New Creative Europe Program to Provide More Support to Cultural & Creative Sectors
The new year comes with a brand new Creative Europe program, providing more support and funding than ever before to cultural and creative sectors, linguistic diversity, heritage, audiovisual, and more.
With a dedicated budget of more than €2.4 billion, made up of €1.8 billion in current prices, and an additional top-up of €0.6 billion in 2018 prices, the new program will continue to promote cultural and linguistic diversity, heritage and competitiveness, and will allow cultural and creative organizations and professionals to co-create and cooperate across borders and to reach wider audiences, tackling current societal questions and supporting emerging artists. The MEDIA strand will keep supporting projects with a European dimension and an international one; as well as nurturing talent and supporting the use of new technologies to strengthen the competitiveness of the sector.
For the first time, the news media sector will be supported through different actions promoting media literacy, pluralism and media freedom under the cross-sectoral strand.
Implementation of the new program is planned for early 2021. The new program will run until 2027.