Creative Europe 2025 Annual Work Programme out now!

The Creative Europe work programme for 2025 has a budget of almost €340 million. In 2025 Creative Europe will continue supporting the creative and cultural sectors including the audiovisual industry. The programme will build on the achievements of the past four years and continue to integrate green, digital and social inclusion aspects.

Creative Europe will build on its actions by taking into account developments in the cultural and creative industrie as well as feedback from stakeholders. Support for the transition of cultural and creative sectors towards a more environmentally sustainable, inclusive, and digital future is integrated throughout the three strands of the programme.

In 2025, Creative Europe will have a budget of approximately €338 million to implement its actions. The priorities in 2025 are:

• Digital transition: through the existing successful support actions, Creative Europe seeks to harness data and digital tools, including artificial intelligence, in the production and distribution of cultural and audiovisual content.
• Sustainability: In line with the EU Green Deal, the Commission will continue to support measures that can be effectively and efficiently introduced in Creative Europe actions to support a sustainable approach to projects’ design and implementation, while respecting the core aims of the programme.
• Inclusion and gender equality: The topics of inclusion and gender equality remain at the heart of the Creative Europe Programme in 2025. Funded projects must address these issues in their design and implementation phases.
• International relations: Creative Europe will continue to reinforce the EU’s international relations. This includes supporting Ukraine following Russia’s war of aggression against the country. The programme will continue supporting Ukrainian artists and cultural operators and displaced Ukrainian population in accessing culture. As of 2025 Ukraine will fully participate in the MEDIA Strand.

Culture strand

In addition to the existing actions in the Culture strand, the European Commission will publish the following new calls in 2025:

• European Cooperation Projects
• Circulation of European Literary Works
• A call to select three consortia to help Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors organisations, artists and culture professionals tackle the ongoing and future consequences of the war, in cooperation with organisations from other Creative Europe countries
• Day of European Authors: selection of a consortium of organisations to implement multiple editions of the
• Culture Moves Europe: call to select a pillar-assessed organisation or organisations to implement the
• A call to select an organisation (or a consortium of organisations) active in the field of heritage tasked with the implementation of a new EU Prize for Jewish Cultural Heritage.

MEDIA strand

The 2025 Annual Work Programme maintains and renews existing funding actions whilst integrating some adjustments and updates in line with the legal basis. Funding will focus on three areas:

1. Content: high quality content, in particular European co-productions, in films, TV series, documentaries, animation, video games, and immersive content.
2. Business development: including support to film distribution across Europe, strengthening professional skills and talent, developing strategic industry forums and shaping innovative business models.
3. Audiences: Reaching wider audiences across Europe, including through a network of European cinemas, pan-European film distribution strategies, film festivals and audience development.

Cross Sector strand

Support focuses on the following areas:

• A Creative Innovation Lab: for projects addressing several cultural sectors together with audiovisual, to address common challenges such as virtual worlds, intellectual property rights management, data analytics and greening.
• Media freedom and pluralism together with journalism partnerships on best industry practices and democratic accountability.
• The European Board for Media Services will also be funded, in line with the European Media Freedom Act.