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EU FUNDING
FOR CULTURE
2021-2027
AN INTRODUCTION INTO 13 EU
PROGRAMMES AND THEIR FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CULTURAL AND
CREATIVE SECTOR
PUBLISHED BY THE CREATIVE EUROPE DESK KULTUR (DE)
funding instruments is open for
CONTENT
cultural and creative projects and
1. INTRODUCTION complements the support that is
2. CREATIVE EUROPE provided by Creative Europe, the
3. AMF EU’s main programme addressing
4. CERV the cultural, creative and audio-
5. DIGITAL EUROPE visual sector across Europe.
6. ERASMUS+
Against this backdrop, this
7. EAFRD
publication intends to provide a first
8. ERDF
glance on the new generation of EU
9. ESF+
funding programmes 2021-2027 that
10. ESC
are accessible for the cultural and
11. HORIZON EUROPE
creative sector. Apart from Creative
12. INTERREG
Europe, insights into 13 programmes
13. INVESTEU
14. NDICI are presented on the following pages.
The publication is a result of the
INTRODUCTION “Infodesk Corona”, a project
implemented by the German Creative
Culture is considered an important Europe Desk KULTUR and
pillar of the EU as it significantly supported by the German Minister of
contributes to social cohesion, State for Culture and the Media in the
building a common sense of light of the German EU Council
belonging and promoting shared Presidency. The “Infodesk Corona”
values and cultural diversity. For aims at providing insights into
that reason, the Treaty of the current and future EU support
Functioning of the EU defines measures for the cultural and creative
culture as a cross-cutting area that sector.
builds bridges and synergies to
other policy areas. As a result, a
wide range of European
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 1
The Creative Europe Desk Due to the current pandemic, the
KULTUR is the national contact next MFF is supplemented by Next
point in charge of promoting Generation EU (NGEU), an
Creative Europe Culture, the only additional budget for Europe’s
EU funding programme explicitly recovery from this crisis. After
dedicated to the cultural and successfully negotiating with the
creative sector. It helps German European Parliament, the Council
cultural and creative organisations has finally adopted the new long-
to find suitable funding for their term budget on December 17, 2020.
projects and to prepare their Accordingly, the MFF comprises
1074.3 billion euro, while the
applications.
NGEU provides further 750 billion
euro, resulting in an overall EU
household of 1.8 trillion euro for the
THE CURRENT upcoming seven years. Being
NEGOTIATIONS OF THE divided in seven different areas, the
EU BUDGET budgetary plan sets the conditions
and framework for the political and
economic priorities and activities
Due to the spread of Covid-19, the
including the design of the almost
Brexit and further political and
40 funding instruments.
societal transformations across
Europe and the world, 2020 has
been an extremely challenging year.
Moreover, it represents the end of MULTIANNUAL FINANCIAL
the current EU household 2014- FRAMEWORK
2020, the so-called Multiannual
Financial Framework (MFF) that
NEXT GENERATION EU
covers a period of seven years.
Consequently, the EU institutions
have been discussing the future
budget determining the financial EU HOUSEHOLD 2021-2027
regulations for 2021-2027.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 2EU SUPPORT MEASURES implemented relatively quickly, e.g.
SURE, others are still under
IN TIMES OF COVID-19
negotiations. However, in both cases,
the measures are usually foreseen to
It is evident that the ongoing
supplement national policies. As a
pandemic has tremendous effects on
result, it mostly depends on the
the European economy and society.
individual Member States to decide
Thus, the EU and its Members States
how to define the areas benefitting
have been forced to quickly react to
from this additional support.
the frequently evolving challenges
deriving from the spread of Covid-
With view to the cultural and creative
19. To begin with, the EU has
sector which has apparently been
demonstrated great flexibility in
heavily affected by the pandemic,
terms of current funding which
this means that it is up to the national
guaranteed that most of the running
recovery plans and strategies to
projects could adapt to the new
incorporate additional financial
circumstances without losing their
assistance directed towards cultural
financial support. Additionally, the
organisations and professionals.
