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CREATIVE EUROPE – Markets and Networking – 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.

2026-01-20
16.5 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference CREA-MEDIA-2026-MARKETNET
Programme Creative Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Business & Industry Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries Association & NGO Consular Chamber & Agency EU & International Organisation Media & cultural organisation Professional organisation & network Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities Training organisation & school

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Call reference

CREA-MEDIA-2026-MARKETNET



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Priorities and funded actions

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

Priorities

  • Priority 1: Support for networking activities among audiovisual professionals to promote talent, foster co-productions, and encourage the distribution of European and international works
  • Priority 2: Support the activities of European audiovisual operators at industry events and fairs in Europe and beyond

Among financed actions

  • Markets (industry events, physical, digital or hybrid, focused on business-to-business exchanges among European audiovisual professionals, networks of markets, organised around a thematic basis or geographically)
  • Networking activites (activities related to different existing markets within and outside the countries participating in the MEDIA strand or activities related to the co-creation of series, leading to marketable and competitive European series)

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

Applications by single applicants are allowed, as well as proposals submitted by consortium of at least 2 applicants.

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: maximum 24 months

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

  • Contact: EACEA-MEDIA-MARKETS@ec.europa.eu

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 16.5 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs