CREATIVE EUROPE – Creative Innovation Lab – 2025

Objective

To encourage innovative approaches to content creation, access, distribution, and promotion across cultural and creative sectors and with other sectors, including by taking into account the digital transition, covering both market and non-market dimensions.

Priorities

• Priority 1: To encourage new forms of creation at the crossroads between different cultural and creative sectors, for example through experimental approaches and the use of innovative technologies
• Priority 2: To foster innovative cross-sectoral approaches and tools which shall, where possible, encompass multilingual and social dimensions to facilitate the distribution, promotion and monetisation of, and access to, culture and creativity, including cultural heritage

Among financed actions

• Development, production, distribution, promotion and circulation
• Feature films, animations and creative documentaries intended primarily for cinematic release
• Fiction audiovisual works (one-off or series), animation (one-off or series) and creative documentaries (one-off or series) 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)

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (Click here)
• Be established in one of the countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and be owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries
• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months
• Contact: EACEA-CROSS-INNOVLAB@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 5.001.863 euro
• Amount of the grant: No limit
• Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs