Deadline: 5-Oct-21
Call for proposals are now open for the Innovation Lab.
Objective
- 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, apart from the overall general objectives, a thematic approach is also being adopted to ensure that projects that target the policy objectives of Creative Europe are rewarded. For the first year of the Creative Innovation Lab, the two themes that will be specifically covered are greening across the creative and cultural sectors as well as innovative education tools using creativity and creative sectors to tackle relevant societal topics such as disinformation.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 6 320 000. This budget might be increased by maximum 20%.
Expected Results
- Improve the competitiveness 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 (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
- be established in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and owned directly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries; for publicly listed companies, the location of the stock exchange will be taken into account to determine its nationality
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