Fostering Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage

This action is expected, by reinforcing Cultural cooperation between Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries, to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and professionals. It will also contribute to the further integration of Ukraine’s cultural and creative sectors in the EU’s cultural landscape.

It is expected that the action will facilitate the implementation of future investments linked to the recovery of the cultural and creative sectors in Ukraine, particularly in view of the EU candidate status.

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has had devastating effects on the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors with many organisations and artists that cannot operate and reach out to their national and international audiences.

In addition, many Ukrainians, whether refugees or internally/internationally displaced people, do not have full access to culture.

This call intends to build ties between Ukrainian organisations and their counterparts based in the other countries participating in the Creative Europe programme, therefore furthering their integration into the European landscape and contributing to the EU’s international cultural relations.

Within the context of the New European Agenda for Culture, an important element of strengthening social cohesion and resilience is the development of the cultural sector, the protection and restoration of cultural heritage in Ukraine. All of these are necessary not only to help people recover but also to achieve Ukraine’s ambitious goal of a more resilient and inclusive economy and society that can grow in the future.

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.

Proposals under this topic should foster Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage – namely for displaced people, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries – promote integration, social cohesion or health through culture.

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.