The Creative Europe Programme supports the culture and audiovisual sectors.

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. The aim is to increase audiences for European works through incentives and collaborative projects.

95%

• Audiovisual sector and Media
• Culture

• Businesses
• International Organisations
• Legal Entities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• 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 list of participating countries)

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

Eligible activities:
Eligible activities are the ones set out in section 2 above (Activities that can be funded.
Cinemas’ network should enable the following activities:

• Networking activities: information, animation, training and communication in view of increasing the audience reach and implementing innovative and collaborative actions including areas with low screen density.
• Provide financial support to participating cinemas implementing eligible activities listed below:
  • Actions aiming at promoting and screening European films and increasing the audience for non-national European films and contributing to a more sustainable and environmentally respectful industry.
  • Innovative activities aiming at reaching new audiences and raising interest among young cinemagoers for European films by renewing and enriching the cinema experience including in areas where cinema infrastructures are poorly developed.
  • Harnessing the digital transition, including online tools and data applications.
  • Adjusting the business practices of European cinema theatres in terms of sustainability, inclusion and accessibility.
  • Promotion and marketing activities in cooperation with other distribution platforms (e.g. TV broadcasters, VOD platforms).

Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities.

Financial support to third parties is allowed for grants 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 support cinemas implementing the eligible activities above.

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.

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

For help related to this call, please contact:

1. your local Creative Europe desk, or
2. the European Education and Culture Executive Agency

• Funding&Tenders
• Call document