EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

EAC/2019/0669

“Cultural Heritage in Action” peer-learning scheme http://www.culturalheritageinaction.eu/culture/Good_practices for local authorities financed by Creative Europe.

The deadline for this open call for local authorities to submit good practices on their cultural heritage actions has been extended until 27 April 2020, 17:00 pm CET.

EACEA 39/2019

Cultural Cooperation Projects in the Western Balkans 2019 https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/ipa/funding/coopwb_en

The deadline for the call for proposals for “Strengthening cultural cooperation with and competiveness of cultural and creative industries in the Western Balkans” has been extended until 28 April 2020, 17:00 pm CET.

EAC/S18/2019

Co-Creation and Co-Production scheme for the music sector https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/content/co-creation-and-co-production-scheme-music-sector_en.

The deadline for this call for the 2019 Preparatory Action “Music Moves Europe: Boosting European diversity and talent” has been extended until 30 April 2020, 13:00 pm CET.

EAC/S53/2019

Music education and learning https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/content/music-education-and-learning_en .

The deadline for this call for the 2019 Preparatory Action “Music Moves Europe: Boosting European diversity and talent” has been extended until 30 April 2020, 13:00 pm CET.

General objectives

The purpose of this call is not to use music as a means to
achieve social inclusion, but rather to attract less advantaged children to the world of music. the overall aim of this call is the
elaboration and implementation of at least 8 innovative approaches to foster informal/non-formal music education and learning, involving either education institutions or representatives/representative organisations from the education sector cooperating with representatives/representative organisations of the music sector. The objective is to test small-scale projects with a European dimension. 

Specific objectives
The proposals should demonstrate their contribution to the general objective by covering the two following specific objectives:
1. Promote the cooperation between non-formal/informal education and the music sector with the aim to foster social inclusion, i.e. access to music for less advantaged children or community involvement;
2. Develop a small-scale project with a clear European added value, that is suitable for the exchange of good practices and could lead to a knowledge transfer for similar projects in other countries.

• BUDGET AVAILABLE
  
  The maximum grant per project will be EUR 30,000.00.
  The Commission expects to fund at least 8 proposals.
  The maximum co-financing rate will be 80%

Call priorities:

- Promote the transnational mobility of artists and professionals with a view to enabling them to cooperate internationally and to internationalise their careers;
- Strengthen audience development and improve access to European cultural and creative works with a particular focus on children, young people, people with disabilities and underrepresented groups;
- Improve capacity by developing new skills for cultural professionals and promoting innovative approaches to creation, new and innovative models of revenue, management and marketing for the cultural sectors, in particular as regards the digital shift;
- Contribute to the social integration of migrants and refugees by enhancing intercultural dialogue, promote shared EU values and mutual understanding and respect for other cultures;
- As a legacy to the European Year of Culture Heritage 2018, raise awareness of common history and values, and reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space.

The project leader and the minimum number of partners per category must be European cultural operators active in the cultural and creative sectors.

The project leader must have had a legal personality for at least 2 years on the date of the deadline for submission of applications and be able to demonstrate its existence as a legal person.
Natural persons may not apply for a grant.

Deadline for applications
Applications must be submitted to and received by the Executive Agency (EACEA) using the online application system and form (eForm) no later than 27 November 2019 at 17.00 CET/CEST (Brussels time).
No other method of submission of an application will be accepted.
Applicants shall ensure that all the documents requested and mentioned in the eForms are provided.

Call specific objective

to foster policy development, innovation, creativity, audience
development and new business and management models through support for transnational policy cooperation, the cross-sectoral strand of the Creative Europe Programme, with aim to provide support to testing of new and cross-sectoral business approaches to funding, distributing and monetising creation.

Deadline: 20.06.2019 

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Specific objective of promoting non-national circulation, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme shall be the following:

supporting theatrical distribution through non-national marketing, branding, distribution and   exhibition of audiovisual works.

Eligible actions

The activities to be funded are campaigns for the pan-European distribution of eligible European films, outside their country of origin, coordinated by the sales agent of the film.

The film must have been majority produced by a producer /producers established in countries participating in the MEDIA sub-programme and made with a significant participation by professionals from those countries. The film must be a work of fiction (including animated films) or documentary with a minimum duration of 60 minutes long.

