# Skills and Talent Development
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**topic id:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING
**call id:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING
**title:** Skills and Talent Development
**programme:** Creative Europe
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-12-09T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING
**description:** Objective:
The objective of the Skills and Talent Development support is to enhance the capacity of audiovisual professionals to adapt to new creative processes, market developments and digital technologies that affect the whole value chain.
Particular focus will be put on supporting new creative processes (e.g. cross disciplinary creative collaboration, innovative storytelling blending creative and digital skills), harnessing digital innovation in audiovisual production (e.g. virtual production, post-production) and distribution (marketing, promotion, audience engagement); uptake of digital tools for videogames production and distribution; enhancing IP rights exploitation; green transition (aiming at promoting sustainable practices across the entire value chain).
Expected results:
* To promote sustainable and more environmentally respectful solutions for the audiovisual industry
* Harness Europe’s creative talent by embracing new creative processes
* To accompany the digital transition of the audiovisual sector in support of content creation and dissemination
* To foster growth and investment through greater exploitation of IP across the EU and beyond
* Equip audiovisual and gaming professionals with a new combination of creative and digital skills, thereby increasing the competitiveness potential of the European industry
Description of the activities to be funded under the call for proposals
• Supporting new creative processes (e.g. creative collaboration including across disciplines, innovative storytelling blending different skill sets)
• Digital transformation: trainings to equip professionals along the whole value chain with state-of-the-art digital tools and data analytics for creative storytelling, production including virtual production, post-production or marketing, promotion, audience engagement and new modes of distribution, monetization and exploitation
• Adaptation to new market trends: including IP rights exploitation (eg. remakes, spin-offs, sequels, merchandising)
• Videogames: trainings to equip professionals with state-of-the-art digital tools and AI-powered technologies for creation, development, production, distribution, promotion and marketing
• Green transition of the audiovisual industry: green consultants, aiming at promoting sustainable practices across the entire value chain; trainings on the implementation of sustainability plans, including the use of tools measuring CO2 emissions.
**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
Described in the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
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: 4th December 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 16th April 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: May-September 2026.
Information to applicants: October 2026.
Signature of grant agreement: January 2027.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
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
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
CREA MGA 
Lump Sum 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 Lump Sum Grants
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2026
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **112665:** 
      -         **action:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING - CREA-LS CREA Lump Sum Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 9500000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-04-16
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-09
**keywords:** CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING, CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING, Training, Training for audiovisual professionals
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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