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Is this call for you?
For film institutions, festivals, educators and other organisations running pan-European audience development and film education projects, especially for young audiences. It pays 70% of eligible actual costs for audience events and innovative or cross-border film education built on an evidence-based audience needs analysis.
Grant per projectNo fixed limit
EU pays70% of eligible costs
Project length24 to 36 months
Pass mark70 of 100 points
Strong fit
Film education or film literacy initiatives that work across borders and reach at least 5 MEDIA countries
Projects building young audiences for European non-national films and heritage films
Partnerships between film institutions and existing online platforms
Projects reaching audiences in areas with poor cinema infrastructure (cinema deserts)
Not funded
Projects where less than 50% of the films and audiovisual works come from MEDIA participating countries
Projects reaching fewer than 5 MEDIA participating countries
Schemes that pass funding on to third parties (financial support to third parties is not allowed)
Natural persons other than sole traders
Who can apply
Where you must be based
EU Member States (including OCTs), listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme
International organisations are eligible wherever based. Applicants from countries still negotiating association can sign only if the agreement is concluded before grant signature and covers the call retroactively. Content and audience reach rules refer to countries participating in the MEDIA strand.
Alone or in a consortium
Single applicants allowed; a consortium needs at least 2 beneficiaries (affiliated entities do not count). No minimum number of countries for partners is stated.
You must
1Be a legal entity (public or private body); self-employed sole traders without separate legal personality are also accepted
2Be established in a Creative Europe participating country: EU Member States (including OCTs), listed EEA countries or countries associated to Creative Europe
3Films and audiovisual works in the project must be at least 50% from a country participating in the MEDIA strand
4Activities must reach audiences in at least 5 countries participating in the MEDIA strand
5Register in the Participant Register before submitting and pass validation
Who cannot apply
Natural persons (except sole traders as above)
EU bodies (except the European Commission Joint Research Centre)
Entities subject to EU restrictive measures (Article 29 TEU, Article 215 TFEU), in any role
Entities subject to EU conditionality measures under Regulation 2020/2092, currently Hungarian public interest trusts set up under Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or entities they maintain
Applicants in an EU exclusion situation (bankruptcy, fraud, tax or social security breaches, grave professional misconduct, etc)
Heritage films+
A heritage film is a film on release at least 10 years after its production year.
Creative Europe Desks+
Host organisations may be coordinator or beneficiary only if they separate project management from information provision and prove cost separation through analytical accounting.
Entities without legal personality+
May exceptionally take part if their representatives can take on legal obligations for them and offer equivalent guarantees for EU financial interests.
Associations and interest groupings+
May join as sole beneficiaries or beneficiaries without legal personality. Members who carry out the work must also join as beneficiaries or affiliated entities, or their costs are not eligible.
Financial capacity is checked for coordinators, except public bodies, international organisations, cultural and creative sector entities with over 50% public revenue in the last two years, and requests of EUR 60 000 or less. Operational capacity is assessed with the Project management criterion; public bodies, Member State organisations, international organisations and those cultural entities are exempt.
The money
Budget for this topic
EUR 7 000 000
Grant per project
No limit
EU pays
70% of eligible costs
Type of grant
Actual costs, with unit cost and flat-rate elements
Project length
Normally 24 to 36 months (extensions possible if duly justified, through an amendment)
Overheads
7% flat rate on eligible direct costs (categories A to D, except volunteers' costs and exempted categories)
Payments
Prefinancing of normally 40% of the maximum grant, paid within 30 days of entry into force or guarantee; one or more additional prefinancing payments linked to a prefinancing report; balance at the end. All payments go to the coordinator.
Financial support to third parties is not allowed
Grants may not produce a profit; for-profit organisations must declare revenues and any profit is deducted
Travel and subsistence must use unit costs; SME owner/natural person unit cost allowed; volunteers unit cost not allowed
Equipment is eligible as depreciation only
Non-deductible VAT is eligible, except VAT paid by public bodies acting as public authority
In-kind contributions for free are allowed but cannot be declared as costs
Subcontracting above 30% of total eligible costs must be justified
Budget subject to final adoption of the EU budget 2027
How proposals are scored
Evaluators score each proposal out of 100. You need at least 70 to be considered for funding, and the budget then goes to the highest scores first.