EU has introduced several support
instruments for assisting the Member
However, the European Parliament is
States to respond to and recover
calling for a 2% earmark for culture
from the severe consequences of the
within the Recovery and Resilience
virus, amongst others the Recovery
Facility (part of NGEU). At the time
and Resilience Facility, ReactEU,
of the publication a decision was not
RescEU and SURE. While some of
yet made. Furthermore, looking
these instruments have been
ahead to the new funding period
starting from 2021, the EU has
REACTEU
ensured that the new generation of
programmes offers support for
COVID navigating through and regenerating
SURE
RECOVERY from the current crisis.
RESCEU RESILIENCE
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 3WHAT'S HAPPENING
NEXT?
2018
The final adoption of the MFF paves
the way for negotiating and adopting EUORPEAN COMMISSION
PUBLISHED PROPOSALS
the wide range of programmes that
FOR EU PROGRAMMES
shape the EU’s funding landscape.
While the European institutions have NOVEMBER 2020
already reached provisional
agreements regarding a number of EUROPEAN COUNCIL AND
EP AGGREE ON NEW MFF
instruments in December 2020, their
final conclusion is necessary for the
programmes to be able to start at the 2020/2021
beginning of 2021. Once this is
done, the guidelines and work EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS
HAVE TO AGREE ON EU
programmes relevant for each fund
PROGRAMMES
will be published and provide
concrete information on the
2021
priorities, procedures and calls.
Depending on each programme, this
OFFICIAL START OF NEW
is most likely to be expected in the EU PROGRAMMES
first half of 2021.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 4REMARKS FOR READING THIS PUBLICATION
The information provided in this publication only represents the current state
of play and provisional architecture of the programmes according to the latest
updates from December 17, 2020. These insights are mostly based on the
proposals of regulations published by the European Commission for each
programme in 2018 as well as additional material made available by the EU
institutions [1]. As they are gradually negotiating and adopting the new
programmes starting from 2021 onwards, this is only a preliminary overview
of programmes to get a first idea about their design and future opportunities,
with main emphasis on the cultural and creative sector. For that reason,
detailed funding possibilities, participating countries and further criteria are yet
to be known.
The budgets are indicated in fixed prices from 2018.
[1] This publication relies on the information provided on the websites indicated for each funding
programme as well as the official documents published by the European institutions on EUR-Lex.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 5CREATIVE EUROPE
budget 2.24 bn €
target group cultural and creative sector
to support culturan diversity and cultural heritage in
objectives Europe and to increase the competitiveness of the CCS
Creative Europe is the only EU The Culture sub-programme is open to
programme specifically dedicated to all cultural and creative sectors, from
the cultural, creative and audio- performing and visual arts to music
visual sectors. It promotes the and the creative industries. It provides
European cooperation between financial support to projects with a
cultural organisations and the European dimension aiming to share
protection of the common European cultural content across borders. The
cultural heritage and the cultural four main funding schemes as known
diversity in Europe. Furthermore, it from the previous programme will be
aims at increasing the continued:
competitiveness of the cultural and
creative sectors, in particular the Cooperation projects: Support to
audio-visual sector. The new cooperation between at least three
Creative Europe programme different organisations from the
receives 2.24 billion euro which is different eligible countries
an increase of 800 million euro in Networks: Support to networks
comparison with the previous which represent a cultural sector
funding period. It continues to be and which help building capacity
divided into three sub-programmes: in their field
Culture
MEDIA
Cross-sectoral strand
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 6Platforms: Support to platforms production of European audio-
which facilitate the access to the visual works. MEDIA will support
European market for emerging the development of audio-visual
talents works, production of innovative TV
Literary Translation: Support to content and serial storytelling, the
publishers and publishing houses distribution of these works through
for the translation of European various means (festivals, fairs, VoD
literature etc.). Throughout all measures, it
will specifically strive for more
In addition to these schemes, support
gender equality within the sector.
