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CREATIVE EUROPE – Creative Innovation Lab – 2026

CREA - Creative Europe aims at preserving, developing, and promoting European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage and to increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.

2026-04-23
7.021.561 million euros 
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Call synthesis

Call reference CREA-CROSS-2026-INNOVLAB
Programme CREATIVE EUROPE
Institution European Commission
Sectors Business & Industry Cooperation & Development Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training Environment & Climate Research & Innovation Services to organisations Social Economy Technology & Digital Territorial Development Tourism
Beneficiaries Association & NGO Consular Chamber & Agency Large company (> 250 employees) Local Authority & Affiliated Entity Media & cultural organisation Professional organisation & network Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities Training organisation & school

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CREA-CROSS-2026-INNOVLAB



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To promote policy cooperation and innovative actions supporting all strands of the Programme, promoting a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment and media literacy
  • To encourage innovative approaches to content creation, access, distribution, and promotion across cultural and creative sectors and with other sectors

Priorities

  • Priority 1: encourage new forms of creation at the crossroads between different cultural and creative sectors
  • Priority 2: foster innovative cross-sectoral approaches and tools

Among financed actions

  • Feature films, animations and creative documentaries
  • Fiction audiovisual works, animation
  • Interactive, non linear fiction
  • Narrative video games and interactive narrative immersive experiences

Eligibility

  • Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • Creative Europe Participating Countries:
      • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
      • non-EU countries:
      • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
  • Be established in one of the countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries.
  • Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal.
  • Applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries), as well as proposals submitted by a consortium of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities).

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: up to 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

  • Contact: EACEA-CROSS-INNOVLAB@ec.europa.eu

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 7.021.561 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: no limit
  • Funding rate: up to 80% of the total eligible costs