Culture Helps Collaboration Grants for Culture (Ukraine + Creative Europe)

The Culture Helps project includes a series of calls for collaboration grants. Under these calls, you can receive up to €40,000 for the implementation of international partnership projects between 2 or 3 organisations, focused on the integration through culture for people who were forced to leave their homes because of the war in Ukraine.

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 to Creative Europe countries. The project idea must be focused on displaced people or refugees, facilitate their integration into new contexts through culture to promote dialogue and mutual understanding, 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 the form of workshops, co-creation processes, educational projects, art therapy or similar.

Collaboration Grants Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants should be based in Ukraine and other Creative Europe country and correspond to one of the following categories below.
• Non-profit organisations, public or private bodies, provided that they can prove the organisation’s non-commercial status
• Project proposals should not generate any profit
• 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 online moderated community calls that will serve as a helpdesk, providing assistance with grant applications and facilitating matchmaking between organisations.

Application and timeline

• Applications need to be submitted in English via this link.
• You can find all questions from the form here and the proposed budget template can be downloaded here.
• Deadline for applications is 3rd August, 22.59 Irish time / 23:59 Kyiv time 2023.
• Results of the selection process will be announced no later than August 28, 2023.
• Activities under this call should end by March 31, 2024.
• Reporting deadline by April 30, 2024.

Further information about Collaboration Grants Programme

You can find all details about the Collaboration grants on the Funding & Tenders portal.

• Culture Helps programme includes 3 calls for Collaboration grants between 2023 and 2024.
• The next call will be launched in August 2023. Each call will support around 10 project grants.
• 50% of the total grants are expected to be disbursed in Ukraine, 50% in other Creative Europe countries.
• Maximum amount of the grant is €25,000 for collaboration between two organisations, maximum €40,000 for collaboration between three organisations.

Apply via this portal before 11pm Irish time on 3rd August, 2023.