CREATIVE EUROPE – European mini-slate development – 2026

Objectives

• To nurture talents, competence and skills and to stimulate cross-border cooperation, mobility and innovation in the creation and production of European audiovisual works, encouraging collaboration across Member States with different audiovisual capacities.
• To foster the competitiveness of European independent production companies in countries with a low audiovisual capacity

Priorities

• Priority 1: Development of audiovisual works by European independent production companies, covering a variety of formats

Among financed actions

• Support to the development of minimum 2 and maximum 3 works for commercial exploitation
• Strategies for marketing and distribution
• Co-development between operators from different countries

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 with a low audiovisual capacity
• Be independent European audiovisual production companies, based in countries with low audiovisual capacity

A consortium composed of only one applicant must be constituted.

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: up to 36 months
• Contact: EACEA-MEDIA-DEVMINISLATE@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 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 60.000 and 310.000 euros

This grant is a lump sum grant.