Deadline Date: April 14, 2026
s in the field of the MEDIA strand under the Creative Europe Programme to support coordinated and collaborative activities among European audiovisual festivals.
The focus areas of the opportunity are to 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; 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; support European festivals and a European festivals’ network or European festivals’ networks screening a significant proportion of non-national European works, while preserving their identity and unique profile.
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. The estimated available call budget is EUR 6,000,000.
Eligible applicants must be legal entities established in Creative Europe Participating Countries or associated countries, organizing audiovisual festivals that program European films and audiovisual works to wide audiences including general public, accredited international audiovisual professionals, and press; have clear curation, regulation and selection procedures; and devote at least 50% of programming to non-national films and audiovisual works from at least 15 MEDIA strand countries, including low-capacity ones.
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