CREATIVE EUROPE – Support to the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors – 2025

Objectives

• To support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to co-create with their peers in the Creative Europe participating countries and showcase
  their art and works in Ukraine and in Creative Europe participating countries
• To foster Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage – namely for displaced people, in Ukraine or Creative Europe participating countries – promoting integration, social cohesion or health through culture
• To preparing the post-war recovery of the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors and supporting their contribution to societal resilience through capacity building and networking activities

Priorities

• Priority 1: To 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
• Priority 2: To demonstrate a very good understanding of the complexity of the current situation in Ukraine
• Priority 3: To 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

Among financed actions

• Capacity building
• Networking

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme(Click here)
• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities must be constituted:
  • at least 1 organisation of the consortium is based in Ukraine and
  • at least 1 organisation of the consortium is based in another Creative Europe participating country

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 36 months
• Contact: EACEA-COOP-UA@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 5 million
• Budget per topic:
  • CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-1: 2 million euro
  • CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-2: 2 million euro
  • CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-3: 1 million euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-1: up to 2 million
  • CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-2: up to 2 million
  • CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-3: up to 1 million
• Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs