The cultural life in hromadas and small cities reaches a higher level of quality thanks to state programmes for financial support as well as decentralisation that brings new opportunities and new quality in the management of territories.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman made this statement during his meeting with the participants of the “Small Cities – Great Impressions” Contest for culture and art projects.

The project was launched last year. It is funded from the state budget and aimed at supporting new ideas in the culture area in small cities and amalgamated hromadas. A year ago, applicants submitted 167 initiatives, eight of which became the winners. This year, there are 182 applications participating in the contest, and 74 of them have been selected as the winners (LIST). The total funding for these cultural initiatives will be equal to UAH 41.3 million. The regions with the highest number of the winners are the Odesa and Lviv Oblasts – eight cultural projects will be implemented in each of these oblasts respectively. Th Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts also belong to the top five regions demonstrating the highest engagement in the field of culture.

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