Call: Internationale Co-production funds

Creative Europe's stated aims are to help the cultural and creative sectors seize the opportunities of the digital age and globalisation, enable the sectors to reach their economic potential, contributing to sustainable growth, jobs, and social cohesion, and to give Europe's culture and media sectors access to new international opportunities, markets, and audiences.
This will, amongst others, involve funding for:

• artists and cultural professionals
• cinemas
• films
• book translations

• Initiatives that aim to promote the distribution of works and the access to markets
• Initiatives for the development of projects or a set of projects (slate funding)
• Support for the production of television programmes or video games
• Activities to increase interest in and improve access to audiovisual works
• Activities that promote interests in films, such as cinema networks or film festivals
• Measures that facilitate international co-production and strengthen the circulation and distribution of works
• Activities to build the skills and capacities of audiovisual sector professionals

Co-production funds that support international co-productions and offer strategies for a wide release of these projects are funded. EU funding can be used to support the projects supported by the Fund, if they produce feature films, animations or documentaries of a minimum lenght of 60 minutes, intended primarily for cinema release. The films should be distributed in at least three different countries, one being a member of the Media programme. 

Applicant must have a co-production fund that has been legally constituted and active for at least 12 months, having as its main activity the support of international co-productions.

Total budget: 2.75 million €
The maximum amount  of granted funding is 700.000 € and max. 80 % of the eligible costs.