On 15 July Ukraine marks Ukrainian Statehood Day. The date points back to the baptism of Kyivan Rus and to a continuity of statehood that Russia spent decades trying to rewrite in its own favour.
First of all, work on history, memory, rights and civil liberties rests on people who do it every day. That work costs money, because archives, digitisation, research, court cases, museum displays and crime documentation all have a price tag.
So we gathered 7 programmes for Ukrainian Statehood Day that accept applications as of 15 July 2026. We checked each deadline on the donor’s own website rather than on aggregators. Ukrainian organisations can apply to all seven directly.
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European remembrance: the biggest call of the season (Grants for Ukrainian Statehood Day)
Ukraine joined the EU Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme (CERV) in January 2024. Ukrainian entities take part in every strand except Union Values. Specifically, this means the European Remembrance call sits open to Ukrainian NGOs, museums, universities and research institutions on equal terms with their European peers.
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM – European Remembrance
Donor
European Commission / EACEA
What it funds
Projects that commemorate defining events in modern European history, notably the Holocaust, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In addition, a separate priority covers democratic transition and rebuilding society on the rule of law.
Amount
Minimum grant 50,000 €, with no ceiling. As for the funding rate, it sits at 90%, paid through the lump sum model.
Deadline
30 September 2026
The call is transnational, so you need at least one partner from another participating country. You submit through the EU Funding and Tenders Portal, since paper submissions do not exist here. Two months remain until 30 September, which is a workable if tight schedule for a consortium project.
Culture, heritage and identity (Grants for Ukrainian Statehood Day)
In summer 2026 the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation launched Cultural Horizons together with Cultural Vistas (Germany), with EU co-funding. Two of its calls take applications right now.
UCF Cultural Horizons, Call 1: New Cultural Products
Who can apply
Legal entities of any ownership type, or sole traders, registered in Ukraine for at least one year before the call opened, outside temporarily occupied territories. In addition, applicants need a track record in culture.
What it funds
A cultural product created through international partnership with an organisation registered in an EU country, for example exhibitions, art objects, podcasts, media art, 3D models, VR and AR projects, or accessible products with subtitles and audio description. Cultural heritage counts as an eligible sector.
Amount
500,000 – 1,000,000 UAH (10,000 – 20,000 €). The call budget totals 19,108,000 UAH.
Deadline
14 August 2026, 18:00 Kyiv time
UCF Cultural Horizons, Call 2: European Local Culture
Who can apply
Local self-government bodies outside regional capitals and Kyiv, plus legal entities and sole traders registered outside those cities for at least a year. Therefore this call belongs to smaller places by design. In effect, this call belongs to small towns and rural communities.
What it funds
Rethinking local heritage in a European context, for example digital mapping of heritage, virtual tours, multimedia re-displays, travelling exhibitions, residencies, and the culture of national minorities and indigenous peoples.
Amount
155,000 – 400,000 UAH (3,000 – 8,000 €). Total call budget 9,554,000 UAH.
Deadline
4 September 2026, 18:00 Kyiv time
ALIPH – Ukraine Action Plan
Donor
International alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas, based in Geneva. Between March 2022 and March 2026 ALIPH disbursed 8.3 million dollars to nearly 500 Ukrainian organisations across more than 140 locations.
What it funds
Stabilising damaged monuments, evacuating collections, equipment for museums, libraries and archives, storage refuges, heritage ambulances, and also 3D documentation of buildings at risk.
Amount
The Foundation Board set a ceiling of 75,000 dollars for emergency measures. Action Plan projects, however, carry no fixed budget limit. A decision usually takes one to two months.
Deadline
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis through the ALIPH grant platform or at grants@aliph-foundation.org
In June 2026 ALIPH announced an extra emergency package of 200,000 dollars after strikes damaged the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the Kharkiv Art Museum, the Dovzhenko Film Studio and Mystetskyi Arsenal. As a result, this donor moves faster than most: ALIPH says support can arrive within days.
Civil liberties, rights and democracy (Grants for Ukrainian Statehood Day)
The two donors in this block run on different logic. One sets no deadline at all, while the other holds a hard date and a geographic limit.
