Call: Support for refugee integration

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

• Cooperation between cultural and creative organisations from different countries;
• Initiatives to translate and promote literary works across the European Union;
• Networks helping the cultural and creative sector to operate competitively and transnationally;
• Establishing platforms to promote emerging artists and stimulating European programming for cultural and artistic works.

The general objective of this call for proposals is to support cultural, audio-visual and crosssectorial projects aiming at facilitating the integration of refugees in the European environment, enhancing mutual cultural understanding and fostering intercultural and interreligious dialogue, tolerance and respect for other cultures. The specific objectives of this call are to establish transnational cultural and audiovisual projects that can:

• help refugees socialise and express themselves without necessarily speaking immediately the host country language.
• be learning platforms in a wider sense, fostering respect and understanding for diversity, intercultural and civic competencies, democratic values and citizenship. 
• give EU citizens the opportunity to discover, learn from and understand the values and cultures of refugees and - in the process rediscover and enrich their own. 
• support the showcasing and co-creation of cultural and/or audiovisual works across Europe. 
• offer the possibility of collaboration with organisations in other sectors in order to stimulate a more comprehensive, rapid, effective and long-term response to this global challenge.

Projects must be submitted by a partnership of no fewer than 3 organisations covering at least 2 countries eligible to participate in the Culture sub-programme. The lead applicant (coordinator) as well as 1 partner organisation must be established in the creative and cultural sectors. A minimum of 1 further organisation must be involved; the additional partner may also come from the creative and cultural sectors, but could also be an organisation that is active in sectors such as the public, social, healthcare, educational, youth spheres or any other field that could support the integration of refugees.

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects is estimated at 1,6 million €. 

Minimum grant 100,000 € representing not more than 80% of the eligible costs. 

Maximum grant 200,000 € representing not more than 80% of the eligible costs.

Applicants are requested to log in at https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/PPMT/ and follow the procedure for submitting an application.

Information on how to register can be found in the portal under the following address: http://ec.europa.eu/education/participants/portal