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TV and online content Animation projects - 1st cut-off date
Funding Program
Creative Europe - Media Strand
Call number
CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINE-1
deadlines
Opening
30.09.2025
Deadline
03.12.2025 17:00
Funding rate
€ 70 000 - € 2 000 000
Call budget
€ 22,000,000.00
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Call content
short description
The objective of the support to TV and online content is the production of innovative and quality TV content and serial storytelling, addressing diverse audiences, by European independent production companies.
Call objectives
Within the specific objective of promoting competitiveness, scalability, cooperation, innovation and sustainability, including through mobility in the European audiovisual sector, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Strand is:
- to nurture talents, competence and skills and to stimulate cross-border cooperation, mobility and innovation in the creation and production of European audiovisual works, encouraging collaboration across Member States with different audiovisual capacities.
The objective of the support to TV and online content is to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector. The action aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including from low capacity countries, in order to produce high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment. Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
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Expected effects and impacts
- Increased production of high-quality European works for linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms, as well as an increase in the number of co-productions.
- Enhanced cooperation between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including between broadcasters and from low-capacity countries.
- Increased audience for European works through linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms.
Expected results
The TV and online content action supports works [animation (topic 1), documentary (topic 2) and drama films (topic 3)] intended for linear and non-linear broadcasting, presenting:
- strong cooperation between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including between broadcasters;
- high creative/artistic value and wide cross-border exploitation potential able to reach audiences at European and international level;
- innovative aspects in terms of the content and the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry (in particular through the use of greening consultants allowing to reduce the environmental impact of productions and shootings) and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
The following projects are ineligible:
- live recordings, TV games, talk shows, cooking shows, magazines, tv-shows, reality shows, educational, teaching and “how to” programmes;
- documentaries promoting tourism, “making-of”, reports, animal reportages, news programmes and “docu-soaps”;
- projects including pornographic or racist material or advocating violence;
- works of a promotional nature;
- institutional productions to promote a specific organisation or its activities;
- music videos and video-clips;
- projects already financed by Eurimages;
- productions originally intended as cinema works (e.g. several theatrical distributors and/or an international sales agent involved).
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Albania (Shqipëria), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Iceland (Ísland), Liechtenstein, Montenegro (Црна Гора), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Norway (Norge), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија)
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
No
Project Partnership
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))
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
- be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. When a company is publicly listed, the location of the stock exchange will in principle determine its nationality.
- be independent European audiovisual production companies
Specific cases
Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).
Independent European audiovisual production companies — An independent company is a company which is not, directly or indirectly, majority controlled by an audiovisual media service provider, either in shareholding or commercial terms. Majority control is considered to occur when more than 25% of the share capital of a production company is held by a single audiovisual media service provider (50% when several audiovisual media service providers have shares or other means of control in the company). An audiovisual production company is a company whose main objective and activity is audiovisual production.
EU restrictive measures — Special rules apply for entities subject to EU restrictive measures under Article 29 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). Such entities are not eligible to participate in any capacity, including as beneficiaries, affiliated entities, associated partners, subcontractors or recipients of financial support to third parties (if any).
EU conditionality measures — Special rules apply for entities subject to measures adopted on the basis of EU Regulation 2020/209211. Such entities are not eligible to participate in any funded role (beneficiaries, affiliated entities, subcontractors, recipients of financial support to third parties, etc). Currently such measures are in place for Hungarian public interest trusts established under the Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity they maintain (see Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, as of 16 December 2022).
other eligibility criteria
Applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries; affiliated entities are allowed, if needed), as well as proposals submitted by a consortium of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities).
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
max. 36 months
Additional Information
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Calls for proposals section).
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
- Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
- Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (template to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded)
- Part C — contains additional project data and the project’s contribution to EU programme key performance indicators (to be filled in directly online)
- mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):
- Lump sum calculator (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
- A PDF document with information about film(s)/work(s) to be generated from the Creative Europe MEDIA Database
- A creative presentation of the project (with a director’s note, a booklet,a graphic presentation, a sample of script, etc.), including a link to the trailer/teaser if available
- A Production Financing Structure (to present an overview of all confirmed sources of financing to cover the total production budget) (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
- Confirmed sources of financing and (if applicable) co-production contract(s) (scanned copies of all the supporting documents for the confirmed sources of financing and co-productions, to be provided in the same order as they are mentioned in the Production Financing Structure. Please consult the instructions in the template of the Production Financing Structure and the details provided in Section 6 on ‘Eligible Activities’ below to determine all aspects of what can be considered as confirmed sources of financing)
- Letters of intent for distribution (scanned letters of intent from broadcasters/distributors that do not finance the production and are therefore not included in the financing plan)
- Declaration on independence and ownership (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
- Declaration on language of the submitted materials (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B).
The estimated available call budget is EUR 22 000 000. The budget is divided indicatively as follows:
- 40% for the 1st cut-off date,
- 60% for the 2nd cut-off date.
A minimum of 25% of the budget will be reserved for animation projects, and another 8% for documentary projects.
Specific budget information per topic are:
- Topic 1 — TV and online content Animation projects EUR 5 500 000
- Topic 2 – TV and online content Documentary projects EUR 1 760 000
- Topic 3 – TV and online content Fiction projects EUR 14 740 000
Call documents
Call Document CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINECall Document CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINE(815kB)
Contact
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Creative Europe Desk Austria - Media
+43 1 526 97 30-406
info@mediadeskaustria.eu
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