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“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.
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.
“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.
“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.
Culture Helps Solidarity 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.
Join Our Team: Community Manager at zusa (20h/week, Berlin) zusa, together with our diverse network of international partners, continues to
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” opens a seventh and the last call for applications for individual grants. You can receive
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” opens a call for applications for Projects mini grants. You can receive up to €5.000
We have a pleasure to invite you to the last zusa event in 2024 and first presentation of the art
2024 marked another year of change for zusa. Early in the year, we bid farewell to four team members, some
What we call for: We would like to offer up to 20 cultural professionals an opportunity to get to know
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” — an EU co-funded project implemented by Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE) — opens a fifth call for applications for individual grants. You can receive up to €1.000 as individual mental health support.
The project grants programme supports organisations and initiatives working in Ukraine or abroad, and implementing projects for the integration of
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” — an EU co-funded project implemented by Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE) — opens a fifth call for applications for individual grants. You can receive up to €1.000 as individual mental health support.
In March, “Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” — a project co-funded by the EU Creative Europe Programme and implemented by
⏰ Save the date: 14th May, 17:00-21:00📝 Please fill out the registration form by 12.05.2024.📍Herzbergstraße 82-84, 10365 Berlin 🇺🇸 Language: English This series of community meetings invites
Open call for applications for Project mini-grants. You can receive up to €5.000 for the implementation of projects, focused on the integration of people, who were forced to leave their homes because of the russian war against Ukraine.
Artists based in Hungary, Latvia and Portugal are invited to create new artworks for SOIL, a project under The Big Green initiative.
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.
In times of permacrisis (armed conflict, occupation, genocide, climate and natural catastrophes) and increased polarisation, solidarity seems to show different faces for different people at different times…
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” — an EU co-funded project implemented by Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE) — opens a third call for applications for individual grants. You can receive up to €1.000 as individual mental health support.
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.
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…
