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Culture Helps Solidarity

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність: Open Call for Individual Grants (2nd round, 16 Mar – 6 Apr 2026) [CLOSED]

“Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність” supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange.

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Culture Helps Solidarity

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність: Open Call for Project Grants

At least 60 Project Grants will be awarded across four thematic calls, with a minimum of 15 projects supported in this first round. Each project may receive up to €7,000. Three additional calls, each with its own thematic focus, will be launched over the course of the programme. More information about the upcoming themes can be found at the end of this call for proposals.

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Culture Helps Solidarity

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність: Open Call for Individual Grants (1st round, 2-23 Feb 2026)

“Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність” supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange.

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Culture Helps Solidarity

Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність: Open Call for Collaboration grants 

“Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність” supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange.

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What's next

Invitation: What’s next? Mental health from the lens of social justice: Embodiment community meetings for cultural workers with Tanja Sokolnykova

This series of community meetings invites cultural workers and artists into a practice space and exploration of how we can create more trauma-sensitivity, safety and trust in our spaces – in ourselves, our communities and organizational structures facing multiple wars and conficts, growing violence and despair.

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AiR zusa

AiR zusa: Meet our residents III

By the end of 2023, the residency had become home to 3 more artists and cultural professionals, in collaboration with Artists at Risk and funded by the Goethe Institut. They spent their time in Berlin resting, enjoying small gatherings with friends, or participating in other cultural events within the network. Once again, it became clear to us the necessity of maintaining and securing this programme…

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