Creative Europe

There are three subprogrammes in the Creative Europe programme:  

• Culture: helps cultural and creative organisations to operate transnationally and promotes the cross-border circulation of works of culture and the mobility of cultural players. The supported activities aim to enable cultural and creative players to work internationally.  
  • Horizontal actions: cooperation projects, networks, platforms, mobility for artists and cultural professionals, and policy development. 
  • Sectoral support: support for music, publishing, cultural heritage and architecture as well as other sectors.  
  • Special actions: EU cultural prizes, European Capitals of Culture, European Heritage Label, support for young high-quality artists, and broad citizens’ service outreach. 
• Media: It helps to launch and distribute projects with a European dimension and international potential to travel beyond national and European borders.  
  • Content: Encouraging collaboration and innovation in the creation and production of high quality works. 
  • Business: Promoting business innovation, competitiveness, scalability and talents to strengthen Europe’s industry vis-à-vis global competitors.  
  • Audience: Strengthening the accessibility and visibility of works for their potential audiences through distribution channels and audience development.  
  • Policy: Supporting policy discussion/exchange fora, studies, and reports. Promoting awareness-raising activities.  

• Cross-sector: A cross-sectoral strand, including a Guarantee Facility and transnational policy cooperation. 
  • Transnational policy cooperation: promoting knowledge of the programme and supporting the transferability of results. 
  • Creative Innovation Labs: promoting innovative approaches to content creation, access, distribution and promotion across cultural and creative sectors.  
  • News media: supporting media literacy, quality journalism and media freedom and pluralism.