The cultural and creative sectors are among the industries that were hit the hardest from Covid-19. As such, European creatives and cultural partners have been facing a growing amount of challenges from the pandemic and increasing global competition. Creative Europe will try once more in 2022 to reverse the situation in the sector by providing essential EU funding to support creatives.
The good news is that Creative Europe 2022 budget saw an increase of about 30% over the 2021 budget. The programme’s current budget sits at €385.6 million, an increase of nearly €100 million from last year. With that raise, Creative Europe strengthens further its commitment to support creatives by launching new calls during those critical times.
In this post, we’ll provide you with a list of six new Creative Europe calls that were recently launched, and we will also show you where you can find them.
Where to find calls from Creative Europe
When it comes to EU funding for creative projects, the EU encourages the cultural and creative sectors to use CulturEU. This is a brand new online guide with all current EU funding opportunities available to them. As such, you can find numerous funding opportunities that are open to creatives coming from 21 different EU programmes. Namely, Creative Europe, Horizon Europe, structural funds, and InvestEU.
Another excellent place where you can look for funding or networking opportunities for your projects is EUcalls. The platform has an ever updated list of all available European funding for you to submit your project proposals and a growing list of reliable project partners to collaborate with. If you are looking for funding for creative projects, look at these Creative Europe 2022 calls that you can find on our platform.
6 open calls from Creative Europe 2022
Title: MEDIA 360°
Programme: CREA-MEDIA-2022-MEDIA360
Budget: € 20,000,000
Description: The objective of the MEDIA 360° support is to exploit synergies among existing ecosystems, to develop further cooperation potential, to reach economies of scale across different supported activities, create impact across the value-chain.
The action shall support a package of activities related to facilitating the creation and promotion of European content, and/or the uptake of new technologies or business models for the audiovisual sector. The activities shall benefit across the value chain (“Talent and Skills”, “Markets and Networking”, “Support to international co-productions”, “Innovative tools and business models” and “Audience activities”) implemented by recognised European players, resilient to change and in capacity to attract a large European and international participation. The applicants shall be able to present a global integrated strategy, behind the package of proposed activities, and to demonstrate their strong added-value and structuring effect for the whole European audiovisual industry. Initiatives will aim at reinforcing the capacity to create, produce and promote in an agile approach, high quality European works in all formats and for all platforms able to compete in a global market.
Deadline: 12/04/2022
Title: European Cooperation projects Small Scale
Programme: CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-1
Budget: € 68,607,267
Description: This action will support projects involving a large diversity of players active in different cultural and creative sectors, to carry out a broad spectrum of activities and initiatives. The action is anchored in the policy framework of the Culture strand of the Creative Europe programme and its cross-cutting issues (inclusiveness, reduction of environmental impact and gender equality). European cooperation projects are also designed to contribute to the implementation of emerging EU policy initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus.
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 an exclusive audiovisual content are not targeted for funding under it.
- The consortium most be composed of minimum 3 entities from 3 different eligible countries.
- The maximum EU grant amount is of EUR 200 000 per project.
- The funding rate is of maximum 80%
Small-scale projects are particularly suitable to promote the access of grassroots organisations and support them in the creation of new partnerships and development of new activities and innovative ideas, such as festivals, art fairs, exhibitions, performances, etc.
Deadline: 31/03/2022
Title: European Cooperation projects Medium Scale
Programme: CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-2
Budget: € 68,607,267
Description: This action will support projects involving a large diversity of players active in different cultural and creative sectors, to carry out a broad spectrum of activities and initiatives. The action is anchored in the policy framework of the Culture strand of the Creative Europe programme and its cross-cutting issues (inclusiveness, reduction of environmental impact and gender equality). European cooperation projects are also designed to contribute to the implementation of emerging EU policy initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus.
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 an exclusive audiovisual content are not targeted for funding under it.
- The consortium most be composed of minimum 5 entities from 5 different eligible countries.
- The maximum EU grant amount is of EUR 1 000 000 per project.
- The funding rate is of maximum 70%
Deadline: 31/03/2022
Title: European Cooperation projects Large Scale
Programme: CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-3
Budget: € 68,607,267
Description: This action will support projects involving a large diversity of players active in different cultural and creative sectors, to carry out a broad spectrum of activities and initiatives. The action is anchored in the policy framework of the Culture strand of the Creative Europe programme and its cross-cutting issues (inclusiveness, reduction of environmental impact and gender equality). European cooperation projects are also designed to contribute to the implementation of emerging EU policy initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus.
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 an exclusive audiovisual content are not targeted for funding under it.
The consortium most be composed of minimum 10 entities from 10 different eligible countries.
- The maximum EU grant amount is of EUR 2 000 000 per project.
- The funding rate is of maximum 60%
Deadline: 31/03/2022
Title: Films on the Move
Programme: CREA-MEDIA-2022-FILMOVE
Budget: € 16,000,000
Description: The Films on the Move action shall encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non- national European films.
The activities to be funded are campaigns for the pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution of eligible European films, coordinated by the sales agent of the film.
Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Deadline: 15/03/2022 & 05/07/2022
Title: NEWS-Media Literacy
Programme: CREA-CROSS-2022-MEDIALITERACY
Budget: € 2,400,000
Description: Media literacy aims to allow citizens to develop a critical understanding and use of the media. Media literacy is also a powerful instrument to limit the impact of disinformation. To this end, media literacy actions will encourage knowledge sharing and exchanges on media literacy policies and practices. Support envisages the development of innovative cross-border media literacy initiatives and communities across Europe, in a continuously changing digital media landscape and taking into account current user behaviour among various age groups.
Deadline: 06/04/2022
Conclusion
During tough times for artists, creators and culture professionals, the EU tries to stand by their side to support their recovery through the Creative Europe 2022 programme. You can find calls for the cultural and creative sectors either through the online guide of CulturEU or by looking through the EUcalls database.
Signing up for EUcalls, you can find all available calls easily in a simplified format. But, most importantly, you join a community of thousands experienced EU project partners that are seeking collaborations.
