Creative Innovation Lab
Creative Innovation Lab · CREA-PJG
What this call funds
This Creative Europe call funds projects that bring the audiovisual sector together with music, books or museum sectors to create innovative tools, models or business solutions. It supports things like using AI, big data, blockchain or virtual worlds to improve rights management, audience data, distribution and discoverability of European content, as well as helping these sectors become greener. The goal is more competitive, visible and sustainable European cultural content reaching wider audiences.
creative cultural · media journalism · artificial intelligence · blockchain web3 · extended reality · sme scaleup
Who wins this
This call best suits a consortium of audiovisual organisations, tech companies, startups or creative businesses from different countries that want to build cross sectoral innovative tools combining audiovisual with music, books or museums.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- CREA-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- CREA Project Grants
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Eligible applicants
- private entity, public entity, tech company, startup, audiovisual organisation, cultural organisation, creative organisation, business incubator, business accelerator
- Funding rate
- up to 80% (below 80% encouraged)
- Support to third parties
- Financial support to third parties is allowed for grants, but no maximum per third party is stated.
- Also required
- Project must cover the audiovisual sector plus at least one of music, books or museums, with cross sectoral cooperation central to the project; certain activities such as content production costs, e-learning platforms and promotional works are ineligible.
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
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 eligibility 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: October, 20 2026. Deadline for submitting applications: April, 22 2027 17:00 (Brussels time). Evaluation period: May-September 2027. Information to applicants: October 2027. Signature of grant agreement: January 2028. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in the call document. Call document and annexes: Call document