Background and purpose

Ukrainian Woman is an international project supporting Ukrainian women artists and cultural professionals through collaboration, co-creation, and increased visibility across Europe. The project aims to foster international partnerships, develop new cultural projects, and strengthen the presence of Ukrainian voices in the European cultural landscape.

The Call objective

This call is designed to support participating teams in promoting the results of their cultural cooperation projects through large-scale international online events, presentations and exhibitions. Under this call, project teams will be selected for participation in online cultural cooperation activities across three Lots:

The promotional support will also include a mentoring component, providing selected project teams with professional guidance in preparing their cultural and artistic outcomes for public presentation. This is a promotional opportunity, not a grant competition or an award of funding.

Expected results

• Make identifiable artistic and cultural cooperation outcomes visible to Ukrainian and European audiences.
• Publicly present the work of emerging and established women artists and cultural professionals from Ukraine and European countries.
• Communicate what participating teams have achieved, how they cooperated internationally and what future collaboration or follow-up actions they envisage.
• Implement 12 online cultural cooperation events, 10 online exhibitions and 8 online cross-cultural presentations on the CCC platform.

Eligibility Conditions

Who can apply and eligible projects:

Applications are submitted on behalf of a cultural cooperation project team by the project initiator or an authorised team representative. Each project team must consist of at least two participants. In line with the U-Woman Guide, projects should:

• Be registered on the Cultural Cooperation Community platform.
• Projects must have started on or after 1 January 2025.
• Comply with the eligibility conditions set out in the U-Woman Project Guide.
• Demonstrate international cultural cooperation and/or the use of modern digital tools in implementation.
• Have a clearly identifiable cultural or artistic outcome, or a clearly defined artistic concept or work in progress appropriate to the selected Lot (for example, an exhibition, performance, film, visual artwork, musical composition, literary work, publication or digital creative work).
• Be at the development stage, ongoing or completed, with the level of project development and available results appropriate to the selected Lot.
• Demonstrate readiness to participate in the relevant promotional activity, including the availability of appropriate descriptions, materials and visual content, where applicable.

Eligible Countries:

The project team members must be citizens or residents of the forty-one countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme.

Other eligible conditions:

The applicants from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand are also eligible, however, priority will be given to participants, partnerships, and projects involving representatives from countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme, in line with the objectives of strengthening European cultural cooperation and transnational collaboration within the European cultural space.

Evaluation and Selection Procedure

Applications will be assessed against the general eligibility and selection criteria and the specific criteria established for each Lot. The selection process will be completed by 31 December 2026. Only selected project teams will be notified of the results. Notifications will be sent to the email address provided in the application and through a notification to the project initiator’s profile on the Cultural Cooperation Community platform. The list of selected projects will be published on the official website of the Ukrainian Woman project.

Call documents and useful links