CREATIVE EUROPE – Creative Innovation Lab – 2026

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

Useful

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

• 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