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Summary
The Creative Innovation Lab shall incentivise players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with a potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors. The InnovLab shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) with a high potential of replicability in those sectors.
Detailed Call Description
Activities shall aim is to encourage cooperation between the audiovisual sector and other CCSs in order to accompany their environmental transition and/or to improve their competitiveness and/or the circulation, visibility, discoverability, availability, diversity and the audience of European content across borders.
Projects must therefore focus on one (or several) of the below topics:
- Virtual Worlds as a new environment for the promotion of European content, audience renewal and competitiveness of European content industries;
- Innovative Business Tools for production, financing, distribution or promotion enabled or enhanced by new technology (AI, big data, blockchain, Virtual Worlds, NFT, etc.), in particular
- Rights’ management and monetisation (including innovative bundled subscription offers to access diverse European cultural content from various existing European platforms), at the same time ensuring transparency and fair remuneration for creators and artists;
- Data collection and analysis, with particular emphasis on prediction for content creation and audience development (including innovative cross-sectoral tools to improve the quality of the subscriber service and a better valorisation of European content offered by European online platforms);
- “Greener” practices in order to lower the impact on the environment of the audiovisual and other cultural sectors in line with the Commission’s Green Deal and the New Bauhaus initiative.
A wide spectrum of organisations will be invited to participate, including private and public entities, tech companies and start-ups, audiovisual, cultural and creative organisations. The participation of business incubators and accelerators shall be encouraged, to provide space and time for creative ideas to be shaped.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- Culture
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- International Organisations
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in Creative Europe Participating Countries.
Consortium composition Applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries), as well as proposals submitted by a consortium of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities).Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
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
EU Contact Point
Contact
Name: Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
Telephone: +32 2 299 11 11 (Commission switchboard)
Address: Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium