EUNIC Spaces of Culture 2025 – Call for Proposals (Up to EUR 50,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 8, 2025

European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) launches Spaces of Culture name for proposals, supporting seven new cultural relations tasks in Sub-Saharan Africa. Spaces of Culture is a brand new programme centered particularly on Sub-Saharan Africa and modelled on the European Spaces of Culture programme. It prioritises collaboration, dialogue, and mutual studying between European and native companions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Spaces of Culture launches as part of the broader Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture programme from the European Commission, which goals to encourage cooperation between African and European artists, creators, and cultural professionals.

The objective of this name is to assist cultural relations tasks in Sub-Saharan African nations, based mostly on equal partnerships and native possession, involving native cultural and civil society stakeholders, EUNIC members, and EU Delegations. Selected tasks will exhibit innovation and relevance to the native context and exemplify each honest partnerships and an elaboration of the ‘Team Europe’ method in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Funding

• Applicants can request up to EUR 50,000. Co-funding of no less than 5% of the requested grant quantity is required from venture companions or third events (excluding EU Delegations). For instance, a EUR 50,000 grant request requires a minimal co-funding of EUR 2,500.
• Pre-payment of 80% of the awarded grant shall be made earlier than implementation, and the remaining 20% shall be paid upon completion.

Eligibility

• Project proposals should embrace a minimal of three full EUNIC members (with doable exceptions in nations with restricted EUNIC presence), three key native cultural and/or civil society companions, and involvement from EU Delegation(s) within the nation(ies).
• The name goals to broaden the vary of native organisations collaborating with European counterparts in Sub-Saharan Africa. The name additionally helps the involvement of EUNIC members that want to intensify their collaboration on the continent, notably the place the presence of EU Member States or a EUNIC cluster is proscribed.

Evaluation Criteria

An impartial jury of 4 specialists from Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe with thorough data of and expertise in Africa-Europe cultural relations will collectively consider proposals towards the choice standards.

All purposes shall be evaluated based mostly on targets, goal teams, and proposed actions, together with:

• Relevance to native context
• Innovation
• Partnership set-up
• Foreseen influence
• Alignment with UN SDGs
• Feasibility and price-effectiveness
• Environmental sustainability

Application

Your application should embrace the next paperwork:

• Application kind
• Estimated balanced price range in EUR
• Support letters from all venture companions

Download the application documents here

Submit your purposes in English to [email protected]. Only full purposes, utilizing the templates offered and despatched to the e-mail handle above earlier than the deadline shall be thought of. All candidates will obtain affirmation when the application has been obtained.

For extra data, go to Spaces of Culture.