RES-POL: стратегія розвитку культури України до 2027 року

Funding: European Union
Partners: “Regional Development Center” (PPV Economic Development Agency), Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine
Duration: January 2024 — June 2025
Key experts: Alona Karavai, Olga Diatel, Iryna Chuzhynova
Project management: Roman Dyma, Yuliia Alenina
Contact: office@insha-osvita.org

The RES-POL project aims to strengthen the functional capacity of the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications and its agencies, including the Ukrainian Book Institute, the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, the State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Art Education, and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. The project focuses on four sectors—Arts and Culture, Cultural Heritage, Creative Industries, and Media—and covers over 20 sub-sectors. Additionally, RES-POL addresses 10 critical issues in cultural development, such as competitive labor compensation, the efficiency of state-owned cultural enterprises, financing for creative industries, models for cultural service funding, communities and cultural heritage, and EU integration within cultural policy.

In February 2024, Alona Karavai and Olga Diatel (co-founders of Insha Osvita), alongside Ira Chuzhynova (theater critic and Deputy Director for Strategic Development and International Cooperation at the Ivano-Frankivsk Drama Theater), joined the “Rapid Expert Support for Culture and Media Policies in Ukraine (RES-POL)” project as key experts for the Arts and Culture sector. They joined with the understanding that strategic planning during a full-scale war is not about dreaming but about honest analysis, identifying problems, and making (sometimes) unpopular decisions, while maintaining a critical stance toward various state policies and institutions, including the Ministry. Under the RES-POL project, a national cultural development strategy through 2027 will be developed.

As part of the project, six focus groups were conducted with artists and cultural managers to discuss and identify the sector’s primary needs and pain points. Insha Osvita also conducted a survey among artists and cultural managers, who shared their views on the priority and urgency of these issues, rating them on a 10-point scale.

These research efforts provided the foundation for analytical materials developed by the key sectoral experts in collaboration with five sub-sectoral experts. The outputs include:

• 2 Base Reports: “Material issues of policy: Arts and Culture” and “The Role of Art in the Post War Recovery of Ukraine”
• 5 Analytical Notes on sub-sectors: literature, libraries, visual arts, academic music, and performing arts.
• 2 Strategic Briefs proposing specific policy solutions: “The Role of Art in the Post War Recovery of Ukraine” and “Policy in the field of culture and the arts”
• 2 Roadmaps: one regarding the registry of cultural institutions and another on the museumification of contemporary art.
• Proposals for amendments to the Regulatory and Legal Act (RLA) regarding the possibility of simplified taxation of the sales of own works of art.

In March 2025, a series of three online Policy Lab meetings were held to discuss three critical issues identified by the experts:

• The museumification of contemporary art and the establishment of Museum(s) of Contemporary Art.
• The commissioning of artistic commemoration and memorialization works.
• Textbooks and educational materials for arts education.

All analytical materials can be accessed via the following link.

The RES-POL project ‘Rapid Expert Support to Cultural and Media Policy in Ukraine’ is implemented by the PPV Economic Development Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine with the support of the European Union.