The Creative Europe Programme supports the culture and audiovisual sectors.

The objective of the European mini-slate development support is to foster the competitiveness of European independent production companies in countries with a low audiovisual capacity (LCC group A and LCC group B) and to increase their economic weight on the market.

Maximum grant amount: between €60.000 and €310.000 per project.

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

The grant will be a lump sum grant. This means that it will reimburse a fixed amount, based on a lump sum or financing not linked to costs.

The amount is prefixed by the granting authority at:

• Animation one-off: €55.000
• Animation series: €60.000
• Creative documentary one-off: €30.000
• Creative documentary series: €35.000
• Fiction one-off with a production budget below or equal to 5M: €45.000
• Fiction one-off with a production budget above 5M: €60.000
• Fiction series with a production budget below or equal to 5M: €55.000
• Fiction series with a production budget above 5M but below or equal to 20M: €75.000
• Fiction series with a production budget above 20M: €100.000
• Short film: €10.000.

• Audiovisual sector and Media
• Culture

• Businesses
• International Organisations
• Large Enterprises
• Legal Entities
• Local Authorities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

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)
    • non-EU countries:
      • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
• be established in one of the countries with a low audiovisual capacity (LCC group A and LCC group B) participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and be 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.

Following countries are considered countries with a low audiovisual capacity

• LCC group A: Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania
• LCC group B: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia
• The following third countries are also considered within LCC group B, subject to the conditions being fulfilled for their participation in the MEDIA Strand: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Republic of Serbia.
• be independent European audiovisual production companies, based in countries with a low audiovisual capacity (LCC group A and LCC group B), that can demonstrate recent experience in producing internationally distributed works.

Specific cases:

• 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.
• Companies with recent experience in producing internationally distributed works — The applicant must prove it has produced one previous work since 2017 that respects the following conditions:
  • an animation, fiction or creative documentary project (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes, unless it is an immersive animation, fiction or creative documentary project (e.g. Virtual Reality), in which case there is no minimum duration.
  • it has been actually released in cinemas (or similar for location-based immersive projects), broadcast on television or made available on digital platforms in at least three countries other than that of the applicant before the day of the deadline for submission of applications.
  • the releases or broadcasts are of a commercial nature. Screenings during festivals are not accepted as a commercial distribution

In relation to the previous work, the applicant must also be able to prove:

• that it was the sole production company; or
• that it was, in the case of a co-production with another production company, the major co-producer in the financing plan or credited as delegate producer;
  or
• that its Chief Executive or one of its shareholders has a personal onscreen credit on the work as producer or delegate producer.

No other credits, even if seemingly equivalent, are accepted.

Consortium composition: Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries; affiliated entities are allowed, if needed).

Eligible activities – p. 13-14 of the call document.

Organization of European Programs & Cultural Relations
Νenant Μbogntanovitz
Business Planning Coordinator
Address: Ifigenias 27, 2007 Acropolis, Nicosia
Telephone: +357 7000 1300
Email: info@epcr.org.cy/ nb@epcr.org.cy

For general information on the programme and the call, please contact your local Creative Europe desk  or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency: EACEA-MEDIA-MINISLATE@ec.europa.eu

• Funding&Tenders
• Call document