European Festivals
CREA Lump Sum Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CREA-MEDIA-2025-FEST
- Programme
- European Festivals
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- December 5, 2024
- Deadline
- March 11, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €10,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CREA-MEDIA-2025-FESTCREA-MEDIA-2025-FESTFestivalsFilm Festivals
Description
Objective
Support shall be provided to European audiovisual festivals aiming at increasing audiences' interest in non national European audiovisual content and promoting its circulation and visibility.
Expected results
- Support festivals screening a significant proportion of non-national European films and audiovisual works;
- Increase the impact of European audio-visual festivals aiming to reinforce promotion, distribution and circulation of non-national European films and audiovisual works to growing audiences across Europe;
- Develop innovative actions especially in the areas of audience outreach and online activities.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
described in the call document.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described in the call document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document.
Publication of the call: December 3, 2024.
Deadline for submitting applications: March 11, 2025 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: March - August, 2025.
Information to applicants: September 2025.
Signature of grant agreement: December 2025.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (CREA MEDIA) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Calculator (CREA MEDIA LS FEST)
Information on non-national programming (CREA MEDIA FEST)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Frequently Asked Questions About European Festivals
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact [email protected]
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
Evaluation Results
Published: 03 December 2024
Deadline: 11 March 2025
Available budget: EUR 10M
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
-Number of proposals submitted: 166
-Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
-Number of ineligible proposals: 1
-Number of withdrawn proposal(s): 0
-Number of above-threshold proposals: 121
-Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 12.424.000 €
We informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals on 08/07/2025.
For questions, please contact: [email protected]
Call CREA-MEDIA-2025-FEST closed on 11/03/2025 at 17:00:00 CEST (Brussels).
166 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated by September, 2025.
Important news item: There will be an information session on the new call European Festivals 2025 at the Berlinale.
Date: Monday, 17/02/2025.
Time: 09:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
Venue: Gropius Bau at Gropius 'Pavilion'.
Address: Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Berlin.
Access: No accreditation needed (everybody is welcome).
Find more information on the EACEA page.