As part of the “REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage” project, a grant program is launching to support community initiatives that explore, reflect on, preserve, and develop multicultural heritage as a resource for understanding and resilience.
Ukrainian cultural heritage is a complex, multi-layered landscape that encompasses the histories of coexistence among different cultures, daily practices, traditions, creativity, and people’s experiences. It often also holds within it the experience of historical trauma—loss, violence, forced changes, and silencing. Reclaiming these stories and discussing them in a shared space is an important step toward restoring a sense of community integrity. This is particularly valuable amid Russia’s war against Ukraine, when communities face complex questions about loss, memory, belonging, and the future.
At such a time, it is important to restore and strengthen people’s connections to the places, stories, and cultural meanings that shape community identity. A responsible approach to heritage helps reveal the uniqueness of these territories and strengthen residents’ sense of belonging, uniting the community and creating new opportunities for interaction, education, local culture, and local economic development.
The grant program focuses on the developmental potential of heritage: its ability to strengthen local identity, foster new educational, cultural, tourism, and creative practices, support the sustainability of local institutions, and lay the groundwork for the socio-economic development of communities. The program aims to support community initiatives that engage with multicultural heritage, collective memory, and a responsible understanding of shared heritage as a resource for understanding, participation, and development. For the REHERIT 2.0 project, it is important that the supported projects combine sensitive work with memory and heritage with a realistic vision of their long-term significance for the community.
We invite applicants working in the fields of cultural heritage, culture, local history, museology, creative practices, urban studies, local development, education, research, advocacy, or related fields relevant to the program’s themes to apply.
Applicants may be legal entities or individual entrepreneurs with proven experience in implementing projects or providing services in the specified field.
Grant amount: 10,000 to 30,000 euros.
Applications are submitted in two stages:
- by July 30, 2026, project concepts may be submitted via the online form.
- After the announcement of a shortlist of 20 projects, the second stage is submission of a full application.
Winners will be announced in November.
Projects must be implemented in 2027.
Estimated implementation period: January–September 2027.
Reporting: October–November 2027
Please review the guidelines for the grant application competition.
If you have any questions, please contact us at reherit@lvivcenter.org
A single applicant may submit up to two applications—one per lot—but may receive funding for only one application (the one with the higher evaluation score).
PROGRAM LOTS
Lot 1: Research, Interpretation, and Revitalization of Heritage.
Support for projects aimed specifically at:
- researching and preserving multicultural heritage through participatory formats and approaches (oral history research, archiving, signage, etc.)
- revitalizing and raising awareness of cultural heritage using digital tools (in particular, by creating digital platforms and products: websites, mobile apps, interactive maps, 3D modeling, etc.)
- reimagining the cultural heritage of cities, towns, and villages through artistic practices and media formats (exhibitions, documentary films, working with archival materials through artistic visual or audio practices, podcasts, etc.)
- conducting local advocacy campaigns aimed at fostering an inclusive understanding of cultural heritage, strengthening social ties, and raising awareness through heritage-related work
Lot 2: Heritage Preservation, Management, and Development.
Support for projects aimed at:
- conducting pre-project research and developing project and cost estimate documentation;
- developing project concepts to attract investment, including public investment projects (DREAM);
- restoration/conservation of small cultural heritage sites or parts thereof;
- creating inventories of the current condition of cultural heritage sites and establishing record-keeping documentation;
- developing strategies (for local communities, institutions, and heritage sites) and conservation programs;
- establishing cultural heritage management functions in communities (developing local policies, advocacy campaigns at the local/regional levels regarding cultural heritage management).
Applicants from all regions of Ukraine are eligible to participate in the competition.
Preference will be given to projects that demonstrate a substantive connection to the community’s multicultural history, local context, ongoing initiatives, or existing processes aimed at researching, preserving, revitalizing, or responsibly managing multicultural heritage.
The grant program “Discovering the Common: Memory, Stories, and Cultural Heritage” is one of the key components of the “REHERIT 2.0: Shared Responsibility for Shared Heritage” project, which aims to revitalize, rethink the role of local multicultural heritage as a shared asset for local socioeconomic development, as well as a resource for fostering understanding and overcoming discrimination.
“REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for a Shared Heritage” is implemented by the Center for Urban History and the Center for Regional Development of the PPV Economic Development Agency with financial support from the European Union.
This publication was created with the financial support of the European Union. Its content is the sole responsibility of the partners of the REHERIT 2.0 project and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
