Innovative tools and business models
Open
This is the status published by the official source.
Objective:
The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry (including videogames). The support also aims to enable the European audiovisual industry to better adapt to the opportunities offered by the development of Artificial Intelligence and contribute to the implementation of the Apply AI Strategy.
Expected results
• Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual industry (including videogames) and seize the benefits of the innovative developments in technology and business models;
• Improve the adaptation of the European audiovisual industry to the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence;
• Improve the greening process of the European audiovisual industry;
• Improve the production and circulation of European audiovisual works in the digital era;
• increase the number and diversity of European works available online and increase their visibility in order to allow them to reach more audiences. Description of the activities to be funded
The projects can include in particular:
• Subtitling or accessibility/discoverability/recommendation tools to be widely used across borders and across platforms in order to improve the visibility, the availability and the audience potential of European audiovisual works;
• Business tools improving the efficiency and the transparency of the audiovisual markets: automated rights management system, technology for data gathering and analysis;
• Business models seeking to optimise the synergies and complementarities between the distribution platforms (festivals, cinemas, VOD…);
• Business tools exploring new modes of production, financing, distribution or promotion enabled or enhanced by new technology (AI, big data, blockchain, Virtual worlds / Metaverse, NFT, etc.).
• Innovative tools and business models improving the greening process of the audiovisual industry. The action does not cover the development of hardware (e.g. cameras, virtual headsets...).
Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Transparency plays a key role in the action. Therefore, applications should contain plans for the disclosure of the inputs and results of the action, including among others communicating the results to public authorities, Member States and the audiovisual industry.
Special emphasis will also be placed on attracting private investment and on own investment. Project’s ability to apply for a sound and reasonable level of EU public funding below the 80% authorised will be assessed.
- Status
- Open
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Total budget
- €14,000,000
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Creative Europe Programme (CREA)
- Funder
- European Commission
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
What applying involves
10 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.
Understand the call
- Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
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Write the proposal against the award criteria and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document — conditions §5b
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Check the grant's legal and financial set-up
standard for this programme
described in the call document . Call document and annexes: Call document Application form templates Standard application form (CREA MEDIA) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Information on independence and ownership control (CREA MEDIA) Model Grant Agreements (MGA) CREA MGA Additional documents: CREA Annual Work Programmes CREA Regulation 2021/818 EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR … — conditions §6
- Check the amount you plan to request against the call's range
Check you are eligible
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Check every partner is established in an eligible country
standard for this programme
described in the call document — conditions §2
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Meet the call's other eligibility conditions
standard for this programme
described in the call document — conditions §3
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Be able to show financial and operational capacity
standard for this programme
described in the call document — conditions §4
Prepare the documents
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Prepare Part B of the Application Form
standard for this programme
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. — conditions
Submit
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Check the submission and evaluation process
standard for this programme
described in the call document — conditions §5a
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Submit before the closing date shown above
The source states the closing day but no closing time — check the portal before the last day. — calls.deadline
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- TV and online content Documentary projects
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- TV and online content Animation projects
- European video games and immersive content
All calls under this programme
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Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/crea-media-2027-innovbusmod.json
- Document fingerprint
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