Creative Europe increases support to Ukrainian culture and creative sectors
The EU-funded Creative Europe programme has contracted four large-scale projects, aiming to support Ukrainian culture and creative sectors, under its special call.
In October 2024, the European Commission published a special call under Creative Europe to keep supporting the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors, with a budget of €5 million, as part of its continued efforts to stand with Ukraine. Since then, the Commission announced an additional €2 million at the Ukrainian Recovery Conference in July 2025, raising the support under this call to a total of €7 million.
The call supports Ukrainian cultural and creative organisations, professionals and artists to tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries. The call also supports heritage preservation and artistic performance, both inside and outside Ukraine, as well as facilitating access to culture.
The ZMINA Resilience project will support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations co-creating and showcasing their works. It is the continuation of an ongoing project and will be coordinated by the Foundation Izolyatsia from Ukraine in partnership with Malý Berlín (Slovakia), and with Trans-Europe Halles (Sweden) as associated partner.
The Culture Helps Solidarity project is coordinated by the European Cultural Foundation from the Netherlands in partnership with the two Ukrainian organisations Insha Osvita and Veteranka, and Zusa from Germany. The project aims at fostering Ukrainian’s access to culture and cultural heritage.
The Cultural Horizons project is coordinated by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation from Ukraine in partnership with Cultural Vistas GmbH from Germany, also aiming to help Ukrainians to access culture and cultural heritage.
The UAxEU is an urgent initiative that strengthens the resilience of Ukraine’s cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) by fostering an interconnected Ukraine-EU community. The project aims at preparing the post-war recovery of Ukraine’s cultural and creative sectors. UAxEU confronts the most pressing challenges facing Ukraine’s CCSI: extensive ‘brain drain’ and skills shortages, with 37% of cultural professionals and artists leaving the sector; dramatic destruction of cultural heritage; and the threat to the well-being of an entire nation.
The initiative is coordinated by the European League of Institutes of the Arts vereniging from the Netherlands in partnership with three Ukrainian partners – the Lviv National Academy of the Arts, the Coalition of Culture Actors, the Ukrainian Museum Association. The project will be supported by the State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Art Education as an associated partner, and two EU partners, the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Culture Action Europe.
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