European Endowment for Democracy (EED)
Who can apply
Here is the unusual part: official registration is optional. EED backs registered NGOs, informal platforms, youth groups, independent media, journalists, bloggers, artists and individual activists. Ukraine sits inside the fund’s core mandate.
What it funds
Anti-corruption and accountability, independent platforms, civic engagement, human rights monitoring, and also women’s political participation. Notably, EED deliberately picks up those whom existing EU instruments cannot support.
Amount
Grants typically range from 10,000 to 150,000 €, since the fund sizes each one to the initiative.
Deadline
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. The Executive Committee meets every two months and, in emergencies, decides outside that schedule. You can fill the form in Ukrainian.
International Renaissance Foundation: Impulse small grants, wave 5
Who can apply
Local and regional NGOs, public unions, charitable foundations and self-organisation bodies with at least one year of activity. As for geography, the call covers 15 oblasts: Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava and Cherkasy. Kyiv-registered organisations qualify if they work in those regions.
What it funds
Bringing communities into recovery planning, and also advocacy for human rights, non-discrimination, gender equality and honest governance in local development strategies. Organisational development for the team comes bundled in.
Amount
The optimal project budget runs from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 UAH, so plan for up to 12 months of work. Donors: Norad in partnership with Sida.
Deadline
27 August 2026, 15:00 Kyiv time. This is the final wave, because no further round follows. Results arrive on 19 October.
Two Impulse conditions trip up applicants regularly. First, equipment cannot exceed 15% of the budget. Second, re-granting is banned outright. IRF adds one more requirement that applicants often forget: the organisation must publish its annual report publicly.
| Programme | Amount | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| UCF New Cultural Products | 500k – 1M UAH | 14 August 2026 |
| IRF Impulse, wave 5 | 1 – 1.5M UAH | 27 August 2026 |
| UCF European Local Culture | 155 – 400k UAH | 4 September 2026 |
| ZMINA:Resilience showcasing | up to 50,000 € | 14 September 2026 |
| CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM | from 50,000 € | 30 September 2026 |
| EED | 10 – 150k € | Ongoing basis |
| ALIPH Ukraine Action Plan | up to 75,000 $ (emergency) | Ongoing basis |
Recovery and showing Ukrainian work in Europe (Grants for Ukrainian Statehood Day)
The last programme for Ukrainian Statehood Day in this roundup works with the theme of resilience. Specifically, it suits teams who already built something with European colleagues and now want a wider audience for it.
ZMINA:Resilience – support for international showcasing of co-creation projects
Who can apply
Arts and culture organisations registered in Creative Europe countries. As for Ukrainian applicants, they must sit in territories under government control. You need at least two partner organisations from two countries, one of which is Ukraine. Sole traders and individuals cannot apply.
What it funds
Public presentation of an already co-created work: at least 6 events, with 3 in Ukraine and 3 in another Creative Europe country. Every sector except audiovisual qualifies. Events in Ukraine can run online or hybrid because of the security situation.
Amount
Up to 50,000 €, covering up to 90% of costs. After that, the remaining 10% must come from your own cash contribution. The strand budget is 950,000 €, and organisers expect to award 19–25 grants.
Deadline
14 September 2026, 23:59 Kyiv time for round 1. After that: 14 December 2026, 15 March 2027, 14 June 2027, and a final round on 14 October 2027.
IZOLYATSIA runs the project. The foundation started in Donetsk in 2010, and after Russia seized its premises in 2014 and turned them into an illegal prison, the team moved to Kyiv and kept working. Partners include Malý Berlín from Slovakia and Trans Europe Halles from Sweden.
Where applications die before anyone reads them
Technical screening throws out applications without touching the substance. The usual causes stay simple: the state register extract predates the call announcement, documents arrive in the wrong format, a file exceeds the size limit, or a partner’s guarantee letter never made it in.
The last day deserves its own warning. IZOLYATSIA states plainly that support stops once the deadline passes, so if the system logs you out at 23:40, that becomes your problem. IRF likewise ignores proposals registered after 15:00.
One more thing: deadlines shift. Check the date on the donor’s own site before you submit, because Telegram channels and aggregators lag behind. We did this on 15 July 2026, and a week from now the picture may already differ.
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