Culture Helps Solidarity - Sixth Call for Proposals for Individual Grants
Creative Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Individual wellbeing grants support eligible cultural professionals, activists and volunteers personally affected by war, displacement or traumatic work.
- Who can apply
- Companies cannot apply: individual.
- Amount
- €1.2K per projectTotal budget €8,000
- Deadline
- 26 Oct 2026 14:00 CETin 2 days
- Status
- Openopened 12 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
We are organizing an hour of online info session on the 14th of October at 15:00 Amsterdam time / 16:00 Kyiv time where participants can enter into a Q&A session with the partners regarding the application process and criteria. You can register via this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/G-6rK-dPQTqsAUHFn-1tEA
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
The upcoming application rounds will each be open for two weeks, followed by a three/four-weeks assessment period. To ensure high-quality assessment and an effective allocation of support, each round can accommodate up to 170 applications. Should this limit be reached before the deadline, submissions for that round will be closed.
Please note that demand is high and competition is strong. We therefore encourage you to take the time to prepare a high-quality application that stands out in a highly competitive selection process.
Should you have further questions, please contact us at chs@culturalfoundation.eu.
The “Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає: Солідарність” is a project co-funded by the EU Creative Europe Programme and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (NL), Insha Osvita (UA), zusa (DE) and VETERANKA Movement (UA).
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Individual
- Purpose
- Health and social
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- Residents of Ukraine or people who fled Ukraine to a Creative Europe country
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Single applicant
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €1.2K
- Topics
- Individual wellbeing
- War-related trauma
- Cultural professionals
- Displacement support
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant type
- Eligible profile includes arts/cultural professionals or activists/volunteers working with displaced people, refugees, veterans or vulnerable groups, who have personally been affected by war, displacement or traumatic work conditions.
- Application restriction
- Complete application must be in Ukrainian or English.
- Applications closed
- Yes
For the sixth individual-grants round only: organiser’s current page says it opened 12 October and closed 21 October 2026 due to exceptionally high interest. This later operator notice supersedes the planned deadline for application status; it does not alter the retained static PDF deadline text.
- Eligible geography
- Applicant must reside in Ukraine or have fled from Ukraine to a Creative Europe country.
- Eligible project scope
- Individual wellbeing support only; cannot fund third parties, project delivery or organisational costs.
- Other condition
- Approximately 7–10 one-off grants per round, up to EUR 1,200 each.
- Other condition
- The current official programme page reports that the sixth individual-grants round closed on 21 October 2026 because of exceptionally high interest. The static call PDF retains the planned 26 October deadline; the live round is treated as closed based on the organiser’s later dated update.
- Other condition
- Applicant must be at least 18.
- Other condition
- Static PDF lists 26 October 2026, 13:00 Amsterdam / 14:00 Kyiv.
- Other condition
- Criteria: professional context, personal wellbeing relevance, community impact, and coherent/feasible use of funds.
- Other condition
- External advisors assess eligible applications; consortium partners make final decisions after reviewing recommendations for consistency and budget balance.
- Other condition
- Up to 170 applications per round; submissions may close early when capacity is reached.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €8,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Funding per beneficiary, maximum
- €1,200
A one-off grant ceiling per individual of up to €1,200, including applicable taxes; not a project-level cap.
- Eligible cost
- Eligible uses include counselling, trauma-informed coaching/group support, restorative care, cultural visits, art therapy/workshops and related materials, and other justified wellbeing services.
- Ineligible cost
- Excluded uses include medical/psychiatric treatment, medication/devices, material assets, rent, tuition/training, invasive procedures, streaming, alternative medicine, and humanitarian or living-cost support.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 12 Oct 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Creative Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- Culture Helps Solidarity - Sixth Call for Proposals for Individual Grants
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 13 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.