for the mobility of individual artists
is foreseen. The sector specific
The cross-sectoral strand will
funding for music will be introduced
support cross-sectorial approaches
within the next seven years, building
combining innovative ideas from
on the experiences of Music Moves
both the cultural and audio-visual
Europe. Additional support to the
sectors. In addition, the strand will
following sectors was announced:
fund projects to support a free,
architecture and cultural heritage,
diverse, and pluralistic media
design and fashion, cultural tourism.
environment, quality journalism and
media literacy.
The MEDIA sub-programme
supports the EU film and audio- More information here.
visual industries. It aims at
stimulating collaboration, and
innovation in the creation and
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 7ASYLUM AND MIGRATION FUND
(AMF)
budget 8.705 bn €
local and regional authorities, civil society
target group organisations
to support early integration measures of asylum seekers
objectives and migrants
The Asylum and Migration Fund is Supporting legal migration to the
the EU’s support in the field of MS and contributing to the
asylum, integration and migration. integration of third-country
Previously, it was called AMIF and nationals
was established in response to the Reducing irregular migration and
high migratory movements to improving the effectiveness of
Europe since 2015. The new return and re-admission in third
programme mainly focuses on countries
early integration measures, while
A large part of this funding is
other aspects are also addressed by
managed by the individual Member
programmes such as the European
States in accordance with their
Social Fund+ or Erasmus+. Yet, the
specific needs and national
overall objectives of the fund are:
integration programmes, but a
Developing and fostering the smaller part of the programme is
also administered by the European
Common European Asylum
Commission, thereby facilitating
System
transnational projects. As a result,
the relevant priorities can differ
from country to country and the
given context.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 8WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
In this context, cultural and creative
stakeholders can mainly contribute
to the second priority with emphasis
on integration measures. For that
purpose, intercultural and inter-
religious dialogue plays a crucial
role as well as the general exchange
and dialogue between migrants and
the local society. Thus, cultural
projects can help foster the
migrants’ active participation and
inclusion in the receiving society
while simultaneously contributing to
the society’s acceptance and
tolerance of its new community
members. Furthermore, the cultural
and creative sector can also help to
develop and create new approaches
for trainings and integration
programmes dealing with education,
language, civic orientation or
professional guidance.
More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 9CITIZENS, EQUALITY, RIGHTS
AND VALUES (CERV)
budget 1.6 bn €
target group local and regional authorities, NGOs
to promote European rights and values and to bring
objectives Europe closer to its citizens
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Equality and rights strand
Values (CERV) is a new programme Citizens' engagement and
merging two previous funding participation strand
instruments: Europe for Citizens and Daphne strand
Rights, Equality and Citizenship. By
means of the new programme, the During the latest budgetary
EU aims at promoting the values it negotiations, the European
is based on – amongst others institutions have agreed on a
equality, freedom and democracy – significant increase for the
in order to oppose the increasing programme resulting in 1.6 billion
extremism, discrimination and euro which equals more than
inequalities it is facing lately. With doubling the foreseen amount of 0.6
the intention of fostering an open, billion euro. This highlights once
inclusive and democratic society, more how pressing and crucial the
the new programme provides reinforcement of the European
funding in the following categories: values when looking at the current
economic, political and social
developments.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 10WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE? and tolerance as well as to building
a common sense of belonging
European citizenship and culture within the EU. In this regard,
are mutually interlinked as they historical, cultural and intercultural
both rely on common history, aspects play an important role; both
cultural diversity, remembrance for remembering Europe’s past and
and shared values. Therefore, there for building its future. In this
is a strong synergy between context, the cultural and creative
Creative Europe and CERV. sector can actively participate in
encouraging citizens to engage with
Activities funded under the each other as well as with the
citizens’ engagement and common history, rights and values.
