“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає”: geography of supported grantees

Since May 2023, Insha Osvita, in collaboration with the German organisation zusa and with co-financing from the European Union, has been implementing the “Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” project. This initiative aims to support people who, due to Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, were forced to relocate to safer regions of Ukraine or abroad. The project provides grant support to cultural managers, as well as organisations and initiatives that help people integrate into new communities through cultural events.

Over two years, we have covered a wide geographical area, both in Ukraine and in the Creative Europe countries. In Ukraine, projects supported by “Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” have been implemented in the Ternopil, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Volyn, Kyiv, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Zakarpattia, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

Abroad, projects have been implemented in Poland, Lithuania, France, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Czechia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, Slovakia, Sweden, Greece, Romania, Spain, the Netherlands, and Estonia.

• The project grants programme supports organisations and initiatives based in Ukraine and Creative Europe countries that carry out projects to integrate Ukrainians into new communities through cultural events. Over two years, we held four grant competitions and supported 80 organisations: 59 in Ukraine and 21 in other Creative Europe countries.
• The collaboration grants programme supports partnerships between organisations from Ukraine and Creative Europe countries, facilitating projects that help people integrate into new communities through culture. In total, we conducted three collaboration grant competitions and supported 30 partnerships, comprising 40 organisations from Ukraine and 38 organisations from other Creative Europe countries.

Overall, within the “Culture Helps / Культура допомагає”, 99 local projects in Ukraine and 59 international projects in Creative Europe countries were supported. We sincerely thank all applicants and our grantees for your trust and dedication!

“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” is a project co-funded by the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors. The project is a cooperation between Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE).