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Summary
The action European Cooperation Projects supports projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors of all sizes, including micro-organisations and smallsized organisations, and from different countries to undertake sectoral or cross-sectoral activities.
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.
- 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.
Detailed Call Description
The action is anchored in the policy framework of the Culture strand of the Creative Europe Programme and the EU Overarching Priorities (EU greening efforts, inclusion and gender equality, digital transition and international relations). European Cooperation Projects are also designed to contribute to the implementation of emerging EU policy initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus.
Support will be given to cooperation projects contributing to only one of the following objectives:
- Objective 1: 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: 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.
In addition to choosing one of the objectives referred to above, projects must address the EU Overarching Priorities (as described in section 1 Background). Applicants must describe in the application how the project will contribute to these priorities.
Importantly, proposals are expected to present a clear cross-border cooperation dimension as this is at the core of the European Cooperation Projects. The quality of cooperation, including the history of collaboration between organisations and the integration of new organisations in a partnership are key aspects of European Cooperation Projects. The cooperation dimension will allow the action to foster transnational collaboration among cultural and creative organisation and enable the circulation and visibility of European works and the mobility of professionals of the cultural and creative sectors.
At the same time, the action will continue to support Ukrainian artists and cultural operators to showcase their work and support the Ukrainian displaced population in accessing culture in these challenging times. The participation of Ukrainian organisations is encouraged and will reinforce the preparation for the post-war recovery of the cultural and creative sectors.
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.
European Cooperation Projects are open to all the cultural and creative sectors.
However, considering that this action aims to pursue the objectives of the Culture strand of the Programme, projects involving exclusively organisations from the audio-visual sector and projects of a predominantly audiovisual content are out of scope for this call and therefore are not eligible for funding under it.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The grant parameters (maximum grant amount, funding rate, total eligible costs, etc) will be fixed in the Grant Agreement (Data Sheet, point 3 and art 5).
- For CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-1 European Cooperation Projects (Small Scale): maximum EU grant amount €200.000 per project
- For CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-2 European Cooperation Projects (Medium Scale): maximum EU grant amount €1.000.000 per project
- For CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-3 European Cooperation Projects (Large Scale): maximum EU grant amount €2.000.000 per project
The grant will be a lump sum grant. This means that it will reimburse a fixed amount, based on a lump sum or financing not linked to costs.
The amount will be fixed by the granting authority on the basis of the estimated project budget and a funding rate of:
For CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-1 European Cooperation Projects (Small Scale): funding rate of maximum 80%
For CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-2 European Cooperation Projects (Medium Scale): funding rate of maximum 70%
For CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-3 European Cooperation Projects (Large Scale): funding rate of maximum 60%
Thematic Categories
- Culture
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
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 (list of participating countries)
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3, 5 or 10 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
- CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-1 European Cooperation Projects (Small Scale): minimum 3 independent entities from 3 different eligible countries
- CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-2 European Cooperation Projects (Medium Scale): minimum 5 independent entities from 5 different eligible countries
- CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-3 European Cooperation Projects (Large Scale): minimum 10 independent entities from 10 different eligible countries
Οther conditions:
- The coordinator must have had a legal existence for at least 2 years on the date of the deadline for submission
- An organisation, as identified by their valid PIC number, can only participate once as coordinator under the call, regardless of the topics chosen (COOP 1, 2 or 3)
- An organisation, as identified by their valid PIC number, can be part of a maximum of 3 applications submitted in this call, whether as coordinator and/or partner (including associated partner and affiliated entity) regardless of the topics chosen (COOP 1, 2 or 3).
- Should an organisation participate in more than 3 applications, all applications will be assessed without the participation of that organisation. If, as a result, an application does not meet the eligibility criterion related to the Consortium composition without this organisation, the application concerned will be considered ineligible.
- Project coordinators and partners are responsible for ensuring that none of the members of their consortia participates in more than 3 applications in the call.
Eligible activities:
Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities. Projects must also respect EU values and European Commission policy regarding reputational matters (e.g. activities involving capacity building, policy, support, awareness rising, communication, dissemination, etc).
Financial support to third parties is allowed for grants or similar forms of support and prizes under the following conditions:
- the calls must be open, published widely and conform to EU standards concerning transparency, equal treatment, conflict of interest and confidentiality
- the calls must remain open for at least two months
- the outcome of the call must be published on the participants’ websites, including a description of the selected projects, award dates, project durations, and final recipient legal names and countries
- the calls must have a clear European dimension.
Financial support to third parties will be accepted in projects which for example foresee the award of grants (such as talent development bursaries) following an open call or of prizes following an open competition, to culture professionals/artists/innovators to coproduce, innovate and build their capacities.
Your project application must clearly specify why financial support to third parties is needed, how it will be managed and provide a list of the different types of activities for which a third party may receive financial support. The proposal must also clearly describe the results to be obtained.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Organisation of European Programmes & 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
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: EACEA-CREATIVE-EUROPE-COOPERATIONPROJECTS@ec.europa.eu