participation strand are supposed This also builds a bridge to the
to bring the EU closer to its equality and rights strand whose
citizens by improving their emphasis lies on protecting and
understanding of Europe’s history, supporting rights of children,
diversity and cultural heritage. women and people with disabilities
Thus, it facilitates encounters and and fighting intolerance,
exchanges of people from different discrimination and racism. Cultural
countries and cultures as for projects can possibly contribute to
example through transnational achieving these goals, e.g. through
town-twinning projects or raising awareness or developing
collaboration of civil society creative ways of overcoming
organisations. Creating inequalities.
opportunities for citizens to meet
and enter into dialogue about their
ways of living shall contribute to
increasing the mutual respect
More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 11DIGITAL EUROPE
budget 7.588 bn €
target group innovation sector
objectives to support Europe's digitisation
Supporting the digital transformation Thereby, it offers opportunities for
of Europe’s economy and society higher education and research
lies at the heart of Digital Europe. institutions, larger companies and
Thus, this programme aims at SMEs as well as other stakeholders
improving and fostering the digital from the innovation sector.
capacities and to expand and
facilitate the access and use of digital
technologies which is also seen as WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
crucial for the recovery from the
current pandemic. It provides Given that the cultural and creative
financial support in five key areas: sector has proven to be highly
innovative in experimenting with
Supercomputing digital tools, it is also addressed by
Artificial intelligence Digital Europe, mainly under two
Cybersecurity priorities.
Digital skills
Deployment and accessibility of In the context of deployment and
digital technologies accessibility of digital
technologies, financial support
strives at ensuring that the public
sector and areas of public
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 12interest are able to access and use
digital technologies and to adapt to
new digital trends. In this regard,
cultural projects shall provide
creators and creative industries in
Europe with access to the newest
digital technologies possibly
ranging from artificial intelligence
to advanced computing. Moreover,
the digital exploitation of and
access to cultural heritage shall be
facilitated in order to promote
cultural diversity, social cohesion
and European citizenship.
In the light of the area digital
skills, support is offered for
improving digital skills and
fostering professionalization by
designing different methods and
formats of training. Amongst
others, these projects target
students, IT professionals,
entrepreneurs and small business
leaders and related workforce in
these areas, thus also include
opportunities for cultural and
creative professionals to benefit
from developing or participating in
these kind of courses.
More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 13ERASMUS+
budget 23.4 bn €
target group formal and non-formal education
to foster the access and quality of formal and non-formal
objectives education and to facilitate mobility across Europe
Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme for WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
education addressing a wide range of
formal and non-formal educational The strong link between education
fields such as schools, universities, and culture is evident in this
youth work, sports, vocational and programme which is also supposed
adult education. The main priority is to to complement Creative Europe.
promote lifelong and inclusive Especially in the field of informal
learning across Europe which is learning cultural education plays a
facilitated by the following key crucial role as it helps to experiment
actions: with and follow new creative and
artistic approaches, formats and
Learning mobility methods. In this regard, cultural and
Cooperation among organisations creative projects can significantly
and institutions contribute to improving social
Support to policy development and inclusion, access to education or
cooperation intergenerational learning, e.g. in
Jean Monnet actions focusing on libraries, museums or cultural
European integration matters centres.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 14Most importantly, the key actions non-formal education and offer
“learning mobility” and valuable approaches for youth
“cooperation among organisations mobility and youth encounters, e.g.
and institutions” provide diverse through theatre or circus projects.
