The Creative Europe Programme supports the culture and audiovisual sectors.

Within the specific objective of promoting competitiveness, scalability, cooperation, innovation and sustainability, including through mobility, in the innovation, competitiveness and scalability of the European audiovisual sector, one of the priorities of the MEDIA strand is:

• to enhance the circulation, promotion, online and theatrical distribution of European audiovisual works, within the Union and internationally in the new digital environment; including through innovative business model.

The objective of the support to European co-development is to support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential.

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Maximum grant amount: depends on the number of eligible beneficiaries (i.e. coordinator and partner(s), not their affiliated entities) that are part of the consortium.

If the application is submitted by a consortium of two eligible beneficiaries, the maximum EU grant is €120.000.

For each additional eligible beneficiary, the maximum EU grant increases with €600.00.

However, for the co-development of TV series with an intended production budget of €20M and above, the maximum EU grant for a consortium of two eligible beneficiaries is €200.000, whilst it increases with €100.000 per additional eligible beneficiary.

• Audiovisual sector and Media
• Culture
• Public Administration

• Central Government
• International Organisations
• Large Enterprises
• Local Authorities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• State-owned Enterprises

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)
• be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and be owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. When a company is publicly listed, the location of the stock exchange will in principle determine its nationality.
• be independent European audiovisual production companies
• the coordinator must be able to demonstrate recent experience in producing internationally distributed works.

Specific cases:

• Natural persons are NOT eligible with the exception of selfemployed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person.
• International organisations — International organisations are eligible.
• Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
• EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
• Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’.

Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).

• Independent European audiovisual production companies — An independent company is a company which is not, directly or indirectly, majority controlled by an audiovisual media service provider, either in shareholding or commercial terms. Majority control is considered to occur when more than 25% of the share capital of a production company is held by a single audiovisual media service provider (50% when several audiovisual media service providers have shares or other means of control in the company).
• An audiovisual production company is a company whose main objective and activity is audiovisual production.
• Coordinator with recent experience in producing internationally distributed works —The coordinator must prove it has produced one previous work since 2017 that respects the following conditions:
  • an animation, fiction or creative documentary project (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes, unless it is an immersive animation, fiction or creative documentary project (e.g. Virtual Reality), in which case there is no minimum duration.
  • it has been actually released in cinemas (or similar for location-based immersive projects), broadcast on television or made available on digital platforms in at least three countries other than that of the applicant before the day of the deadline for submission of applications.
  • the releases or broadcasts are of a commercial nature. Screenings during festivals are not accepted as a commercial distribution.

Consortium composition
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:

• an eligible coordinator and at least one eligible partner (i.e. not an affiliated entity of the coordinator), established in at least two different European countries participating in the MEDIA Strand
• the coordinator and the partner(s) must have signed a co-development agreement that needs to be submitted with the application.

Organization of European Programs & Cultural Relations
Νenant Μbogntanovitz
Business Planning Coordinator
Address: Ifigenias 27, 2007 Acropolis, Nicosia
Telephone: +357 7000 1300
Email: info@epcr.org.cy/ nb@epcr.org.cy

For general information on the programme and the Call, please contact your local Creative Europe Desk or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency: EACEA-MEDIA-CODEV@ec.europa.eu.

• Funding&Tenders
• Call document