The film must not consist in alternative content (operas, concerts, performances, etc.) or advertising, pornographic or racist material or advocate violence.

The production budget of the film cannot exceed EUR 15Meuro.

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS
To generate a potential fund and to qualify for reinvestment measures, the film must have been majority produced by a producer/producers established in countries participating in the MEDIA sub-programme and made with a significant participation by professionals from those countries.

The film must be a work of fiction, animation or documentary of more than 60 minutes long and from a different country than the country of distribution.
The film must not consist in alternative content (operas, concerts, performances, etc.) or advertising.
For the film to be eligible its first copyright must not have been established before 2013.

Deadline: 15th January 2019

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS
The present call for proposals is aimed at supporting actions and activities taking place in and outside countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme.
Only those applications corresponding to at least one of the 3 Actions below will be considered as eligible:
• Action 1 – Business to business (physical) markets for European audiovisual professionals
• Action 2 - Online tools encouraging business-to-business exchanges
• Action 3 – Business to business promotional activities of European works
Activities must start between 01/06/2018 and 30/06/2019.
The maximum duration of the action is 12 months.

Deadline: 15/02/18

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS
The Promotion of European Works Online scheme shall provide support to:
- Action 1: Actions such as digital promotion, marketing, branding, tagging and development of new offers by existing VOD services offering a majority of European works. The aim of the action is to improve the visibility, discoverability and global audience of European audiovisual works.
- Action 2: Support to the development of "Online Ready" packages;
- Action 3: Innovative strategies for distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works, including audience development initiatives focusing on innovative and participatory strategies
reaching out to wider audiences with European films.
Applicants submitting projects for different actions should provide separate applications for each action.

Deadline: 05/04/2018

Call for proposals EACEA 32/2017 - 'Support for European cooperation projects 2018' (Category 1 - Smaller scale cooperation projects and Category 2 - Larger scale cooperation projects)

The main objective of the support for European cooperation projects related to the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 is to reflect the purpose of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH 2018), which is to encourage the sharing and appreciation of Europe's cultural heritage as a shared resource, to raise awareness of common history and values, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space
(Art 1.2 of the Decision (EU) 2017/864).

Call for proposals EACEA 35/2017 - 'Support for cooperation projects related to the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018'(Category 3 - Cooperation projects related to the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage)

The following activities are not eligible:
 Activities dedicated to research or tourism linked to cultural heritage
 Surveys (given that a EU-wide Eurobarometer survey on cultural heritage is being conducted as part of the activities of the European Year of Cultural Heritage).
 Conferences, exhibitions, workshops etc, as core activities of the project (these type of activities can be ancillary to it, in particular in view of the communication and dissemination strategies of the project).

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS
The development activities for the following audiovisual works are eligible:
- 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;
- Fiction projects of a total duration or user experience of minimum 90 minutes, animation of a total duration or user experience of minimum 24 minutes and creative documentaries of a total duration or user experience of minimum 50 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of Digital platform exploitation. For projects presenting a user experience in a non-linear format (e.g. Virtual Reality), these minimums do not apply.

The digital platform is addressing the following types of projects: animation, creative documentaries and fiction projects intended for multiple screen-based devises, interactive projects, linear and non-linear web-series and narrative virtual reality projects.

Deadline: 

The call for proposals has two deadlines. To be included in the 1st deadline, the application for support must be submitted and received between the date of the publication of the call for proposals and 23/11/2017, 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time). To be included in the 2nd deadline, the application for support must be submitted and received between 01/12/2017 and 19/04/2018, 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time), the date of
closure of the call for proposals.

General objectives

This call is confined to the artistic creation in the music sector and, for the purpose of this call for proposal, the terms of co-creation and co-production are used as synonyms that
depict the collaborative process of artistic creation of lyrics and songs, aiming at commercialisation and revenue generation.

the general objective of this call is to identify and to support at least 10 innovative and sustainable pilot co-production and co-creation programmes for songwriters and musicians in the music sector with a clear European added-value  in order to facilitate the development of European music repertoire.

