# Networks of European Festivals
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**topic id:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-FESTNET
**call id:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-FESTNET
**title:** Networks of European Festivals
**programme:** Creative Europe
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-12-04T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CREA-MEDIA-2026-FESTNET
**description:** Objective:
The Networks of European festivals shall provide support to coordinated/collaborative activities among European audiovisual festivals aiming at increasing audiences' interest in non-national European audiovisual content, including video games and immersive content, and promoting its circulation and visibility.
Expected results: 
• Reinforce cooperation among European audiovisual festivals members of a Network screening a significant proportion of non-national European films and audiovisual works through coordinated/collaborative activities targeted to expand and renew audiences.
• Increase the impact of European audiovisual festivals aiming to reinforce promotion, distribution and circulation of non-national European films and audiovisual works to growing audiences across Europe
• Foster exchange of knowledge and best-practice models for cooperation among festivals through coordinated/collaborative activities targeted to expand and renew audiences.
• Harness the digital transformation, including developing and updating online tools and applications.
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in the call document.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
as described in the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
as described in the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
as described in the call document. 

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document.

Publication of the call: 04 December, 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 14 April, 2026 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: April - September, 2026.
Information to applicants: October, 2026.
Signature of grant agreement: January, 2027.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
as described in the call document.

Call document and annexes:
 Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (CREA MEDIA) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Information on programming (CREA MEDIA FESTNET)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
CREA MGA 

Additional documents:
 CREA Annual Work Programmes
CREA Regulation 2021/818 
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
**action type:** CREA Project Grants
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2026
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **112608:** 
      -         **action:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-FESTNET - CREA-PJG CREA Project Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 6000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-04-16
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-04
**keywords:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-FESTNET, CREA-MEDIA-2026-FESTNET, Animation, Documentary, Festival network, Festivals, Fiction, General festival, Short films, Youth programming
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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