Creative Business Survival Kit

Creative Business Survival Kit will benefit owners and managers of creative businesses who can introduce changes.

Apply, if your business: 

• Was bringing revenue before the full-scale invasion and continues to work now
• Is registered in Ukraine
• Is an active legal entity: private entrepreneur, privately held company, LLC, etc.
• Commercial: NGOs and charitable foundations cannot apply
• Is run by you solely, or has a team

Your business can be related to advertising, marketing, architecture, crafts, creative hubs, digital media, video gaming, fashion, film, TV, radio, museums, galleries, libraries, music, the performing arts, publishing, literature, the visual arts, photography, entertainment, product, and graphic or interior design.

• Completed application: elaborate on your business, the problems you faced due to war and your ideas on how they can be solved. Remember to share your plans for the stipend. 
• Extracts from the Unified State Registry of Enterprises and Organisations and Taxpayers Register
• A bank document with the banking details of your business in Ukrainian Hryvnia

Apply with a short form via our online platform. The application will take up to 30 minutes. 

Please log in, click the “Start entry” button, choose the chapter “Creative businesses”, and open call “Creative Business Survival Kit 3/2023”. 

We receive more quality applications than we can finance. We select the participants based on their business situation and how effectively they will spend the stipend.

• The consultations will start in September and last till November. 
• 3-20 August House of Europe is on vacation. We will answer all your questions after 20 August.
• You will have to provide two short reports. Please share your feedback on consultations within a week after the end of the mentorship programme. Two months after receiving the stipend, spend the money on advancing your business and send us up to 300 words on how the money was used.
• The stipend payment will be made in UAH according to our internal exchange rate on the transfer day. Our rate can be UAH 1-2 lower than the market one.
• Keep in mind that you may need to deduct taxes. The sum to spend on your business might be slightly lower than EUR 1,000.
• You can get support under Creative Business Survival Kit only once.
• You must spend the stipend on something other than honoraria for yourself. 
• Directly or indirectly funding entities or people listed in EU restrictive measures, as well as benefiting Belarusian or Russian public authorities, is prohibited.