opportunities for the cultural and
creative sector to develop and In addition to that, cooperation
participate in projects funded by among organisations and
Erasmus+. Learning mobility aims institutions rather emphasizes the
at facilitating the mobility and long term perspectives and is also
exchange of individuals in the field known as so-called strategic
of education - be it at school, partnerships. Public and private
university or in others formal or organisations shall cooperate in
informal contexts. The participation order to build long-lasting
and contribution of cultural and partnerships and improve the
creative organisations is essential in quality and diversity of learning
this context, thereby mainly experiences. Organisations that
focusing on adult education and build a bridge to cultural education
youth work. On the one hand, are eligible in this context which
culture is essential here in the enables theatres, libraries,
context of capacity-building and museums and other cultural and
improving skills related to topics creative organisations to foster
such as intercultural competences, transnational cooperation. Thereby,
learning languages and creating the exchange of best practices and
inclusive and creative formats and the development of creative, artistic
places to learn, e.g. through and inclusive teaching methods –
organising job-shadowing, either in the field of adult education
trainings or exchanges with partner or in the context of youth work –
organisations. On the other hand, shall be at the heart of funded
cultural and art education are projects.
crucial in the field of
More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 15EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL
FUND FOR REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT (EAFRD)
budget 77.850 bn €
target group local and regional authorities, NGO, public and private
institutions
to support sustainable and inclusive rural development
objectives
Helping rural communities to WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
develop a vibrant and economically
and socially viable environment is In general, the support for cultural
the overarching objective of the projects is not clearly mentioned in
European Agricultural Fund for the programme, however the
Regional Development (EAFRD). EAFRD facilitates investments in
While it is part of the common rural infrastructures which does not
agricultural policy (CAP), its focus exclude cultural infrastructures.
goes beyond the agricultural sector Against this backdrop, measures to
and mainly lies on implementing restore and protect cultural heritage
innovate strategies and measures to in rural areas, to offer cultural
support rural development from a activities or to promote rural tourism
more cross-cutting and holistic and related cultural and touristic
approach. services are possible ways for the
cultural and creative sector to access
this funding programme.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 16Furthermore, the so called
LEADER approach has been
widely established under the
umbrella of the EAFRD both in the
past and current EU funding
period. Nowadays, LEADER is
mainly understood as community-
led local development and
encourages bottom-up initiatives
and cooperation of regional actors
to help rural areas all over Europe
to develop. Local action groups
(LAG) are in charge of
implementing LEADER initiatives
which means that the national and
regional levels pave the way for
the content and design of these
projects. Thus, if and how the
cultural and creative sector can
participate in and profit from this
funding highly depends on the
local priorities. Yet, experiences
from the previous programme
have shown that there is a wide
range of culture-based project
financed by LEADER.
More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 17EUROPEAN REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT FUND (ERDF)
budget 226.9 bn €
target group local or regional authorities, public institutions, NGOs
to support support cohesion policies and sustainable
objectives and inclusive regional development
Enhancing regional development A smarter Europe by promoting
and cohesion policies is one of the innovative and smart economic
main investments of the EU which is transformation
– amongst others – operationalised A greener, low-carbon Europe by
in terms of the European Regional promoting clean and fair energy
Development Fund (ERDF). This transition, green and blue
financial support contributes to investment, the circular economy,
closing the social and economic gap climate adaptation and risk
existing between and within EU prevention and management
Member States. As a result, this A more connected Europe by
instrument strives for building a enhancing mobility and regional
strong relationship between the EU ICT connectivity
and its regions and cities and helps A more social Europe
to modernise the latter. For implementing the European Pillar
modernizing its cohesion policies, of Social Rights
the EU has defined overall priorities A Europe closer to citizens by
which also apply for the European foster the sustainable and
Regional Development Fund: integrated development of urban,
rural and coastal areas and local
initiatives
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 18WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
In general, the programme is in
favour of supporting cultural
projects, but the preliminary
guidelines do not yet present
explicit ways of involving the
cultural and creative sector. This
is partly due to the regional focus
inherent in the ERDF which leads
to determining additional national
and regional priorities.
Nevertheless, evidence shows that
the European Pillar of Social
Rights which is part of the fourth
priority as well as the fifth priority
of bringing Europe and its citizens
closer togehter include diverse
opportunities for the cultural and
creative sector.
