Call: Support for training

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

The audiovisual sector is transforming with the rise of digital technology. This creates additional issues, such as the protection of intellectual property, securing access to financing in a relatively new and changing sector, and ensuring the proper distribution of works.

The Media sub-programme, which supports the audiovisual and multimedia sector, provides opportunities for:

• 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

The objective of the Support to Training is to facilitate the acquisition and improvement of skills and competences of audiovisual professionals and the development of networks. Emphasis is put on the use of digital technologies to ensure adaptation to latest market developments, testing new ways of storytelling in all formats and for all platforms, testing new approaches to audience development including reaching young audiences, testing new business models and enhancing the capacity to access finance.

Applicants must be entities in the audiovisual sector (private companies, non-profit organisations, associations, charities, foundations, municipalities/Town Councils, etc.).

The financial contribution of the Union cannot exceed:

• 60% of the total eligible costs of the action in case of action taking place in countries participating in the MEDIA sub-Programme;
• 80% of the total eligible costs of the action in case of action taking place in countries outside the MEDIA sub-Programme.