Specific objectives
The proposals should demonstrate their contribution to the following compulsory specific objective:
Organise a nurturing and inspirational camp of European dimension to group creative people to improve the participants’ songwriting skills. The camp should provide opportunities to learn from experienced professionals, boost creative writing skills,
enable collaboration with other camp attendees, help build the participants’ songwriting network, promote networking with successful music industry professionals, and help participants navigate through the creative process and the business side of songwriting.
The proposed co-production and co-creation schemes should have a clear vision on how the produced musical products will be used for pitching and envisage how they can reach the audience.

#CreativeEurope Cultural Cooperation Projects in the Western Balkans 2019

The overall objective of this Call is to foster reconciliation and good neighbourly relations in the Western Balkans through cultural cooperation and creation.
The specific objectives of this Call are:
• to increase cultural cross-border cooperation within the Western Balkans region and the EU Member States;
• to strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries in the region.

Priorities:

Increase the capacity of cultural and creative industries to operate transnationally and internationally
• Increase transnational circulation of cultural and creative works and transnational mobility of cultural and creative players
• Enhance inter-cultural dialogue between artists, cultural operators as well as the general public

Call priorities

- supporting the promotion of European translated literature;
- encouraging the translations from lesser used languages2
into English, German, French and Spanish (Castilian) as these may contribute to a wider circulation of the works;
- encouraging the translation of less represented genres such as works for a younger public (children, adolescents and young adults), comics/graphic novels, short stories or poetry;
- encouraging the appropriate use of digital technologies in both the distribution and promotion of the works;
- encouraging the translation and promotion of books which have won the EU Prize for Literature (see http://www.euprizeliterature.eu);
- raising the profile of translators. For that reason, publishers will be required to include a biography of the translators in each translated book.

Deadline: 04/06/19 - 12:00 noon (CET/CEST, Brussels time)

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The creation of a curated catalogue of European films and related pedagogical material to be made available to young people between 11 and 18 years old attending primary and secondary schools in the countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme. 

The catalogue shall include well-known movies that have contributed to the history of European filmography to be used in the context of Film Education activities.

Deadline:07/03/2019 - 12:00 (CET, Brussels time) 

Minority Co-production support, the Hubert Bals Fund aims to encourage European producers to participate as a minority co-producer in high-quality film projects by filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. HBF+Europe is supported by the Creative Europe - MEDIA programme of the European Union.

The maximum amount awarded per project is €52,000.

Deadline:1/04/2018

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS
The eligible activities of a co-production fund including the provision of financial support to eligible third parties for eligible projects conforming to the following criteria:
- Production of feature films, animations and documentaries of a minimum length of 60 minutes intended primarily for cinema release.
- Implementation of concrete distribution strategy aiming at the better circulation of the supported works. The film should be distributed in at least 3 territories out of which at least
one participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme and at least one third country
The action must start on 01/09/2018 and end on 30/06/2021

Deadline:06/03/18

ELIGIBLE ACTIONS
Only the activities relating to the development phase for the following projects are eligible:
- Narrative storytelling video games regardless of platform or expected distribution method.
In all cases the video game must be intended for commercial exploitation.

Deadline: 08/03/2018

Projects providing mechanisms for better cooperation between film education initiatives in Europe with the aim to improve the efficiency and European dimension of these initiatives and to develop new and innovative projects, especially using digital tools. The target audience of the film education initiatives must be young people below 19 years old.
Projects providing mechanisms for increasing the contribution of existing European films and audiovisual works to education, including curated catalogues of films. Projects require at least 3
partners, of which at least 2 partners coming from the film education sector. The partners must come from 3 different countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme and cover at least 3 different languages.

Deadline: 01/03/2018 - 12:00 (CET, Brussels time)

• Drama films (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 90 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of television exploitation. Sequels or second and third seasons of an existing drama series are eligible. 
• Animation (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of television exploitation. Sequels or second, third and further seasons of an existing animation series are not eligible.
• Creative documentaries (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 50 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of television exploitation. Sequels second, third and further seasons of an existing documentary series are not eligible.

 Deadline: 

Deadline for submission: - 16/11/2017 - 12:00 (CET/CEST, Brussels time), 24/05/2018 - 12:00 (CET/CEST, Brussels time)

This E-tutorial provides practical information about the financial management of your project. Part I includes an explanation on important rules and advice, eligible and ineligible costs, documents to be submitted as well as audits and evaluation, while Part II offers a detailed, visual demonstration of how to fill in the financial statement.