Culture Helps Solidarity - Sixth Call for Proposals for Individual Grants
European Commission
Deadline
26 October 2026
Maximum amount
8000 €
Description
Culture Helps Solidarity - Sixth Call for Proposals for Individual Grants Topic: Fostering Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage Identifier: CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-2 Kind: bando a cascata (competitive call) Status: aperto Opening date: 2026-10-12 Deadline: 2026-10-26 Deadline model: single-stage Budget: 8000 Programme period: 2021 - 2027 Who can apply and how Culture Helps Solidarity - Open Call for Individual Grant Sixth round, 12 October - 26 October 2026 Culture Helps Solidarity supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, the project combines three grant schemes - individual grants, thematic project grants, and collaboration grants - with a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange. The project is co-funded through the Creative Europe programme and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), an independent foundation fostering European belonging through culture; together with Insha Osvita (Kyiv), a Ukrainian NGO and professional learning community developing educational and cultural programmes; zusa (Berlin), an international NGO fostering collaboration and collective learning for social and cultural change; and the VETERANKA Movement (Kyiv), Ukraine's leading community of women veterans advocating for women's rights, leadership, and reintegration. The Individual Grants provide direct, flexible support to cultural professionals in and from Ukraine who are working - often voluntarily - with displaced people and refugees, veterans and vulnerable communities, in Ukraine or in any of the Creative Europe (CE) countries (which include the 27 EU Member States and more countries participating in Creative Europe). These personal care grants are designed to offer quick and accessible assistance for strengthening the personal wellbeing, resilience and mental health of cultural professionals and creatives, enabling them to continue their crucial cultural, community-based work in extremely challenging circumstances. These grants are not designed to cover costs related to project delivery or implementation. This is the sixth call in the series of rolling application rounds, opening approximately every six weeks. Across the 2026-2028 project period, we anticipate 10–14 such cycles. In each cycle, approximately 7 to 10 grants of up to EUR 1,200 will be disbursed. WHO IS IT FOR? This call seeks to support individual professionals in need for individual wellbeing care who work in arts, culture or community-based cultural activities and: - support displaced Ukrainians, both inside Ukraine and across Creative Europe countries; - play a meaningful and publicly relevant role for maintaining cultural production, artistic creation or community life in Ukraine or in Creative Europe countries; - work with veterans and vulnerable groups; - seek urgent personal wellbeing support that will enable them to continue their work, creative practice, and engagement with their communities; - have been personally affected by war, displacement, and/or traumatic working conditions. WHAT DO WE OFFER? We offer 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. Eligible activities include: - 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. The grant may not be used for: - psychiatric consultations or medical mental‑health treatment (including any expenses that involve medical care, diagnosis); - purchase of medication or medical devices (even if prescribed by a doctor); - purchase of material assets (tools, household items, equipment, etc., consumables for work, etc.); - payment of rent for premises (residential or commercial, non-residential); - tuition fees, other training costs (formal or informal); - invasive interventions (surgical operations, cosmetic procedures, dental interventions, etc.); - streaming platform subscriptions; - consultations with doctors of alternative medical practice; - strictly humanitarian needs or cost-of-living support. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: 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 (which include the 27 EU Member States and more countries part
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