The objective of the European slate development support is to foster the competitiveness of European independent production companies and to increase their economic weight on the market. The aim is also to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop projects with potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-production.

The objective of the Innovative tools and business models action is to strengthen the competitiveness, scalability and sustainability of the European players, as well as to improve the visibility and availability of European works and increase audiences in the digital environment.

The aim is to support projects focusing on the specific challenges of the audiovisual sector such as discoverability, sequencing of release windows, financing and territoriality in order to enable strong and visible offers of European works online and across borders to a wide public.

The objective of the support to TV and online content is to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector.

A Solidarity Project is a non-profit solidarity activity initiated, developed and implemented by young people themselves for a period from 2 to 12 months. A project involves a group of minimum of five young people to focus on a clearly identified topic which they will explore through daily activities that involve all the members of the group. Solidarity Projects address key challenges within the communities, where relevant including those identified jointly in the border regions and it should also provide clear European added value.

Projects promote rights, non-discrimination, equality, including gender equality, and advance gender and non-discrimination mainstreaming. Projects can be either national or transnational.

Projects also prevent and combat inequalities and discrimination on grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.

This strand builds the capacity of independent civil society organisations active in the promotion of values and rights, whose activities help the strategic enforcement of rights under EU law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Activities build advocacy and watchdog activities, as well as to promote, safeguard and raise awareness of the Union’s values at local, regional, national and transnational level.

Projects need to promote citizens’ engagement and participation in the democratic life of the EU.

They involve exchanges between citizens of different Member States and will raise awareness of common European history.

Activities also promote cultural diversity and the knowledge of shared history. They can involve debates, campaigns, awareness-rising, developing media literacy, conferences, workshops and will gather the opinions of individuals through the use of social networks, webinars and other channels.

The overall objective is to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on youth, mainly through capacity building and specific measures supporting the recovery of the youth sector, as well as fostering solidarity and inclusiveness.

These projects create networks promoting regional partnerships, enabling young people across Europe to set up joint projects, organise exchanges and promote training (e.g. for youth leaders) through both physical and online activities.

The Alliances strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by boosting innovation through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training (both initial and continuous), and more broadly involving a socio-economic context, including research.

Programme guide available here.