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Fostering Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage
Funding Program
Creative Europe - Culture Strand
Call number
CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-2
deadlines
Opening
30.10.2024
Deadline
06.02.2025 17:00
Funding rate
90%
Call budget
€ 2,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
max. € 2,000,000.00
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Link to the submission
Call content
short description
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. Topic 2: Fostering 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.
Call objectives
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.
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 (please refer to point 1 of this document - Creative Europe contribution to overarching EU priorities) and describe in the application form how the project will contribute to them.
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Expected effects and impacts
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.
Expected results
Proposals shall include activities in line with the chosen relevant topic of the call. Applicants should ensure that their proposals are submitted under the adequate topic.
General provisions for all topics
Proposals should consider synergies with ongoing and planned EU interventions in Ukraine.
As such, proposals should emphasise the role of culture in fostering social cohesion, regional development, economic growth, and skills development, including in the perspective of Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
Applicants should embed in their proposal the benefits of cultural cooperation between cultural organisations from Ukraine and from countries of the Creative Europe programme, emphasising mutual learning and understanding.
The proposed activities shall be grouped in coherent Work Packages (i.e., a major sub-division of the project) which shall be linked to predefined deliverables. All deliverables shall illustrate the scope, reach, progress and success of the proposed activities. Details on work packages, activities and deliverables can be found in section 10 of this document.
Sustainability should be a guiding principle of proposals, with specific attention given to (1) the empowerment of Ukrainian cultural institutions that increasingly serve as hubs for community resilience, as well as (2) the stimulation of Ukrainian institutional funding at the national and local level.
Specific provisions for proposals under Topic 1 and Topic 2
All proposals under any of these two topics shall include at least the following activities:
1) Financial support to third parties (“cascading grants”)
Proposals under Topic 1 and Topic 2 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 start-ups or, or other forms. They can be provided by way of grants, prizes or similar for the financing of specific sub-projects. These projects will be managed under the provisions of ‘financial support to third parties’ and implemented in the countries participating in the Creative Europe programme subject to the following provisions:
- The financial support to third parties per sub-project should be of a maximum amount of EUR 60 000 per entity (natural or legal persons) and per year. Funding of 100% of the sub-project’s total costs through the financial support to third parties may be allowed considering the current geopolitical context.
- Eligible sub-projects may be submitted by a single eligible applicant or by a consortium based in a Creative Europe country.
These funds should be awarded through at least four open calls for proposals all along project duration so that adequate support can be regularly provided in a quickly changing environment. The calls for proposals should be easily accessible to applicants, flexible, agile and match the needs of the target groups (applicants).
2) 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 Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Albania (Shqipëria), Armenia (Հայաստան), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Georgia (საქართველო), Iceland (Ísland), Kosovo (Kosova/Kosovë / Косово), Liechtenstein, Montenegro (Црна Гора), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Norway (Norge), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Tunisia (تونس /Tūnis), Ukraine (Україна)
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
Yes
Project Partnership
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.
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)
- non-EU countries (listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person.
International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’ . Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).
Creative Europe Desks (CEDs) — The host organisations of Creative Europe Desks are eligible as coordinator or beneficiary in open calls, if they have procedures to segregate the project management and the information provision functions and if they are able to demonstrate cost separation (i.e. that their project grants do not cover any costs which are covered by their other grant). This requires the following:
- use of analytical accounting which allows for a cost accounting management with cost allocation keys and cost accounting codes AND application of these keys and codes to identify and separate the costs (i.e. to allocate them to either one of the two grants)
- recording of all real costs incurred for the activities that are covered by the two grants (including the indirect costs)
- allocation of the costs in a way that leads to a fair, objective and realistic result. Countries currently negotiating association agreements — Beneficiaries from countries with ongoing negotiations (see list above) may participate in the call and can sign grants if the negotiations are concluded before grant signature (with retroactive effect, if provided in the agreement).
other eligibility criteria
Financial support to third parties is allowed for grants or prizes under the following conditions:
- the calls must be open, published widely and conform to EU standards concerning transparency, equal treatment, conflict of interest and confidentiality
- the outcome of the call must be published on the participants’ websites, including a description of the selected projects, award dates, project durations, and final recipient legal names and countries.
Financial support to third parties will be accepted in proposals that comply with section 2 ‘Activities that can be funded (scope)’ of the Call Document. In addition, the following provisions also apply:
- The proposal must clearly specify how financial support to third parties will be managed and provide a list of the different types of activities for which a third party may receive financial support.
- The maximum amount per third party is EUR 60 000.
- The proposal must also clearly describe the results to be obtained (see section 2 -Activities that can be funded (scope)).
- The proposal should demonstrate that the applicant will put in place a solid management and control system to ensure that the principles of economy, efficiency and effectiveness are respected.
- Activities carried out by third parties must be completed during the period covered by the grant Agreement. Only costs incurred during that period can be considered eligible.
Grants will be provided to consortia of organisations to implement activities for the benefit of a wider number of stakeholders (i.e. organisations and/or individuals). It will also support activities carried out by third parties through cascading grants (see specific provisions above).
This call is open to all the cultural and creative sectors. However, considering that this action aims to pursue the objectives of the Culture strand of the Programme, projects involving exclusively organisations from the audiovisual sector and projects of an exclusive audiovisual content are not targeted for funding under it.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
36 months
Additional Information
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section.
Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System ( NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
- Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
- Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and uploaded)
- mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):
- detailed budget table/calculator: not applicable
- CVs (standard) of core project team: not applicable
- activity reports of last year: not applicable
- list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B).
Call documents
Contact
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Creative Europe Desks
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Creative Europe Desk Austria - Culture
+43 1 71606 -851115
elisabeth.pacher@bmkoes.gv.at
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