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.

General provisions:
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.

Specific provisions for proposals:

All proposals under any of these two topics shall include at least the following activities: Financial support to third parties.

Proposals 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 startups 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 €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).

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.

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.