the arts and creative industries
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EWROP GREADIGOL
CREATIVE EUROPE
Catrin Cooke
Swyddfa Ewrop Greadigol yn y DU - Cymru
Creative Europe Desk UK - Wales
www.creativeeuropeuk.eu@CEDUK_Culture #creativeeurope
The European Union’s support programme
for the audiovisual, creative and cultural
sectors with a Europe-wide budget of €1.46
billion from 2014-2020
WHAT IS CREATIVE EUROPE?
Brings together three previous programmes:
Now two sub-programmes:
- Culture
Supporting arts, cultural, creative and heritage
initiatives, and literary translation
- MEDIA
Supporting the audiovisual sector including TV, film,
video games
CREATIVE EUROPE
CREATIVE EUROPE
2014 – 2020Budget: €1.46 billion
€823 million56.3%
€455 million31.1%
€184 million12.6%
MEDIA Culture Cross Sector
9% increase on previous funding
levels
AIMS OF CREATIVE EUROPE
• Strengthen the sectors’ capacity to operate transnationally
• Promote the transnational circulation of works and people
• Reach new audiences in Europe and beyond
• Encourage innovation (artistic, business models, spill-over effect)
• Strengthen policy making
CREATIVE EUROPE’S PRIORITIES
• Capacity building
• Skills: emphasis on digital technologies,
audience development and new business
models
• Enabling international cooperation and
internationalising careers
• Strengthening organisations and international
networking to access more professional
opportunities
WHAT IS CREATIVE EUROPE DESK UK?
• 10 staff based in 5 cities in each nation of the UK
• Specialists in both MEDIA and Culture sub-programmes
• Led by British Council and British Film Institute
• In partnership with Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Welsh Government and Arts Council of Northern Ireland
• With support from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the European Commission
• Aim to increase Creative
Europe funding which comes
to the UK
• Promote Creative Europe at
free events nationwide
• Free support and advice for
UK applicants via email,
phone, Skype, workshops,
one-to-one sessions and a
new website coming soon
CREATIVE EUROPE DESK UK:
WHAT DO WE DO?
MEDIA sub-programme
MEDIA SUPPORTS
Audiovisual professionals including….
• producers• distributors• sales agents• training providers• festival organisers• exhibitors• film education specialists• video game developers
Culture sub-programme
CULTURE SUB-PROGRAMME
Four funding
opportunitiesVisual arts
Theatre
Opera
Circus
Literature
Music
Dance
Fashion
Heritage
Design
Architecture
Interdisciplinary
Cooperation
ProjectsLiterary
Translation
Platforms Networks
CO-OPERATION PROJECTS
Supports multilateral European
partnerships and their joint initiatives
Within a project:
• Artistic creation is possible
• Knowledge and skills transfer
• Capacity building
• Answering a common question
Small projects:
Minimum 3 partners in 3 different
countries, up to €200,000
Large projects:
Minimum 6 partners in 6 different
countries, up to €2 million
• Annual deadline in early October
Literature Across Frontiers
• A European platform for literary
exchange, translation and policy
debate
• Funded as a Cooperation
Project in 2008 with 28 partners
• Received €1,384,620 of EU
funding
COOPERATION PROJECT:
WALES LITERATURE EXCHANGE
Schwob
• A network of 7 literature agencies and publishers throughout Europe
• Encourages translation, distribution and publication of of classic European works to wider audiences
• Led by the Dutch Literature Foundation with Wales Literature Exchange as a co-partner
• The project received €200,000
COOPERATION PROJECT:WALES LITERATURE EXCHANGE
COOPERATION PROJECT:
FFOTOGALLERY
• Lead partner for a Cooperation
Project called European
Prospects
• In partnership with organisations
in France, Germany and Lithuania
• Project runs from 2013-2015
• Awarded grant of €200,000
• Project “uses photography and
contemporary lens-based art to
examine questions of identity and
experience in an enlarged
European Union”
• Includes exhibitions, project
website, residencies, catalogue
• Lead partner in a
Cooperation Project, Dance Roads
• In partnership with
organisations in Italy,
Netherlands, Belgium, France
and Canada
• Awarded grant of €163,916
• “Through five strands
(Research, Residency,
Platform, Development, Tour)
[the project] aims to develop
and expand the provision to
the contemporary dance
COOPERATION PROJECT:
COREO CYMRU
LITERARY TRANSLATION
Support for publishers for the translation and
promotion of European literature and translated
works
LITERARY TRANSLATION
Support for publishers for the translation and
promotion of European literature and translated
works
• Translation of a slate of 3-10 fiction works, their
promotion and production
• Can apply for maximum €100,000, 50% of total eligible
costs
• Annual deadlines in early February
OR
‘Framework partnership agreements’
• Slate of 5-10 fiction works per year
• Can apply for maximum €100,000/year, 50% of total
eligible costs
• Next deadline in 2017
European platform to promote new
and emerging talent
‘Presenting European content to
audiences’
• Members of a platform share
programmes and artists
• Co-developing, co-creating
• Cooperate on distribution
• Provide visibility and mobility of new
talent – min 30% of emerging talent
• Minimum 10 members from 10
countries, 5 from EU Member states
• 80% maximum support
• Multi-annual funding
EUROPEAN PLATFORMS
European network to reinforce the members’ capacity
to operate trans-nationally
‘Professionals to professionals’
• Build capacity to work across Europe and adapt to
change
• Foster linguistic and cultural diversity
• Cooperate, share experience, promote good practice
through e.g. conferences, research
• Minimum 15 members from 10 countries, 5 from EU
Member states
• 80% maximum support
• Multi-annual funding
NETWORKS
• Brings together performing arts professionals
for meetings, conferences, training courses,
skills exchanges and site visits
• Represents members’ interests as an
interface between sector and policy makers
• Organises performance
platforms/showcases
• Commissions research
• Over 500 members in 50 countries
IETM
International Network for
Contemporary Performing Arts
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES - CULTURE
Collaborate with organisations in the 28 member states:• Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
EEA Countries
• Iceland, Norway
Other European Countries
• Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Turkey
and…
Programme open to ‘Neighbourhood Countries’
International (non European) partners can participate, for up to 30% of
project budget
Creating a Cooperation Project
1. THE IDEA
• Is it European?
