Applicants are invited to setup creative hubs that can achieve the above objectives as well as the following priorities:

• Improve the knowledge and capacity of creative talents in the creation of fiction series and foster the emergence of strong teams/hubs of European creative talents (e.g. scriptwriters, editors, showrunners, producers) coming from diverse backgrounds and nationalities;
• Facilitate collaborations that follow a learning-by-doing approach, enabling creative talents to work on a set of different projects in parallel;
• Identify and implement working methods for co-writing, from the conceptualisation and early stage of storytelling, to matchmaking with potential buyers;
• Ensure contacts with industry leaders, producers or commissioners of audiovisual works (e.g. distributors, buyers, platforms, broadcasters) to enhance the talents’ understanding of the market trends and dynamics;
• Scout and select talents, for instance through open calls or prizes;
• Enhance the use of:
  • innovative technologies and market intelligence that can affect the creative process (e.g. cognitive neuroscience, data analytics, artificial intelligence);
  • intellectual property rights management as it secures creative autonomy and fair remuneration of creators.

Futher details on the objective and activities of this topic, see the Call document, p. 7-8.

Financial support to third parties is allowed for grants and prizes under the following conditions:

• the calls must be open, published widely and conform to EU standards concerning transparency, equal treatment, conflict of interest and confidentiality
• the calls must remain open for at least two months
• the outcome of the call must be published on the participants’ websites, including a description of the selected projects, award dates, project durations, and final recipient legal names and countries
• the calls must have a clear European dimension
• third parties must be citizens of EU Member States.

Financial support to third parties will be accepted in projects which provide support to individual creators in the framework of co-creation activities.
The project application must clearly specify why financial support to third parties is needed, how it will be managed and provide a list of the different types of activities for which a third party may receive financial support.