European Programme Creative Europe

Single Projects and Slate Funding

The call for proposals EAC/S30/2013 “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” has been published by the European Commission in the framework of the Media Sub-Programme of the European Programme Creative Europe.

The current EAC/S30/2013 “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” call for proposals is based on the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020). Within the field of reinforcing the audiovisual sector's capacity, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme will be to increase the capacity of audiovisual operators to develop European audiovisual works with a potential to circulate in the Union and beyond and to facilitate European and international co-production, including with television broadcasters.

 

More specifically, the objective of the current EAC/S30/2013 “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” call for proposals is to provide support for

• the development of European audiovisual works in particular films and television works such as fiction, documentaries, children’s and animated films, as well as interactive works such as videogames and multimedia with enhanced cross-border circulation potential;
• activities aiming at supporting European audiovisual production companies, in particular independent production companies, with a view to facilitating European and international co-productions of audiovisual works including television works.

 

Applicants to the current EAC/S30/2013 “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” call for proposals must be European entities (private companies, non-profit organisations, associations, charities, foundations, municipalities/Town Councils, etc.), established in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme, and owned directly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries.

 

Applications from legal entities established in one of the following countries are eligible as long as all conditions referred to in Article 8 of the Regulation establishing the Creative Europe Programme are met and the Commission has entered into negotiations with the country:

- EU Member States;

- acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates benefiting from a pre-accession strategy, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those  countries in Union programmes established in the respective Framework Agreements, Association Council Decisions or similar agreements;

- EFTA countries which are members of the EEA, in accordance with the provisions of the EEA Agreement;

- the Swiss Confederation, on the basis of a bilateral agreement to be concluded with that country;

- countries of the European neighbourhood area in accordance with the procedures defined with those countries following the framework agreements providing for their participation in European Union programmes.

 

The eligible activities to be carried out in the framework of the current EAC/S30/2013 “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” call for proposals are:

- feature films, animations and creative documentaries of a minimum length of 60 minutes intended primarily for cinema release

- drama films (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 90 minutes, animation (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes and creative documentaries (one-off or series) of a duration of minimum 50 minutes (in case of series the minimum length per episode is 25 minutes) intended primarily for the purposes of television or digital platform exploitation.

 

The total budget available for the co-financing of actions under the current EAC/S30/2013 “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” call for proposals is estimated at 17.5M €. The financial contribution awarded is a subsidy. The maximum financial contribution which may be awarded for Single Project is a lump sum of :

- EUR 60.000 in case of animation

- EUR 25.000 in case of creative documentary

- EUR 50.000 in case of fiction if the estimated production budget is equal/above EUR 1.5 M

- EUR 30.000 in case of fiction if the estimated production budget is below EUR 1.5 M

The maximum financial contribution which may be awarded for Slate Funding is between € 70 000 and € 200 000.

 

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the current “Support for the Development of Single Projects and Slate Funding” call for proposals is 28/02/2014 and 06/06/2014 for Single Project and no later than 28/03/14 for Slate Funding.

 

Further information on the current call for proposals is available on the European Commission’s web site at: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/fundings/creative-europe/call_7_en.htm.