Fostering Ukrainians’ access to culture and cultural heritage

Culture Helps Solidarity - Open Call for Individual Grant Sixth round, 12 October - 26 October 2026 Culture Helps Solidarity supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, the project combines three grant schemes - individual grants, thematic project grants, and collaboration grants - with a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange. The project is co-funded through the Creative Europe programme and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), an independent foundation fostering European belonging through culture; together with Insha Osvita (Kyiv), a Ukrainian NGO and professional learning community developing educational and cultural programmes; zusa (Berlin), an international NGO fostering collaboration and collective learning for social and cultural change; and the VETERANKA Movement (Kyiv), Ukraine's leading community of women veterans advocating for women's rights, leadership, and reintegration. The Individual Grants provide direct, flexible support to cultural professionals in and from Ukraine who are working - often voluntarily - with