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Call key data

European slate development

Funding Program

Creative Europe - Media Strand

Call number

CREA-MEDIA-2025-DEVSLATE

deadlines

Opening
01.10.2024

Deadline
05.12.2024 17:00

Call budget

€ 18,000,000.00

Link to the call

ec.europa.eu

Link to the submission

ec.europa.eu

Call content

short description

The objective of the European slate development support is to foster the competitiveness of European independent production companies and to increase their economic weight on the market. The aim is also to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop projects with potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-production. The support will also provide an entry point for emerging talent, giving them the opportunity to direct a short film supported by the strong foundation provided by experienced companies.

Call objectives

Support will be given to independent European production companies able to develop a slate of 3 to 5 audiovisual works (fiction, animation, creative documentary). This should allow production companies to reduce risks and increase their capacity to attract and retain talents.

The European slate development shall provide support to the development of minimum 3 and maximum 5 works for commercial exploitation intended for cinema release, television broadcasting or commercial exploitation on digital platforms or a multi-platform environment in the following categories: animation, creative documentary or fiction. Applicants may add a short film by emerging talent to their slate (optional).

Expected effects and impacts

  • A stronger position on European and international markets for companies selected under European slate development.
  • Increased quality, feasibility, cross-border potential and market value of European works supported.

Expected results

The aim is to provide funds to audiovisual production companies to develop works with high creative value and cultural diversity and wide cross-border exploitation potential. Companies are encouraged to develop strategies for marketing and distribution from the outset of the development phase thus improving the potential to reach audiences at a European and international level.

Greater cooperation, including co-development, between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand is also pursued as well as strengthening the competitiveness of European audiovisual production companies by consolidating their capacity for investment in the development phase and expanding companies’ activities and their innovation capacity to explore new fields and markets.

Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

EU Member States, Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT)
Albania (Shqipëria), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Georgia (საქართველო), Iceland (Ísland), Liechtenstein, Montenegro (Црна Гора), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Norway (Norge), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Ukraine (Україна)

eligible entities

Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

No

Project Partnership

Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries; affiliated entities are allowed, if needed).

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) 
      • non-EU countries (listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative EuropeProgramme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature - list of participating countries)
  • be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA Strand of the Creative Europe Programme and owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. When a company is publicly listed, the location of the stock exchange will in principle determine its nationality
  • be independent European audiovisual production companies that can demonstrate recent experience in producing internationally distributed works

Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person.

International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.

Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.

EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.

Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).

Independent European audiovisual production companies — An independent company is a company which is not, directly or indirectly, majority controlled by an audiovisual media service provider, either in shareholding or commercial terms. Majority control is considered to occur when more than 25% of the share capital of a production company is held by a single audiovisual media service provider (50% when several audiovisual media service providers have shares or other means of control in the company). An audiovisual production company is a company whose main objective and activity is audiovisual production.

other eligibility criteria

Companies with recent experience in producing internationally distributed works — The applicant must prove it has produced two previous works since 2018, both of which respect the following eligibility conditions:

  • an animation, fiction or creative documentary project (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes, unless it is an immersive animation, fiction or creative documentary project (e.g. Virtual Reality), in which case there is no minimum duration.
  • it has been actually released in cinemas (or similar for location-based immersive projects), broadcast on television or made available on digital platforms in at least three countries other than that of the applicant before the day of the deadline for submission of applications.
  • the releases or broadcasts are of a commercial nature. Screenings during festivals are not accepted as a commercial distribution.

In relation to the previous works, the applicant must also be able to prove:

  • that it was the sole production company; or
  • that it was, in the case of a co-production with another production company, the major co-producer in the financing plan or credited as delegate producer; or
  • that its Chief Executive or one of its shareholders has a personal onscreen
    credit on the work as producer or delegate producer.

Please consult pages 11-13 of the call document for more details on the eligible activities.

Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

Project budget (maximum grant amount): between EUR 90 000 and EUR 510 000 per project. The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

The grant will be a lump sum grant. This means that it will reimburse a fixed amount, based on a lump sum or financing not linked to costs.

The amount is prefixed by the granting authority at:

  • Animation one-off: EUR 55 000
  • Animation series: EUR 60 000
  • Creative documentary one-off: EUR 30 000
  • Creative documentary series: EUR 35 000
  • Fiction one-off with a production budget below or equal to 5M: EUR 45 000
  • Fiction one-off with a production budget above 5M: EUR 60 000
  • Fiction series with a production budget below or equal to 5M: EUR 55 000
  • Fiction series with a production budget above 5M but below or equal to 20M: EUR 75 000
  • Fiction series with a production budget above 20M: EUR 100 000
  • Short film: EUR 10 000.

Additional information

Topics

Education & Training, Children & Youth, Media

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

36 months

Additional Information

All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funders & Tenders Portal electronic submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Proposals must be complete and contain all parts and mandatory annexes and supporting documents:

  • Part A (to be filled in directly online) contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator and beneficiaries and affiliated entities), the summarised budget for the proposal
  • Part B (to be downloaded from the Portal submission system, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded as a PDF in the system) contains the technical description of the project.
  • Part C (to be filled in directly online) containing additional project data
  • Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates available to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):
    • lump sum calculator (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
    • PDF with information about film(s)/work(s) to be generated from the Creative Europe MEDIA Database
    • creative dossier of the projects submitted for funding (PDF based on mandatory template available in the Submission System)
    • right contracts / proof of ownership of rights (and in case of adaptation, rights of adaptation) for all the projects submitted for funding
    • supporting documents of co-production, distribution and financing (co-production contracts, deal memos, signed letters of commitment and letters of intent related to the distribution and financing strategy) for all the projects submitted for funding if available
    • Declaration on honour on independence and European ownership (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
    • Declaration on language of the submitted materials (mandatory template available in the Submission System).

Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.

Call documents

CREA-MEDIA-2025-CALL DEVSLATECREA-MEDIA-2025-CALL DEVSLATE(859kB)

Contact

European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Website

Creative Europe Desk Austria - Media
+43 1 526 97 30-406
info@mediadeskaustria.eu
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