Creative Europe is the EU’s funding programme for providing support to the culture and audiovisual sectors.
Creative Europe at a Glance
Creative Europe is aimed at organisations active in the cultural, creative, and audiovisual sectors
Entry-level funding opportunities include Small Scale European Cooperation Projects for the development and testing of new initiatives with EU partners
Creative Europe also provides funding for individual artists and cultural professionals to travel and work on projects in other European countries through Culture Moves Europe
Aims & Objectives
The Creative Europe programme aims to:
strengthen the transnational creation and circulation of European works and artists
enhance the capacity of European cultural and creative sectors to nurture talents, to innovate, to prosper and to generate jobs and growth
What does it support?
Creative Europe is comprised of three strands which support the following types of activities:
CULTURE strand: initiatives promoting and enhancing artistic and cultural cooperation at European level
MEDIA strand: actions encouraging the competitiveness, innovation and sustainability of the European audiovisual sector
CROSS-SECTORAL strand: initiatives promoting innovative actions and collaboration across the audiovisual and cultural sectors
Who can apply?
Nonprofit organisations
Municipalities
Associations
Town councils
Charities
Foundations
The sectors funded may include:
Architecture
Archives
Artistic crafts
Audiovisual (including film, television, video games and multimedia)
Books and publishing
Design (including fashion design)
Festivals
Libraries and museums
Literature
Music
Performing arts (including theatre and dance)
Radio
Tangible and intangible cultural heritage
Visual arts
Why does the EU fund arts, creativity and heritage?
The programme has a total budget of €2.54 billion for 2021-2027.
Project Example
TREES - Raising environmental awareness through Performing Arts
Smashing Times is a partner in the Creative Europe-funded project “TREES - Raising environmental awareness through Performing Arts.” Delivered by 8 partners in 7 EU countries, the TREES project aims to raise environmental awareness through the use of theatre and promote intercultural awareness and exchange on issues related to climate change. Learn more about the TREES project on the Creative Europe Desk Ireland website.
