Programme Category
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Summary
The call aims to support cultural organisations working with peers from Creative Europe countries, including Ukraine, to present high-visibility cooperation projects. Projects must increase the showcasing of Ukrainian culture abroad and share perspectives internationally, particularly in reimagining, reinventing and reconstructing communities.
Detailed Call Description
ZMINA: Rebuilding 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. ZMINA Rebuilding will support projects depicting conversion from wartime to post-war reconstruction, building visions of the future, demonstrating wartime resilience, and creating conversations, expertise, and knowledge about post-war rebuilding and recovery.
Rebuilding program will support projects that contribute to the research and development of Ukraine’s rebuilding themes and cover one or more types bellow:
- focused on concrete creative practices contributing to wartime resilience and post-war recovery in Ukraine, preservation and construction of new identities, social norms, communities, relationships, infrastructure, decolonization, building new cultural narratives, cultural urbanistic planning, etc.
- highlight the essential and unique role of the cultural and creative sector in social and economic (re-)development, now and in the future.
- designed to involve the general public in imagining the post-war future and shaping society’s vision of the desired appearance of communities, infrastructure, and social norms, with the involvement of local communities as well,
- are aimed at achieving results in specific creative forms that have a physical manifestation and can be disseminated to other local communities
International cooperation projects:
- should be implemented outside of Ukraine, in one or more of the other Creative Europe countries,
- can be an extension of an existing Ukrainian project,
- must actively engage with well-defined communities,
- must include conversations taking place in cultural or other venues on the topic of ‘reconstruction”,
- must include a high visibility opening event (vernissage, premiere, pre-opening gala, etc.)
- can involve creation but must include showcasing, primarily outside of Ukraine,
- the showcasing must be significant, reaching large audiences directly or through media outreach, preferably contributing to Ukrainian ‘cultural diplomacy’.
IZOLYATSIA Foundation will conduct the public event to focus on program details and the application process. The event will be held on 1st of March 2024.
Online info-session
On February 13th, 14:00 CET / 15:00 Kyiv time, IZOLYATSIA will conduct the online presentation of the ZMINA: Rebuilding international cooperation program in English – for representatives of cultural organisations from Creative Europe countries.
Matchmaking session
On February 27th, 12:00 (CET), IZOLYATSIA Foundation, together with Malý Berlín and Trans Europe Halles is organising a matchmaking session for organizations from Creative Europe countries that want to participate in ZMINA: Rebuilding call for international cooperation projects.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum grant amount for an international project is €60.000.
Project partners must contribute at least 10% of their total project budget. Own contribution can be distributed among all the project partners in proportions determined by applicants.
Thematic Categories
- Culture
- Education and training
- Other Thematic Category
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
All cultural and creative sectors are eligible (visual arts, performing arts, filmmaking, literature, urban cultural planning etc.).
Partnerships should include, as a minimum, one organisation from Ukraine and one from another country participating in the Creative Europe Programme:
- Artistic or cultural organisations, established in non-occupied territories of Ukraine. This includes private as well as public organisations.The above-described organisations already supported during the first and second national call of ZMINA: Rebuilding are eligible (maximum subgrant amount from all supported projects combined is 60000 euro per each partner).
- Artistic or cultural organisations registered in Creative Europe country other than Ukraine,
- Educational establishments for the arts (academies, conservatories, arts departments of higher education institutions), established in non-occupied Ukraine or in another Creative Europe country.
- Organisations that had been already supported by the first wave of ZMINA: Rebuilding international call are not eligible.
Requirements for organisations:
- must have at least two years of professional experience in culture, art, or creative sector,
- must have their registered offices in Ukraine (but outside Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories) or in other Creative Europe countries.
- Applicants established in the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which are not under the control of the Georgian government are not eligible.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
During the two-month application period ZMINA: Rebuilding team will provide ongoing support to applicants via email at zmina@izolyatsia.org