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. 

In the first five calls for proposals, the Fonds Soziokultur was able to allocate funds from the NEUSTART KULTUR rescue and future programme of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) to 561 participatory cultural projects with a total funding volume of 11 million euros from 1556 submitted project applications over a period of seven months.

  • Kickoff – thematically open call
  • Ta1: Networks + new interfaces
  • Ta2: Young Experts + Co-Production
  • Ta3: Diversity + Inclusion + Variety
  • Ta4: Digitality + Socioculture
  • Commission for "Neustart Kultur"

With the Profile: Socioculture funding programme, the Socioculture Fund carried out the sixth call for proposals as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR rescue and future programme of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM).

The selection committee and the board of trustees of the Socioculture Fund selected 654 of the 785 applications submitted for funding. This means that around 16.9 million euros will go to independent organisations in the fields of socioculture, cultural education, media education and cultural work throughout Germany as part of the special NEUSTART KULTUR programme.

For the first time, organisational processes were funded instead of projects, a new development for the funding landscape. 

  • external Commission
  • list of fundees (2022)

The successful ‘Profile: Socioculture’ funding programme has been launched for a second time, made possible by the extension of the BKM's NEUSTART KULTUR federal programme. With a total of around 4.8 million euros, the Board of Trustees selected 287 development processes for funding in 2023. This was the seventh and final call for proposals organised by the Fonds Soziokultur as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.

  • list of fundees (2023)