«Culture Helps / Культура допомагає»: results of the fourth call of the individual grants

«Culture Helps / Культура допомагає»: results of the fourth call of the individual grants

The programme of individual grants supports cultural managers who work with the integration of Ukrainians into the new community through cultural events. We want to support those who help others and give them a chance to recover. Within the individual grants programme, you can receive up to 1,000 euros for a session with a psychologist, a trip to a health retreat, and more.

During the fourth competition for individual grants, we received 388 applications, from which independent experts selected 30:

  • Anastasia Grechkina, cultural manager
  • Veronika Slipchenko, activist
  • Kateryna Zhuravlyova, artist
  • Anastasiia Pavlenko, artist
  • Ksenia Nezhiva, activist
  • Vlada Prudnyk, artist
  • Olena Kalashnykova, cultural manager
  • Kristina Parashchevina, activist
  • Yuliia Mahda, artist
  • Darya Molokoedova, artist
  • Bohdan Prykhodko, artist
  • Olesya Skalyanska, artist
  • Andrii Lyubov, cultural manager
  • Liliya Kobchenko, cultural manager
  • Yuliia Stepanok, cultural manager
  • Svitlana Bazhenova, cultural manager
  • Olga Vasylets, cultural manager
  • Nadia Kupenko, activist
  • Victoria Chumachenko, activist
  • Tatyana Kekis, cultural manager
  • Kateryna Moskvichova, cultural manager
  • Vita Bashmakova, activist
  • Petro Avramenko, artist
  • Olena Serbinovych, activist
  • Anastasia Shchybrya, artist
  • Polina Yakymenko, cultural manager
  • Stella Stoyanova, activist
  • Serhiy Letuchy, cultural manager
  • Valentina Kovtun, activist
  • Tamila Pedan, cultural manager

In this call all applications were evaluated by independent experts from the cultural, artistic and public spheres:

  • Anna Pohribna — a deputy general director for program issues at the Mystetskyi Arsenal;
  • Sofia Korotkevych — an artist of conceptual, graphic and applied art, manager of cultural and artistic projects;
  • Tetiana Vovk — a co-founder of Psikultura, a psychologist, a mental health consultant in organizations;
  • Yulia Filipieva — a cultural manager;
  • Anton Yermolaev — a psychologist, a practitioner of transactional analysis in the field of psychotherapy, a mental health consultant in organizations and a co-founder of the psychological agency Psikultura;
  • Anastasia Manuliak — a head of the “Visual Art” department at the Ukrainian Institute;
  • Oleksandra Havryliuk — a communication and PR manager of cultural projects;
  • Yulia Tkachenko — a psychologist, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, expert of the Psikultura agency;
  • Natalia Pedan — a cultural manager, curator of art projects, museologist, head of the department of research and revival of decorative and applied art and exhibition activities of the Kharkiv Regional Organizational and Methodological Center for Culture and Art;
  • Natalia Kernytska — a manager of international cooperation at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation;
  • Kateryna Ilchuk — a psychologist-consultant in the method of cognitive-behavioral therapy and positive psychotherapy, an expert of the Psikultura agency, a mental health consultant in organizations;
  • Olga Polyak — a curator of the School of Contemporary Art for Teenagers and Adults “Fra Fra Fra”
  • Lyudmila Tomashpolska — an honored artist of the arts of Ukraine, TV director, pedagogue of KyMU and KPDU, expert of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Ukrainian Book Institute;
  • Natalia Yaroshenko — a project manager of the communal institution “Sumy Promotion Agency”, coordinator of the Taras Shevchenko Festival Ше.Fest, founder of the enWAR_mental information campaign;
  • Yurii Veselskyi — a head of art programs and grant specialist of the Representative Office of the Danish Institute of Culture in Ukraine, the Ukrainian-Danish Youth House.

Participants have already received letters with further steps. Thank you for your participation, and we are working on the soonest announcement of the new open call for individual grants.

«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).