Culture Helps Solidarity Sixth Call for Individual Grants

¿De qué trata esta convocatoria?

The call gives one-off grants of up to €1,200 to artists, cultural managers, activists and volunteers in or from Ukraine for personal mental health and wellbeing support. It targets those working with displaced people, refugees, veterans and vulnerable groups.

¿Qué financia esta convocatoria?

Scope

Culture Helps Solidarity, co-funded by Creative Europe and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation, Insha Osvita, zusa and the VETERANKA Movement, offers individual personal care grants to cultural professionals in and from Ukraine who work, often voluntarily, with displaced people and refugees, veterans and vulnerable communities in Ukraine or in Creative Europe countries. The grants aim to strengthen personal wellbeing, resilience and mental health so that recipients can continue their cultural and community work. They are not designed to cover project delivery costs.

Eligible activities

• Psychotherapy or psychological counselling.
• Trauma-informed coaching or emotional (group) support sessions.
• Restorative care or rehabilitation stays, such as sanatorium treatment, wellness programmes or retreats.
• Visits to cultural institutions and events.
• Participation in master classes or art therapy workshops, with materials if necessary.
• Other justified wellbeing-oriented services.

Ineligible costs

Psychiatric or medical mental-health treatment, medication or medical devices, material assets, rent, tuition and training fees, invasive interventions, streaming subscriptions, alternative medicine consultations, and humanitarian or cost-of-living support. Grants may not go to third parties, project implementation or organisational costs.

Selection

Applications are assessed by external advisors on relevance of professional context, personal wellbeing relevance, public and community impact, and coherence and feasibility of the planned use of funds; the consortium partners make final decisions. Each round is open for two weeks and accepts up to 170 applications; submissions close early if this limit is reached. This is the sixth of an anticipated 10 to 14 rolling rounds over 2026-2028.

¿Cuándo termina el plazo?

26 October 2026, 13:00 Amsterdam time (14:00 Kyiv time).