Funding programme

Creative Europe is the EU’s funding programme for providing support to the culture and audiovisual sectors.

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Call overview

The aim of this call is to support displaced people in Ukraine or EU Member States by promoting integration, social cohesion or health through culture.

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Call detail

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.

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Activities funded

All proposals under this topic shall include at least the following activities:

Financial support to third parties (“cascading grants”)

Proposals should disburse at least 70% of the EU grant through financial support to third parties to support the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors.The purpose is to re-distribute funds to finance sub-projects implemented by cultural and creative actors in line with the relevant topic. Cascading grants may be given via a financial donation to natural persons (e.g. allowance, scholarship, fellowship) or legal persons (public or private organisations, including NGOs), seed money to startups or, or other forms. They can be provided by way of grants, prizes or similar for the financing of specific sub-projects.

Information and support activities

Proposals should include activities to support potential applicants to the financial support to third parties, while respecting principles of equal treatment and absence of conflict of interest. This support should include assistance in the process of preparing applications such as information sessions, helpdesk etc. Proposals should also include activities linked to the follow-up and networking of selected projects.

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Eligibility

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 or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)

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Consortium composition

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:

− at least one organisation of the consortium is based in Ukraine and

− at least one organisation of the consortium is based in another Creative Europe participating country.

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Duration

Projects should not normally exceed 36 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).

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Budget

Maximum grant amount is EUR 2 000 000.