Programme Category
Programme Name
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The Networks of European festivals shall provide support to coordinated/collaborative activities among European audiovisual festivals aiming at increasing audiences’ interest in non-national European audiovisual content and promoting its circulation and visibility.
Detailed Call Description
Expected results:
- Reinforce cooperation among European audiovisual festivals members of a Network screening a significant proportion of non-national European films and audiovisual works through coordinated/collaborative activities targeted to expand and renew audiences
- Increase the impact of European audiovisual festivals aiming to reinforce promotion, distribution and circulation of non-national European films and audiovisual works to growing audiences across Europe
- Foster exchange of knowledge and best-practice models for cooperation among festivals through coordinated/collaborative activities targeted to expand and renew audiences
- Harness the digital transformation, including developing and updating online tools and dana applications
The eligible activities of the network are those in relation to:
- Coordinated and collaborative activities aiming to expand audience development and interest for European films and audiovisual works
- Coordination of the network members and activities relating to its sustainable structured development (e.g. collaborative events; sharing of know-how and information; communication among members)
- Coordinated and collaborative activities promoting sustainable and environmentally responsible practices
- Support to audiovisual festivals taking place in MEDIA participating countries (through support to third parties)
Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally respectful industry and to promote gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Applications should present activities to be implemented over 2 years.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- Culture
Eligibility for Participation
- International Organisations
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
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)
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
- only applications from eligible entities organising audiovisual festivals in countries participating in the MEDIA strand will be accepted.
By eligible audiovisual festival it is understood an event:
- programming European films and audiovisual works that are being screened to wide audiences including general public as well as accredited international audiovisual professionals and press;
- having a clear curation, regulation and selection procedure;
- 50% of the programming should be devoted to non-national films and audiovisual works from countries participating to the MEDIA strand and presenting a geographical diverse coverage of at least 15 from these countries including low capacity ones.
The support is open to a European network of festivals comprising of a coordination entity plus a minimum of 3 member organisations.
The third parties must fulfil the eligible audiovisual festival criteria mentioned above.
No more than 20% of the festivals participating in the network (including the coordination entity) can come from the same country.
Consortium composition:
Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
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
EU Contact Point
Contact
Name: Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
Telephone:+32 2 299 11 11 (Commission switchboard)
Address:Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium