WHAT IS THE CROSS-SECTORAL STRAND?
The Cross-Sectoral strand aims to strengthen cooperation between different cultural and creative sectors, helping them to address common challenges and to develop innovative solutions. Support is provided through policy cooperation, Creative Innovation Labs and the services offered by the Creative Europe Desks. For the first time in this second programming cycle of Creative Europe, opportunities have been introduced for funding the news media sector with the objective of promoting media literacy, pluralism and freedom of the press, as well as activities supporting the sector’s adaptation to the structural and technological changes it is facing.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Cross-Sectoral strand provides financial support for:
News Media
The Cross-Sectoral strand provides funding for the news media sector with the aim of fostering media literacy, pluralism, and media freedom, as well as activities helping the sector to adapt to the structural and technological changes it is undergoing.
More information can be found here.
Creative Innovation Labs
The activities of the Creative Innovation Labs encourage innovative approaches to content creation, distribution and promotion within the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), as well as in other sectors, taking into account the digital transformation. The purpose of these labs is to:
- stimulate stakeholders from different CCS to design and test innovative digital solutions with a lasting positive impact;
- enable the development of innovative, market-oriented tools, models and methods for the audiovisual sector and at least one additional creative or cultural sector.
More information can be found here.
Creative Europe Desks
Creative Europe Desks form a network established by the European Commission to promote EU initiatives and to facilitate access to the Creative Europe programme. This network brings together national information offices from more than 40 Creative Europe countries. In general, the role of the Desks is to provide services such as:
- free information and guidance on how to access funding opportunities under Creative Europe;
- regular updates and news on topics related to the audiovisual, cultural, and creative sectors at national, regional, and European level;
- networking support, including facilitating contacts between organisations from different countries and providing opportunities to find partners;
- supporting the European Commission in ensuring effective communication and dissemination of the programme’s results and impact.
More information about the Creative Europe Desks can be found here.