European Programme Creative Europe

Support for Training

The call for proposals EAC/S23/2013 “Support for Training” has been published by the European Commission in the framework of the Creative Europe Programme (Media Sub-Programme).

The current EAC/S23/2013 “Support for Training” 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 facilitate the acquisition and improvement of skills and competences of audiovisual professionals and the development of networks including the use of digital technologies to ensure the adaptation to market development, testing new approaches to audience development and testing of new business models.

 

More specifically, the objective of the current EAC/S23/2013 “Support for Training” call for proposals is to promote the development of a comprehensive range of training measures promoting the acquisition and improvement of skills and competences by audiovisual professionals, knowledge sharing and networking initiatives, including the integration of digital technologies

 

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.

 

Eligible applications in the framework of the current EAC/S23/2013 “Support for Training” call for proposals must be for actions which are aimed at developing the capacity of audiovisual professionals to understand and integrate a European and international dimension in their work by improving expertise in the following fields:

  • audience development, and development, marketing, distribution and exploitation;
  • financial and commercial management in particular with a view to stimulate access to finance;
  • works development and production;
  • opportunities and challenges of the digital shift.

 

Applicants shall be applying for one of the two following categories of supported actions depending on the scale, needs, objectives and international / European dimension:

  • European actions: actions aimed at the acquisition and improvement of skills and competences for professionals to operate mainly in Europe
  • International actions: actions aimed at building expertise, knowledge and capacities for European professionals to peer, network and collaborate with non-European professionals to enable access to international professional networks

 

The total budget available for the co-financing of actions under the current EAC/S23/2013 “Support for Training” call for proposals is estimated at EUR 7.5M. The financial grant of the Union cannot exceed:

  • European actions: 60% of the total eligible costs of the action
  • International actions: 80% of the total eligible costs of the action

 

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the current EAC/S23/2013 “Support for Training” call for proposals is 23/05/2014.

 

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