Networks of European Cinemas

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Creative Europe (CREA)

Programme Description

The Creative Europe Programme supports the culture and audiovisual sectors.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

CREA-MEDIA-2024-CINNET

Call

Networks of European Cinemas

Summary

The aim is to create and operate a network of cinemas.

Detailed Call Description

The aim of the support is to create and operate a network of cinemas with a view to:

  • Encourage cinema operators to screen a significant proportion of non- national European films through incentives and collaborative projects;
  • Contribute to raise and increase the interest of the audience for non-national films including through the development of activities for young cinema-goers;
  • Help those cinemas to adapt their strategy to the changing environment including by promoting innovative approaches in terms of audience reach and engagement, as wells as l partnerships with other film industry operators as well as with local cultural institutions;
  • Encourage exchange of best practice, knowledge sharing and other forms of cross border collaboration amongst members of the network;
  • Contribute to the policy dialogue on the film industry by collecting data and disseminating the outcome of the activities of the network beyond its members.

The action will support a network of European cinema operators, with a broad geographic coverage, screening a significant proportion of non-national European films for an increased audience and a renewed cinema going experience, fostering the role of European cinemas in the circulation of European works.

Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness

Call Total Budget

€15.000.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

95%

Thematic Categories

  • Audiovisual sector and Media
  • Culture

Eligibility for Participation

  • Businesses
  • International Organisations
  • Large Enterprises
  • Legal Entities
  • Local Authorities
  • Other Beneficiaries
  • Private Bodies
  • Semi-governmental organisations
  • 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:

The action is open to European cinema networks. A cinema network is a group of European independent cinemas developing, through the medium of a legally constituted co-ordination entity, joint activities in the area of screening and promoting European films.

To be eligible, the cinema network must represent at least 400 cinemas situated in at least 20 countries participating in the MEDIA strand.

A European independent cinema is a company, association or organisation with a single screen or several screens based in countries participating in the MEDIA strand.

The screening of films should be the principal activity of the participant or division of the participant’s organisation.

The participating cinemas must be registered in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA strand.

The guidelines of the coordinator must detail the method of assessment of cinema theatres and their performance based upon precise and objective criteria.

Consortium composition: Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries)

Eligible activities – p. 11-12 of the call document.

Call Opening Date

04/04/2024

Call Closing Date

16/07/2024

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.cynb@epcr.org.cy

EU Contact Point

For general information: EACEAMEDIA-AUDIENCE@ec.europa.eu