At least 60 Project Grants will be awarded across four thematic calls, with a minimum of 15 projects supported in this first round. Each project may receive up to €7,000. Three additional calls, each with its own thematic focus, will be launched over the course of the programme. More information about the upcoming themes can be found at the end of this call for proposals.
“Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність” supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange.
“Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає Солідарність” supports arts and culture professionals from Ukraine to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war. Running until 2028, it combines three grant schemes (individual grants, thematic project grants and collaboration grants) and a rich programme of mentoring, learning, and peer exchange.
Culture Helps Solidarity is a Creative Europe–funded project -running from October 2025 until March 2028- that empowers Ukrainian arts and cultural professionals to sustain creativity, resilience, and community connection during and after the war.
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” opens a seventh and the last call for applications for individual grants. You can receive up to €1 000 as individual mental health support. The Individual grants programme focuses on support of mental health. Cultural workers, activists and artists, working with people who have been forced to move to safer … Read more
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” opens a call for applications for Projects mini grants. You can receive up to €5.000 for implementation of projects, focused on integration of people, who were forced to leave their homes because of the russian war against Ukraine. The Project grants programme offers support for cultural organisations that emphasize work … Read more
We have a pleasure to invite you to the last zusa event in 2024 and first presentation of the art book by Lesia Pcholka “Descent into the marsh”. Throughout 2024 Lesia Pcholka was working on her artistic research dedicated to protest movements in Hong Kong (2019-2020) and in Belarus (2020-2021). The project has a closure, … Read more
2024 marked another year of change for zusa. Early in the year, we bid farewell to four team members, some of whom had been with us for over a decade. We knew this would leave gaps in leadership, but we didn’t know exactly how things would unfold. Instead, we embraced the process (as we have … Read more
What we call for: We would like to offer up to 20 cultural professionals an opportunity to get to know Berlin’s cultural organisations and how they work (i.e., their structure, team, and programming, etc.) through short (up to 10 days) “shadowing”. zusa has a network of alumni organisations in Berlin, who participated in programmes like … Read more
“Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” — an EU co-funded project implemented by Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE) — opens a fifth call for applications for individual grants. You can receive up to €1.000 as individual mental health support.
