«Culture Helps / Культура допомагає»: results of the third call of the project grants

The project grants programme supports organisations and initiatives working in Ukraine or abroad, and implementing projects for the integration of Ukrainians into new communities through cultural events. Within the programme, you can receive up to 5,000 euros for the implementation of such a project.

This is the third competition for projects grants for integration through cultural events. During the competition, we received 536 applications, from which we will be able to support 20 cultural, artistic and public organisations from Ukraine, Ukraine, Slovenia, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Congratulations to those whose applications received the highest scores based on the evaluation results:

• KZ “Bereznivska miska publichna biblioteka”;
• Podjetniški inkubator Kočevje;
• NGO Kvitka Polissya;
• NGO Lviv Cultural Centre;
• NGO ZNOvU;
• Ver-sammelstelle;
• Center of Adaptation of IDP NGO ZMIST;
• Stowarzyszenie Edukacji Krytycznej;
• NGO Agency of European Innovations;
• Charitable organisation “Mykola Babak Foundation”;
• NGO DOF;
• NGO ProEnglish Theatre of Ukraine;
• NGO Association of Women of Ukraine “Diya”;
• Ukrajinci Brandýs nad Labem – Stará Boleslav a okolí;
• NGO Advocacy of Legal Initiatives;
• Dnipro city association of the All-Ukrainian society “Prosvita” named after Taras Shevchenko;
• NGO CONA;
• NGO Narodna dopomoha;
• Municipal Institution of Higher Education “Bar Humanitarian Pedagogical College named after Mykhailo Hrushevsky”;
• NGO Young Agents of Change.

All applications were evaluated by our independent experts:

• Ilona Demchenko — a cultural manager of House of Europe;
• Veronika Skliarova — a director of the NGO Art dot, head of the Art Therapy Force project;
• Sofiia Korotkevych — an artist, a project manager in the field of culture and art;
• Anna Pohribna — a deputy director for program issues of the Mystetskyi Arsenal;
• Anton Iermolaiev — a co-founder and expert of the Psikultura agency, psychologist, psychotherapist, practitioner of transactional analysis;
• Les Vynogradov — a program manager of NGO Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, co-founder of the initiative to support artistic residencies “Zapravka”;
• Valeria Polska — a psychoeducational trainer and art therapist, an advocate of evidence-based methods;
• Oleksandra Gorchynska — a project manager, head of NGO Ukraine:Act;
• Iryna Chuzhynova — a PhD in theatre art, Deputy Artistic Director of the Ivano-Frankivsk national regional Ukrainian musical drama theatre named after Ivan Franko;
• Illia Biriukov — an experimental music producer, live performer;
• Marina Slyot — a music therapist, a specialist at the Confidence Psychological Assistance Center — a leading specialist and expert at Art Therapy Force;
• Galyna Grygorenko — a cultural manager, co-founder and general producer of Open Opera Ukraine;
• Tetiana Vovk i — a co-founder of the psychological agency Psikultura, psychologist, mental health consultant in organisations;
• Kateryna Alymova — a cultural manager and curator of House of Europe;
• Denys Vasyliev — a director of the Center for the Development of Business Technologies and Culture;
• Kateryna Ilchuk — a psychologist-consultant in the method of CBT and positive psychotherapy, an expert of the Psikultura agency;
• Lina Romanukha — a culture and art specialist of the Engage Programme;
• Inna Pakhomova — a coordinator of “Creative Spark Poltava”, member of the board of the NGO Co-Impact, grant and project manager, trainer, fundraiser;
• Viktoriia Lunochkina — a grant manager of the Stabilization Fund at the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine;
• Anna Vinogradova — an artist, performer, teacher;
• Olga Bekenshtein — a music curator, founder of the Time Based platform;
• Yuliia Tkachenko — a psychologist, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, expert of the Psikultura agency;
• Anastasiia Manuliak — a head of the “Visual Art” department of the Ukrainian Institute;
• Anna Potyomkina — an independent curator and cultural manager, co-founder of the NGO Asortymentna Kimnata;
• Anastasiia Shcherbin — a former cultural manager of Creative Economy programmes at the British Council in Ukraine and the House of Europe programme;
• Serhii Zhukovski — a trainer of the Cultural Transformation Lab;
• Krystyna-Maria Slobodianiuk — an independent artist.

Participants have already received further steps in their mailboxes! If you have any questions, please contact us at culture_helps@insha-osvita.org or via Telegram.

«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).