Creative Europe – European co-development – 2023

Objectives

• To promote competitiveness, scalability, cooperation, innovation and sustainability, including through mobility in the European audiovisual sector
• 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
• To support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential

Priorities

• Priority 1: to provide support to the development of one European co-development project

Among financed actions

• Feature films, animations and creative documentaries of a minimum length of 60 minutes intended primarily for cinematic release
• Fiction projects (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 90 minutes, animation (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes and creative documentaries (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 50 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of television or digital platform exploitation
• Interactive, non-linear fiction, animation or creative documentary projects (e.g. narrative virtual reality projects) of any duration

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: 30 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person (public or private entity)
• Be independent European audiovisual production companies
• The coordinator must be able to demonstrate recent experience in producing internationally distributed works
• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

• Total budget of the topic: 6.5 million euro
• Total amount of the grant:
  • Up to 60 000 euro
  • Up to 100 000 euro for co-development of TV series with an intended production budget of 20 million euro and above
• Co-financing rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs
• The grant is a lump sump grant.