which will open approximately every six weeks across the 2026-2028 project period with 10–14 cycles.
  • In each cycle, approximately 7 to 10 grants of up to €1,200 will be disbursed.
  • Up to €1,200 (including taxes if applicable) per individual, disbursed as a one-off contribution. The grant may be used strictly for personal mental health and wellbeing support and may not be directed to third parties, to project implementation or organisational costs.

How to Apply?

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