European Commission CFPs: Innovation Lab Programme

Deadline: 7-Sep-22

The European Commission (EC) is calling for Proposals for Innovation Lab Programme.

Objectives

• The Creative Innovation Lab shall incentivise players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with a potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors. The Lab shall facilitate the creation of innovative solutions (e.g. tools, models and methodologies) that can apply to the audiovisual sector and at least another creative and/or cultural sector. Solutions should be easily replicable and have a potential for market penetration. For the purposes of clarity, the project does not necessarily have to be applicable immediately to the audiovisual sector but one that could easily be replicated in this sector.
• For the purposes of this year’s call, in addition to recurring objectives and activities, a thematic approach is also being adopted. For the second year of the Creative Innovation Lab the two themes are greening as well as innovative education tools to tackle relevant societal topics such as disinformation. The aim is to foster lifecycle thinking and promote a more sustainable and inclusive living environment and way of life. The Creative Innovation Lab will gather players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative solutions (e.g. tools, models and methodologies) for a circular economy. These solutions would need to combine sustainability with inclusion and aesthetics, be replicable in different sectors and have a potential for societal behavioural changes.

Themes

In 2022, in addition to recurring objectives and activities, the action will address the following themes:

• Greening,
• Innovative education tools to tackle relevant societal topics.

Funding Information

The available call budget is EUR 13 640 000

Expected Results

• Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors through cross sector collaboration;
• Improve the greening process of the European audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors through cross sector collaboration;
• Increase knowledge transfer between different sectors of creative industries;
• Increase the visibility, availability and diversity of European content in the digital age;
• Improve business models and use of data;
• Increase the potential audience of European content in the digital age.

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• 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 or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature

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