45
35
10
10
Pass mark 70
Relevance
45 pts
Potential to increase interest in European films and audiovisual works, including European non-national and heritage films, especially among new and young audiences (15 points)
Coherent, evidence-based needs analysis of audience and/or market insights shaping activities and impact (5 points)
European dimension and added value of partnerships: new and different partners, grass-roots organisations, pan-European cooperation, geographic coverage, content and cultural diversity, added value over core activities (15 points)
Strategies for a more sustainable and environmentally respectful industry (5 points)
Strategies for gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness (5 points)
Quality of content and activities
35 pts
Overall quality: format, methodology, selection process, target groups and territories, educational methods; how the project builds on previously funded projects, if any (15 points)
Feasibility and cost-efficiency, including financial sustainability, against the pan-European objectives (5 points)
Innovative activities and methods (cross-border film education, technology, new tools) clearly justified and linked to impact, focused on reaching new audiences (15 points)
Project management
10 pts
Distribution of roles and responsibilities against the objectives, with emphasis on previous partnerships if applicable (10 points)
Dissemination
10 pts
Impact of the promotion and dissemination strategy, in particular pan-European exchange of knowledge and best practices (5 points)
Sustainable methods for collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data on pan-European audience reach (5 points)
Ties ranked by Relevance score, then Dissemination, then Quality of content and activities
Timeline
Call opens30 September 2026
Submission deadline2 March 2027, 17:00 Brussels time
EvaluationMarch to August 2027
Evaluation resultsSeptember 2027
Grant agreement signatureDecember 2027
What to submit
Online only, via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System from the topic page; all participants need an EU Login and a PIC
Page limitPart B: 70 pages
Your application
Part A: administrative information and summarised budget (online)
Part B: technical description (download the Word template, upload as PDF)
Part C: additional project data and contribution to programme KPIs (online)
Required work packages
WP1 Project management (mandatory)
Additional work packages for the different activities may be added
Traps that get proposals rejected
At least 50% of the films and audiovisual works must come from MEDIA participating countries, or the project is ineligible
Activities must reach audiences in at least 5 MEDIA participating countries
No financial support to third parties: you cannot run sub-grant or regranting schemes
Part B is capped at 70 pages and evaluators ignore extra pages
The needs analysis must be backed by solid evidence and the proposal must state quantifiable targets for impact on European audiences
If you were funded before, you must explain how this proposal builds on those results; it counts toward a 15-point sub-criterion
Every beneficiary and affiliated entity must be registered in the Participant Register with a PIC before submission
Use the forms inside the Submission System, not the topic page copies, and upload each document to the right category or the proposal may be inadmissible
Read from the official call document (V1.0, 30.09.2026). The call document is the legal reference: check it before you submit.
What this call funds
Expected Impact
Stimulate interest and increase knowledge of audiences in European films, including specific programmes on film heritage, and other audiovisual works including videogames and immersive content
Strengthen pan-European cooperation for innovative audience development and film education projects especially using new digital tools
Increase pan-European impact and audience outreach
Develop film education projects across European and non-European territories
Scope
Projects ensuring pan-European cooperation and innovation, based on a robust needs’ analysis of audiences, especially targeting young audiences, using evidence-based strategies, aiming to:
- increase interest in, knowledge of and access to audiences, in particular young ones, to European films including dedicated programmes on film heritage and other audiovisual works,
- enhance pan-European impact and audience outreach,
- promote and increase the contribution of existing European films and audiovisual works, towards audience development, film education and film literacy.
Activities should include audience-oriented events and innovative or cross-border film education initiatives. Cooperation between film institutions and existing online platforms is encouraged.
Applications should present a thorough analysis of audiences’ and/or markets’ needs, supported by solid evidence. The expected impacts on European audiences and the added value of the proposal’s activities must be clearly outlined, including quantifiable targets.
Strategies must be presented to ensure a more sustainable and environmentally respectful industry along with ensuing gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Projects are also encouraged to engage audiences in areas where cinema infrastructures are poorly developed (cinema deserts).
Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal · synced 2026-11-09
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