The European Commission has adopted the 2022 work programme of Creative Europe, which will be followed by the launch of the relevant calls for proposals. With a budget of around €385 million, nearly €100 million more compared to 2021, Creative Europe strengthens its support to creative and cultural partners taking due account of the challenges resulting from the COVID-19 crisis and the growing global competition.
The general objectives of the Programme are to safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage as well as to increase the competitiveness and the economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.
Creative Europe's culture strand will include new calls and initiatives for the music, cultural heritage, performing arts and literature sectors. In addition, it will launch a mobility scheme, offering opportunities to artists, creators or cultural professionals to go abroad for professional development or for international collaborations, and to find new audiences, co-produce, co-create or present their work. This action will support projects involving a large diversity of players active in different cultural and creative sectors, to carry out a broad spectrum of activities and initiatives. Depending on the number of organisations involved, projects supported can be small, medium or large scale.
Support will be given to cooperation projects contributing to the following objectives:
- to strengthen the transnational creation and circulation of European works and artists;
- to enhance the capacity of European cultural and creative sectors to nurture talents, to innovate, to prosper and to generate jobs and growth.
The MEDIA strand focuses on audio-visual. Support to the development of innovative video games and virtual reality experiences will be funded. Collaboration between film festivals will be strengthened through networks. The cross-sectoral strand will increase funding for the Creative Innovation Lab for joint-innovation projects involving several creative sectors, contributing also to the New European Bauhaus. The Lab shall incentivise players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with a potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors.
Creative Europe will also address key issues affecting the cultural and creative sectors. MEDIA funded projects will be required to implement strategies for greening and diversity, including gender balance. Creative Europe will therefore contribute significantly to the political priorities of the Commission on sustainability and inclusion. The programme will include initiatives that cover additional EU priorities, such as the contribution to the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life - as well as the European Year of Youth.
Public and private bodies active in the creative sectors can apply for funding with the help of the Creative Europe Desks, based in all EU Member States and third countries associated to the programme. Creative Europe brings together actions supporting the European cultural and creative sectors. The new Programme builds on and continues the structure of the previous one.
The whole Annual Work Programme for the implementation of the Creative Europe Programme for 2022 can be found here.