Furthermore, investing in the
exploitation and protection of
cultural heritage and in the
development of cultural
infrastructures has proven to be
feasible and successful in the past
programme and simultaneously
seems like a promising approach
in the future ERDF as well.
More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 19EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND+ (ESF+)
budget 87.319 bn €
local and regional authorities, public and private
target group institutions, NGOs
objectives to build a more social and inclusive Europe
Empowering and investing in Equal opportunities and access to
people, their skills, education and labour market
training lies at the core of the Fair working condition
European Social Fund+. By Social protection and inclusion
addressing policy areas like
education, employment and social Consequently, supporting actions to
inclusion, the EU wants to obtain fair social protection, a high-
strengthen its social dimension and skilled workforce and high
find suitable responses to challenges employment levels is an important
emerging from social exclusion, step for Europe’s recovery from the
new forms of work or technological ongoing pandemic as well as for its
developments. The ESF+ unites transition to a green and digital
several previous funding economy. Hence, all measures shall
programmes (Youth Employment respect and promote the European
Initiative, the Fund for the European Pillar of Social Rights which
Aid to the Deprived and the EU provides a new framework of rights
Programme for Employment and for citizens encompassing 20 main
Social Innovation) under one principles that are at the core of the
umbrella striving for: new ESF+. For that purpose, social
innovation and bottom-up
approaches shall be encouraged,
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 20especially through facilitating WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
partnerships and cooperation
including the public and private Both the European Pillar of Social
sector as well as civil society. The Rights and the ESF+ intend to
fact that this instrument partly improve the access and
underlies shared management implementation of social rights for
means that the Member States and European citizens which is often
their regions can influence and interlinked with cultural aspects
adapt the priorities to their specific and rights. However, the
needs and conditions. Therefore, it preliminary design of the
depends on their decisions to what programme does not foresee an
extent their regional objectives rely important role for the cultural and
on the cultural and creative sector. creative sector to contribute to its
overall objectives. Nevertheless,
some of the relevant topics of the
ESF+ such as gender equality,
lifelong learning, work-life
balance, support to children and
inclusion of elderly and people
with disabilities can theoretically
be tackled through cultural and
creative approaches and projects.
More Information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 21EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS
(ESC)budget 895 m €
target group formal and non-formal education
to enhance the engagement of young people and
objectives organisations and to foster cohesion and solidarity
The European Solidarity Corps months. Thereby, the participating
mainly addresses young people aged young people practice solidarity and
18-35 from the EU and partner learn to build a sense of belonging,
countries and invites them to however only in armed conflict-free
participate in voluntary activities countries. Moreover, the volunteers
usually located in regions facing get the chance to improve their social,
societal challenges and severe crises. civic and cultural skills which can
The participants can engage in two help them on their future personal and
areas: professional path. That is why
theprogramme also aims at reaching
Strand 1: participation in solidarity out for young people with different
activities addressing societal backgrounds and those who usually
challenges face more obstacles in accessing
Strand 2: European Voluntary educational, cultural or social
Humanitarian Aid Corps opportunities and support.
The voluntary activities and related Regardless of the respective field and
topics are diverse and can range location of activity, the European
from environment, youth work or Solidarity Corps offers young people
children care to inclusive work with to get involved in:
minorities and can last up to 12
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 22Volunteering WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
Traineeships and jobs
Solidarity projects Deriving from the openness of the
Networking activities programme and the diversity of
Quality and support measures relevant topics and activities, the
European Solidarity Corps offers
At the same time, the European multiple opportunities for cultural
Solidarity Corps offers international projects. What matters is that the key
organisations – both public and idea of the programme – fostering
private ones – to host and support social skills and professional
these volunteers. This involves e.g. competences of the volunteers – is
organising networking activities or considerably taken into account and
offering trainings and support in strongly interlinked with the cultural
administrative issues.The involvement and creative activities. This is given
and possible partnership of these especially in the context of the first
organisations also helps fostering strand participation in solidarity
European cooperation and solidarity. activities addressing societal
In order to participate, organisations challenges.
