European Programme Creative Europe

Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works

The European Call for EAC/S24/2013 “Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works” has been published by the European Commission in the framework of the Media Sub-Programme.

The current “Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works” 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 is 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/S24/2013 “Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works” 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/S24/2013 “Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works” call for proposals must be independent audiovisual production companies that are the majority producer of the work.

 

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 Counci 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 total budget available for the co-financing of actions under the current EAC/S24/2013 “Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works” call for proposals is estimated at 11.8 M €. For drama and animation works the financial contribution awarded may not exceed EUR 500.000 or 12.50% of the total eligible costs, whichever is the lower. Only for co-produced TV drama series with an eligible production budget of at least EUR 10.000.000 (consisting of at least 6 episodes each of a minimum length of 45 minutes) an amount of maximum EUR 1.000.000 can be requested. For creative documentary, the financial contribution awarded may not exceed EUR 300.000 or 20% of the total eligible costs whichever is the lower.

 

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the current EAC/S24/2013 “Support for Television Programming of Audiovisual European Works” call for proposals is 28/02/2014 at 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time).

 

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_8_en.htm