Culture Helps Solidarity

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає: Солідарність is a Creative Europe-funded project running from October 2025 until March 2028- that empowers Ukrainian arts and cultural professionals to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war.

Multiple rounds will follow across different formats, including rolling individual grants, project-based support linked to learning and training moments, and further collaboration grants. Together, these calls create sustained pathways for both care and cooperation, allowing cultural professionals and organisations to plan, recover and continue their work over time rather than through one-off interventions.

Cultural professionals such as artists, curators, museum workers and educators have become key agents of care, resilience and social cohesion. Many continue to support displaced Ukrainians and their communities while navigating their own strain, loss, or fatigue. Approximately every six weeks starting in February 2026, Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає: Солідарність will open a round of Individual Care Grants to support creative professionals and veterans in maintaining their mental health and well-being, helping them sustain the care and cultural work they provide to others.

Support focuses on personal well-being rather than project delivery. It may include counselling, trauma-informed coaching, restorative care, or participation in cultural and therapeutic activities that help individuals recover balance and resilience.

The second application round of Individual Care grants is open March 16 – April 6 2026.

This call supports cultural projects that improve access to culture and foster inclusion and mental well-being for internally displaced people and refugees from Ukraine, with particular attention to vulnerable groups, including veterans. Priority is given to partnerships led by Ukrainian organisations, whether based in Ukraine or working in exile, especially when collaborating with organisations in neighbouring Creative Europe countries.

The first application round of Collaboration Grants runs from January 22 to March 31 2026.

Project Grants support cultural initiatives that help people affected by the war reconnect with cultural life and with one another. These projects expand access to the arts, heritage, and shared cultural experiences for displaced people and communities rebuilding their lives. They focus on inclusive activities that bring people together, strengthen social ties and support a sense of belonging in changing environments.

Particular attention is given to vulnerable groups and to initiatives that support wellbeing through creative participation. Cultural organisations, artists, and community partners work closely with local communities to address real needs and lived experiences. Projects help preserve cultural expression while creating space for dialogue, learning and mutual support.

The first application round of Project Grants runs from February 20 to April 16 2026.