ZMINA: Rebuilding project

Zmina. Rebuilding

Implementation period of project:
April 2023 — March 2025

Description:
ZMINA: REBUILDING was a project to support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to create and showcase works in Ukraine and Creative Europe countries. Under the leadership of Izolyatsia Foundation (Ukraine) in cooperation with Malý Berlín (Slovakia) and Trans Europe Halles (Sweden) it brought four open grant calls: two focused on supporting Ukrainian projects and two that supported international cooperation between organizations in Ukraine and in Creative Europe countries.

ZMINA: REBUILDING provided 1.4 million Euro to support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations, working alone, with national or non-Ukrainian partners. Selected program participants were able to create and showcase in Ukraine and abroad works that facilitate, promote or mediate public discourse on the topic of “rebuilding”: identity, social norms, communities, relationships, infrastructure.

The project supported intensive capacity building for Ukrainian artists and cultural organizations, including public cultural institutions, through a sub-grant scheme, which was followed by further activities related to supporting communication and presentation of works in Ukraine and abroad.

The project aimed to reach the following goals:

  • To bind the theme of wartime resilience and reconstruction to the sub-granting scheme, the program supported the development of concrete practices contributing to wartime resilience and post-war recovery in Ukraine. 
  • To highlight the essential and unique role that the cultural and creative sector is playing in social and economic (re-)development, now and in the future; 
  • Beyond Ukraine, foster and develop mutual understanding and future cooperation between the European and Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors. 
  • Intensive capacity-building programme supported Ukrainian artists and cultural organizations to internationalize their outlook, develop international projects and work to European standards. 

ZMINA: REBUILDING not only supported Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations but also facilitated future investments in the Ukrainian cultural and creative sector in the long term and straightened international connections to support Ukraine’s ascension to the EU.

The role of Malý Berlín in the project was to provide communication services and dissemination of ZMINA: REBUILDING. Malý Berlín developed and provided communication and design guidelines to successful applicants regarding presentation of ZMINA project, it produced dissemination outcomes of ZMINA for grantees in various forms and collaborated on the organisation of online events designed to help participants find partners for international projects.

Oficial project webpage:
izolyatsia.org/en/project/zmina-rebuilding

Leader of the project:
V4 project - Critical Revealing of Communist Heritage - Izolyatsia
Partners:
Malý Berlín