Creative Europe: Supporting and promoting Europe’s film and audiovisual sector!

Creative Europe, is the European Commission’s programme dedicated to supporting the culture and audiovisual sectors. It is a vast programme, which is subdivided into three strands, with the media strand being specifically designed to support Europe’s audiovisual industries which include film, cinema, television, video on demand, new media and videogames. The Media Strand aims to encourage competitiveness, innovation and sustainability in the sector. 

The focus of this strand rests on four pillars: encouraging cooperation, nurturing talents, enhancing global circulation, and supporting audience engagement and development. All this is done through a number of calls, which are divided into four clusters which incorporate calls dealing with different aspects of the industry. 

The Content Cluster encourages collaboration and innovation in the creation, development and production of high-quality works; the business cluster promotes business innovation, competitiveness, scalability and talents, to strengthen Europe’s industry on a global scale; the audience cluster strengthens the accessibility and visibility of works for their potential audiences through distribution channels and also through audience development initiatives, and the policy cluster supports policy discussion and exchange fora, as well as studies and reports.

With grants such as Video Games and Immersive Content Development Call and Innovative Tools and Business Models Call with fast-approaching deadlines, we encourage you to reach out for other calls which could be highly beneficial to your audiovisual company! These include especially the European Co-Development Call, which particularly encourages transnational collaboration between European independent audiovisual companies, as well as the Mini-Slate Development Call, a grant dedicated to countries with a low audiovisual capacity. 

The offices of Malta’s Creative Europe Desk, located in Valletta, make it easy to reach by anyone who wishes to know more about the programme. The friendly team offers assistance related to the programme, and it is their prerogative to reach out to people in varying ways, amongst which: one-to-one meetings, information sessions, online events, and participation in industry-related events. 

Get in touch with the Creative Europe Desk Malta on 20908990/1/7 and stay up to date with what we are up to by following our Facebook Page- Creative Europe Desk Malta or by visiting: www.creativeeuropemalta.mt