Money here records the masters while they can still teach

A videographer works to a fixed protocol: a life interview of 45 to 90 minutes in Ukrainian, then 30 to 60 minutes of over-the-shoulder technique at 4K with a macro pass on brush loading and on the перехідний мазок, then 10 to 30 works photographed at archival resolution, then a signed consent covering archive, publication, teaching and licensing.

One unit is one master, all in: the fee to the master, the videographer day rate, travel, transcription, translation, editing and storage. Each session is deposited three times — here, with a Ukrainian institution, and on an offshore mirror. Of the masters on the public Ukrainian-language roster who have no recorded death year, 28 were born before 1956.

Four to eight hours of coordinator time per master: outreach, intake, photo triage, translation, and the approval chain that carries a profile from submitted to identity checked to practice evidenced to confirmed. Forty masters is roughly 250 hours of that work.

This is the line that answers machine-made imitation. Marketplaces for handmade work are filling with generated listings faster than they can be policed, and the only durable reply is a named living person with a documented practice, consent on file and a date on the record.

Ten modules in Ukrainian and English, cut from the recorded footage: history, vocabulary, loading the brush, leaves and berries, flowers, birds, composition. Free to Ukrainian schools and to schools hosting refugee children, licensed to everyone else.

UNESCO’s own inscription text records that local schools in Petrykivka teach the fundamentals of the painting from pre-school upward. Transmission through teaching is the stated reason the element is on the list, which is the argument for building this properly.

Stipend, materials and the master’s fee for a younger practitioner to study with a named master aged seventy or over for three to six months, on the condition that recorded teaching material goes into the archive at the end of it.

Grant committees score transmission above everything else on this page, because transmission is what a safeguarding listing actually asks of a state. A place filled is one more hand that can do this in twenty years.

The main Ukrainian public grant body, running about eleven programmes in parallel. «Культурна спадщина», ЛОТ 2 funds cross-sector heritage projects at 500,000 to 2,000,000 UAH with no co-financing required, and names digital heritage products as eligible; the applicant must be a legal entity or ФОП registered in Ukraine for at least two years. The last cycle ran 15 December 2025 to 15 February 2026 against a programme budget of 45 million UAH.

The near-term lot for a younger body is «Культурні горизонти», лот «Мистецькі дебюти», 250,000 to 715,000 UAH, a one-year registration bar and an EU partner required, closing 5 October 2026. Every application is signed with a Ukrainian qualified electronic signature, which takes weeks to obtain and should be in hand first.

€10,000 to €20,000 over six months, open to museums, archives and civil society organisations working on cultural heritage, with no minimum years of existence — the one major European grant a newly registered Ukrainian body can win immediately. It covers scanning equipment, server and cloud storage, photogrammetry consultants, software and honoraria for the project team, and it names artefacts as digitisable. That is the recording workstream above, paid for line by line.

No fixed deadline is published; calls go out through their newsletter. Their Cultural Institutes Cooperation line, up to €20,000, runs on a rolling deadline on the last day of each month at 15:00 Kyiv and needs a European cultural institute alongside the Ukrainian applicant.

Up to 1,500,000 UAH for one exhibition project abroad, closing 1 November 2026 at 23:59 Kyiv. The project must pair a Ukrainian and a foreign institution, take place in one of the programme’s priority countries, and start no earlier than 1 March 2027. It funds the exhibition itself; this platform becomes the documented digital layer that outlives the tour. A working foreign exhibition partner is the gate here.

Ukraine is an associated country, with full participation agreed in Brussels on 11 December 2024. Small Scale gives a maximum EU grant of €200,000 at a funding rate up to 80%, with at least three independent entities from three eligible countries, and the coordinator must have existed legally for two years at the deadline. The 2026 call closed on 5 May 2026. Its award weighting — relevance 30, quality of content 30, project management 20, dissemination 20, pass mark 70 — is the template the reporting below is built to satisfy.

Between March 2022 and March 2026 ALIPH disbursed USD 8.3 million to nearly 500 Ukrainian organisations in over 140 locations. Emergency Relief is capped at USD 75,000; projects adopted inside an Action Plan carry no fixed budgetary limit. Applications go by email year-round with a decision typically in one to two months. Their Ukrainian money follows physical protection and documentation of collections at risk, so a Petrykivka application has to be shaped around the works and archives in the oblast rather than around a website.

Locally-led protection of heritage under threat: material needs, research missions to identify relief actions, first-aid-to-heritage training, and awareness of damage to culture during an ongoing crisis. Already working in Ukraine. Applications are accepted at any time, which makes this the most realistic first international win for a young organisation.

The most directly usable diaspora grantmaker, organised in Arts, Education and Community Development pillars. Its Community Development / National Projects sector explicitly encourages partnerships and digital technologies, which is the nearest thing in the diaspora world to a grant line for a platform; the Visual Arts sector covers exhibitions, commissioned work and public art tied to Ukrainian Canadian heritage.

It funds up to half of a project’s cost, so every application here needs a matched-funding story — which is one of the jobs the patron tiers above do. [DEADLINE, SECTOR DEFINITIONS AND THE 50% CAP TO BE VERIFIED ON THE FOUNDATION’S OWN SITE — the figures we hold came through a grants aggregator, and we will not print them as facts until we have read them at source.]

International Assistance from the ICH Fund is granted to States Parties rather than to organisations, covering safeguarding of listed elements, inventories, capacity building and preparatory assistance, with preparatory requests due before 31 March each year. At the third Bureau meeting of the 21st session, on 9 June 2026, just over US$320,000 was granted across six requests. This platform cannot apply. Ukraine can, and the useful role available to us is drafting partner for a Ukrainian request on Petrykivka safeguarding.