• Is it unique / new / different?
• Is it a matter of presentation?
• What are the results / outcomes / impact / benefits ?
• For whom? Impact on participants? Audiences? On sector?
• What about dissemination ? Format ? Mechanisms ?
• Might it link to broader EU goals and targets ?
2. THE PARTNERSHIP
• Reflect the commitment of the project to being European
• Bring new and different strengths to the project
• Be clear in its structure
• Be clear in the role of each partner
• Why these partners?
• Enable each partner to have a roughly equivalent role(though the lead partner will have more responsibility)
• Demonstrate collective ownership by the partners
• Clearly help achieve the project’s aims and objectives
PARTNERS: WHO? WHERE?
• Networks – over 100 European cultural networks*
• EU programme Contact Points / Offices
• Key networks and organisations in other European countries
• Partner Search Databases*
• Databases of previously successful projects
(e.g. SPPACE*, project database from DG EAC)
• European officers in local authorities
• Brussels offices of regions and cities
• EC organised meetings (Culture Forum, conferences)
*access via www.creativeeuropeuk.eu
3. THE FINANCES
• Match funding principle
• Every partner expected to put in some resources
• EC contributes:
- For Cooperation Projects
Small projects: up to €200,000 - up to 60%
Large projects: up to €2 million - up to 50%
- For Networks and Platforms up to 80%
- For Literary Translation up to 50%
THE FINANCES: MATCH FUNDINGProject income (aside from CE programme funding) to come from funds generated by the project partners – can include:
– Own resources
– Grants
– Generated by the project from ticket sales/box office, sales of publications, registration fees…
– Donations and sponsorship
– Some seconded staff (in moderation) – for ‘project coordination’ and ‘artistic’ costs for example
– Deliverables agreed with other partners/funders
– ‘in-kind’ contributions not eligible – BUT valued
– All costs, also income, MUST have supporting paperwork and be traceable in an accounting system
THE FINANCES: MATCH FUNDING
Making it work for you
• Think about how you can align your activities, programme, schedule with Creative Europe projects
• Build this in to the organisational strategy / development plan
• Your European work isn’t expected to be separate from your core work
• Deadlines for funding opportunities spread across the
year.
• Creative Europe Desk UK offers advice but does
not assess applications.
• Applications are submitted to the Education,
Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency who
managed Creative Europe on behalf of the European
Commission.
• Applications are assessed by experts from the field
that is relevant to the application.
• Experts are selected by the Agency.
APPLICATION PROCESS
THE TIMELINE
• The idea / finding and confirming partners
• Developing project concept, solidifying partnership
• Application with detailed budget and schedule (annual deadlines)
• Outcome and grant payment (50-70%*)
• Kick-off meeting organised by Agency
• Project cycle: maximum 4 years
• Report submission
• Payment of final project grant (30%)
Application
deadline:
7 Oct 2015
Results
by end
Mar 16
Agreements
Apr-May
2016
Start:
May-
Jun
2016
Project
duration:
max 4
years
APPLICATION SUCCESSES
• Success rates for UK-led projects very high – up to 46% in some strands for ‘Culture 2007-13’
• 38 of the 58 Cooperation Projects (Large and Small) selected involved UK-based organisation, making the UK the best networked in this latest batch of results.
• 28 organisations from the UK applied as lead partners for Cooperation Projects (Large and Small)
• Overall success rate for Platforms and Cooperation Projects (Large and Small) of 31% for UK-led applications.
• In 2014 over €5 million awarded to UK cultural and creative organisations to lead collaborative projects with European partners
UK APPLICATION SUCCESSES: SO FAR AND AHEAD
• BUT: usually fewer applications from UK than other large European countries
• UK cultural and creative sector very well prepared to work with Creative Europe:
- UK skills and partners in demand
- Creative Europe priorities not ‘new’ for UK
CROSS-SECTORAL STRAND:GUARANTEE FUND
• Budget of over €120 million for all creative sectors
• Unlock €500 million in bank loans
• Managed by the European Investment Bank (AAA)
• A range of financial products; interim finance, gap finance, tax incentives
• 70% of the risk underwritten
• Launches in 2016
ANY QUESTIONS?
Creative Europe Desk UK is led by
With support from the UK Department for Culture,
Media and Sport and the European Commission
In partnership with
GET IN TOUCH
Catrin Cooke, Culture ManagerSwyddfa Ewrop Greadigol yn y DU - CymruCreative Europe Desk UK – Wales
[email protected] 444206
www.creativeeuropeuk.eu@CEDUK_Culture