Funding programme

Creative Europe is the EU’s funding programme for providing support to the culture and audiovisual sectors.

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Call overview

This call aims to support projects involving involve organisations in the cultural and creative sectors of all sizes and from different countries to undertake sectoral or cross-sectoral activities.

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Call detail

Support will be given to cooperation projects contributing to only one of the following objectives:

Objective 1 - Transnational creation and circulation: to strengthen the transnational creation and circulation of European works and artists. Transnational creation and circulation are important for the advancement of collaborations, increased outreach and in many cases necessary for the viability and development of cultural organisations, institutions and individuals. Co-production is also a tool to stimulate creativity, share resources and facilitate the trans-national distribution of content and the circulation of artists. Projects will consider the new context such as health or environmental concerns and integrate innovative (digital) ways of producing and disseminating content.

Objective 2 – Innovation: to enhance the capacity of European cultural and creative sectors to nurture talents, to innovate, to prosper and to generate jobs and growth. Projects responding to this objective should be of capacity-building nature, which can be of technological and/or artistic nature and may include the development and experimentation of new practices or models, as well as the transfer and dissemination of innovative practices.

Areas of innovation can encompass a social or societal dimension such as: audience engagement/development, gender equality, the inclusion of people with disabilities, people belonging to minorities and people belonging to socially marginalised groups, fighting climate change, digitisation, etc. as well as culture’s contribution to health and well-being, especially mental health, given the existing evidence and the persisting mental health crisis affecting in particular the youth.

Activities funded

Proposals must include activities in line with the objectives of the call.The proposed activities must be grouped (in the application form) in coherent Work Packages (i.e. major sub-division of the project) which will be linked to pre-defined deliverables. All deliverables must illustrate the scope, reach, progress and success of the proposed activities. Depending on the focus of the project (to co-produce, cooperate, experiment, innovate, etc.), activities eligible for funding may be very diverse.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

+ be legal entities (public or private bodies)

+ be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: Creative Europe Participating Countries:

• EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• non-EU countries
• listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)

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Consortium composition

The consortium most be composed of 5 entities from 5 different eligible countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme.

The coordinator must have had a legal existence for at least 2 years on the date of the deadline for submission.

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Duration

Projects should not normally exceed 48 months.

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Budget

The maximum EU grant amount is EUR 1 000 000 per project.