Case studies

Be inspired by projects funded by Creative Europe that feature Irish partners! Across the funding strands, you will find compelling stories, innovative projects and creative partnerships.

See all projects funded by Creative Europe on the European Commission’s website.

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The Ghastly Ghoul

Every year, the monsters from Halloween Town come to Earth to trick or treat for one glorious night of mischief before the gateway back to their world closes again. This is the story of Gary, a cute little monster that doesn’t believe he’s scary enough and so he disguises himself as The Ghastly Ghoul.

Culture

Revelland (2022)

Revelland is a collaborative European network aimed at making live music performances more accessible and interesting for people with disabilities, without separating them from the rest of the audience.

Cross Sector

Musika Peripherika

Musika Peripherika: The New Crossroads of Music & Film in the 21st Century is a music artist-centric project offering European bands and artists the opportunity to get rights coaching and be featured in professionally filmed interviews and performance sessions.

Culture

ULYSSES European Odyssey (2021)

ULYSSES European Odyssey is an epic project across 18 cities in 16 countries, producing artistic responses in public spaces to social and cultural themes identified in the 18 episodes of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses.

Culture

phōnē (2021)

phōnē will be the first ever major international collaboration between theatres working for minority languages. It will connect people who belong to a language minority in their countries with European values across language and cultural borders.

Culture

BABEL workshop, Breda, Netherlands; BRIK Festival June 2023; image Hans Gerritsen.

BABEL (2021)

BABEL will investigate the opportunities given by artistic languages to create high-quality shows for children, overcoming the barrier of languages to foster intercultural and intergenerational dialogue in the Performing Arts for Young Audiences.

Culture

The Syncromesh Project (2022)

This project will introduce early career performing arts professionals both to the potential of audio drama and to the creative potential of international collaboration.

Culture

Guro Kleven at SOT kick-off meeting; photo Anna Lardi

Songs of Travel (2022)

Songs of Travel will use music to raise awareness and create empathy towards climate change and migration and will develop and implement a sustainable model of operation for specialised classical music festivals.

Culture

Algo-rhythms (2022)

Algo-Rhythms will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital marketing to develop pilot solutions and empowerment activities that will contribute to increase the mobility of music professionals, artists and their works.

MEDIA

Silly Sundays

SILLY SUNDAYS is set in a colourful coastal village and is an upbeat, charming show about an extended Irish family in a welcoming community. Silly Sundays offers a view of modern Irish diversity both on-screen and throughout the production.

MEDIA

Young Plato

An observational documentary set in post conflict Belfast’s Ardoyne where a marginalised working class community has been plagued by poverty and a portrait of headmaster, Kevin McArevey, and his visionary team who empower primary school children in their school.

MEDIA

The Wee Littles

Magpie 6 Media’s preschool series show follows the adventures of a Wee Little family, living, loving, and sharing in a great big world. The Wee Littles’ stories are about how they handle being very small in a very big world using their own inventive flair. Tx RTEJr 21 November 2022.