NEUSTART KULTUR was the rescue and future programme launched by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) in summer 2020 in response to the pandemic to support the cultural sector.

The Fonds Soziokultur received and distributed a total of 34 million euros in additional funding from the BKM's NEUSTART KULTUR programme from mid-2020 to 2023. Between summer 2020 and autumn 2022, it implemented a total of seven different calls for proposals and funded around 1,500 projects throughout Germany.