Creative Europe in 2025: focus on green and digital transitions, on strengthening social and economic resilience

Priorities in 2025

Support the 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
• a call to select a consortium of organisations to implement multiple editions of the Day of European Authors
• a call to select a pillar-assessed organisation or organisations to implement the Culture Moves Europe action
• 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:

Content

High quality content, in particular European co-productions, in films, TV series, documentaries, animation, video games and immersive content.

Business development

Business development, including support to film distribution across Europe, strengthening professional skills and talent, developing strategic industry fora and shaping innovative business models.

Audiences

Reaching wider audiences across Europe, including through a network of European cinemas, pan-European film distribution strategies, film festivals and audience development.

Cross-sectoral 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.

Find information about funding opportunities

Potential applicants should regularly visit

• the European Education and Culture Executive Agency’s website
• the CulturEU Funding Guide
• Creatives Unite on funding opportunities

to get more information on EU funding opportunities.