About Lot 1

This Lot provides promotional support to ongoing and completed cultural cooperation projects through participation in mass-scale online events hosted on the Cultural Cooperation Community platform.

Applications are open to project teams consisting of at least two participants from eligible countries.

Thematic priorities

Priority will be given to projects addressing one or more of the following thematic areas:

• Safeguarding and promotion of Ukrainian and European cultural heritage.
• Cultural advocacy and the representation of Ukrainian culture and interests in Europe.
• Cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and European cultural cooperation.
• Innovative artistic practices, digital technologies and cross-border cultural collaboration.

Eligibility Conditions

Projects should:

• Be registered on the Cultural Cooperation Community platform.
• 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.
• Be at the ongoing or completed stage of development.
• 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.

Promotional support

Selected project teams will participate in one of the 12 online events to be held on the Cultural Cooperation Community platform during the first half of 2027.

Selected teams will have the opportunity to present their cultural cooperation projects, share their experience and results, and participate in thematic discussions and professional exchanges with Ukrainian and European cultural professionals.

Promotional support will also include mentoring, providing selected project teams with professional guidance in preparing their cultural and artistic outcomes for public presentation.