MEDIA
TV & Online Content
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Second deadline: 15 September 2027. Both deadlines close at 4:00pm Irish time.
TV and Online Content funding aims to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate internationally and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector.
This funding aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA strand. It promotes high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment.
Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies. Supported projects can also have associated partners from countries not participating in the MEDIA Strand, though these cannot be beneficiaries.
These partners can come from non-European countries to foster wider international cooperation and market access. A case in point is Korea pursuant to the audiovisual entitlement appended to the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation between the EU and Korea.
The call covers the following topics. Each project application under the call must address only one of these topics.Applicants wishing to apply for more than one topic, must submit a separate proposalunder each topic.
- CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE-1: TV and Online Content Animation projects
- CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE-2: TV and Online Content Documentary
projects - CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE-3: TV and Online Content Fiction projects
The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please download the TV & Online Content 2027 call document to check eligibility, requirements and funding.
- Call Number
- CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE
- Publish Date
- Sub-Programme
- MEDIA
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- Increased production of high quality European works for linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms, as well as an increase in the number of co-productions.
- Enhanced cooperation between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including between broadcasters.
- Increased audience for European works through linear and non-linear broadcasting including on digital platforms.
- 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.
- 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 and owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. When an entity is publicly listed, if the nationality of the physical persons owning it cannot be established as per the terms above, the location of the stock exchange in a country participating fully in the MEDIA strand will determine its eligibility.
- Be independent European audiovisual production companies.
- Independent European audiovisual production companies — An independent company is a company which is not, directly or indirectly, majority controlled by an audiovisual media service provider, either in shareholding or commercial terms. Majority control is considered to occur when more than 25% of the share capital of a production company is held by a single audiovisual media service provider (50% when several audiovisual media service providers have shares or other means of control in the company).
- An audiovisual production company is a company whose main objective and activity is audiovisual production.
- The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Pleasedownload the TV & Online Content 2027 call document to check eligibility, requirements and funding.
- The TV and online content action supports works [animation (topic 1), documentary (topic 2) and drama films (topic 3)] intended for linear and non-linear broadcasting, presenting:
- strong cooperation between operators from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, including between broadcasters;
- high creative/artistic value and wide cross-border exploitation potential able to reach audiences at European and international level;
- innovative aspects in terms of the content and the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
- Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry (in particular through the use of greening consultants allowing to reduce the environmental impact of productions and shootings) and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
- The following projects are ineligible: live recordings, TV games, talk shows, cooking shows, magazines, tv-shows, reality shows, educational, teaching and “how to” programmes; documentaries promoting tourism, “making-of”, reports, animal reportages, news programmes and “docu-soaps”; projects including pornographic or racist material or advocating violence; works of a promotional nature; institutional productions to promote a specific organisation or its activities; music videos and video-clips; projects already financed by Eurimages; productions originally intended as cinema works (e.g. several theatrical distributors and/or an international sales agent involved).
- The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please download the TV & Online Content 2027 call document to check eligibility, requirements and funding.
- Project budget (requested grant amount): between €70,000 and €2,000,000 per project.
- 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 information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please download the TV & Online Content 2027 call document to check eligibility, requirements and all funding details.
- The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please download the TV & Online Content 2027 call document to check eligibility, requirements and funding.
- Applications for this call will be processed through the European Commission's Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal (F&TP).
- See detailed information on how to access the F&T Portal.
- Find further information on how to apply for Creative Europe funding.
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