Horizon Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
Smaller awards, more of them, and almost no capacity to chase them.
Cultural, social and educational funding is spread across many programmes with modest individual awards, which makes the search cost per euro higher here than anywhere else, for organisations least equipped to absorb it.
Specific to this sector
The economics of applying are the barrier
When an award is modest, a week of staff time spent applying is a real cost against an uncertain return, so organisations apply to the one programme they already know and ignore the rest. Reducing the cost of finding and drafting changes which applications are worth making, which matters more here than a higher success rate would.
Where the money is
The programmes that fund this sector, European and national. Each is screened against your organisation rather than listed for you to read.
- Horizon Europe Cluster 2
- Social sciences, heritage, democracy
- Creative Europe
- Culture and media sectors
- Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values
- Civil society and rights
- Erasmus+
- Education, training and youth partnerships
- National culture and social funds
- Numerous, small, and rarely tracked centrally
Alongside more than ten national funding sources. Most competitors cover one country at a time.
Who this covers
Eligibility in this sector depends as much on what kind of organisation you are as on what you are building.
- Cultural institutions and museums
- NGOs and social enterprises
- Education and training providers
- Social science research groups
- Municipalities and local authorities
What kind of organisation are you?
The funding is the same. The argument for using us is not; it depends on whether you currently apply at all, pay somebody to, or answer for a whole territory.
See what Culture & Society funding you qualify for
Upload a project description and the platform screens it against every open programme in this sector, European and national.