European Co-Development

• Increased collaboration at development stage between European production companies from different countries and from different markets and consequently an increased number of co-productions.
• Increased quality, feasibility, cross-border potential and market value of selected projects.
• A stronger position on European and international markets for companies selected under European co-development.
• Increased international cooperation, including collaborations between European and Korean professionals, in line with the audiovisual entitlement appended to the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation between the EU and Korea.
• These points are guidelines only - please read the European Co-development Funding call 2026 document for full details.

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  − be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  − be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  − Creative Europe Participating Countries:
  − EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories
  (OCTs))
  − non-EU countries:
  − listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative
  Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
• Be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and be owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. When a company is publicly listed, the location of the stock exchange will in principle determine its nationality
• Be independent European audiovisual production companies.
• Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
  • an eligible coordinator and at least one eligible partner (i.e. not an affiliated entity of the coordinator), established in at least two different European
    countries participating in the MEDIA Strand.
  • the coordinator and the partner(s) must have signed a co-development agreement that needs to be submitted with the application.
• Supported projects can also have associated partners from countries not participating in the MEDIA Strand, though these cannot be beneficiaries. To foster wider international cooperation and market access, these partners can come from nonEuropean countries: a case in point is Korea pursuant to the audiovisual entitlement appended to the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation between the EU and Korea.
• The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please read the European Co-development 2027 call document to check eligibility and requirements.

Only the co-development activities for the following works are eligible:

• Feature films, animations and creative documentaries of a minimum length of 60 minutes intended primarily for cinematic release.
• Fiction projects (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 total duration of minimum 50 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of television or digital platform exploitation.
• Interactive, immersive fiction, animation or creative documentary projects (e.g. narrative virtual reality projects) of any duration.
• Works which are designed to be a series with a joint distribution and marketing strategy have to be submitted as a series.
• The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please read the European Co-development 2027 call document to check eligibility and requirements.

• Project budget (requested grant amount): the maximum EU grant depends on the number of eligible beneficiaries (i.e. coordinator and partner(s), not their affiliated entities) that are part of the consortium.
• If the application is submitted by a consortium of two eligible beneficiaries, the maximum EU grant is €120,000. For each additional eligible beneficiary, the maximum EU grant increases with €60,000.
• However, for the co-development of drama series with an intended production budget of EUR 20 000 000 and above, the maximum EU grant for a consortium of two eligible beneficiaries is €200,000, whilst it increases with €100,000 per additional eligible beneficiary.
• The grant will be a lump sum grant. This means that it will reimburse a fixed amount, based on a lump sum or financing not linked to costs. The amount will be fixed by the granting authority on the basis of the estimated project budget and a funding rate of 70%.
• The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please read the European Co-development 2027 call document to check eligibility and requirements.