have to qualify through a national
process relying – amongst others – on More information here.
criteria such as non-discrimination
and equal treatment.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 23HORIZON EUROPE
budget 79.9 bn €
target group research and innovation sector
to support European research and innovation and to
objectives increase Europe's competitiveness
Horizon Europe is the main EU WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
funding instrument dedicated to
research and innovation. Due to its On the first sight, Horizon Europe
large size, it has a relatively complex might not seem very accessible for
structure which is summarised in cultural projects. However,
three pillars: considering that is goes beyond
supporting academia and research
Pillar 1: Excellent Science organisations and also provides
Pillar 2: Global Challenges and funding for a wide range of public
European Industrial and private institutions, Horizon
Competitiveness Europe is also open for cultural and
Pillar 3: Innovative Europe creative institutions and industries.
Most importantly, there are
Throughout the entire programme, significant news in the context of
interaction of science, technology, the second pillar, as a specific
social sciences and humanities is cluster named culture, creativity
encouraged including the input of the and inclusive societies has been
cultural and creative sector. The main introduced composed by three
aims are to obtain sustainable priorities:
innovation, to provide attractive and
creative jobs, to improve the use of
digital technologies, to foster
education and citizens’ engagement.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 24Enhancing democracy and invites curators, designers, restorers
governance and other creative professionals to
Culture, cultural heritage and react to the growing consumer
creativity demands and develop new
Management of social and products and designs and to protect
economic transformations artefacts of cultural heritage.
While the first and third priority are Apart from these two ways of
also suitable for cultural projects, it is accessing direct funding, there is
evident that the second priority is another important aspect: the so
most relevant. In this light, activities called knowledge and innovation
shall improve the protection and community for the cultural and
restoration of cultural heritage and creative industries (KIC CCI) which
facilitate more engagement and is supposed to start in 2022. Based
better access to it, including digital at the European Institute of
tools. Raising awareness of the Innovation and Technology (Pillar
diversity of European cultural 3), it will form a partnership
heritage and its common roots shall consisting of stakeholders from
also strengthen the sense of education, innovation and research
belonging. Furthermore, projects that aims at developing innovative
shall help to drive sustainable growth strategies to make the CCI more
and job creation by enhancing the resilient and competitive. Thus, the
innovation potential of the cultural results and activities shall
and creative industries. contribute to decrease the
fragmentation of the cultural and
Additionally, further opportunities creative landscape and help
especially for the cultural and building a fertile environment for
creative industries are hidden behind the cultural and creative
the cluster called digital, industry and professionals and organisations.
space which is also part of pillar 2.
On the one hand, support in the sub- More information here.
category advanced materials
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 25INTERREG
budget 7.95 bn €
target group regional and local authorities, NGOs, and public and
private institutions
to support cross-border cooperation for improving
objectives Europe's cohesion and quality of life
Interreg is part of the European The related funding for reaching these
territorial cooperation (ETC) and as objectives is distributed according to
such it is based on the general four regional focuses:
architecture and principles defining
Cross-border cooperation
the European cohesion policies as
outlined in relation to the ERDF (page Transnational cooperation and
maritime cooperation
18). Additionally, Interreg specifically
Interregional cooperation
Outermost regions cooperation
aims at:
Increasing the effectiveness of
labour markets and facilitating Against this backdrop, the
access to quality employent geographical coverage is defined for
Providing access to education, each of the four categories and results
in different programme areas.
training and lifelong learning
Improving the equal access to Consequently, the programme is
administered on the national or
affordable, sustainable and quality
healthcare services regional level depending on the
Enhancing the effectiveness and composition and location of each
resilience of healthcare systems Interreg area. Deriving from that, there
Fostering social inclusion, can be significant differences among
facilitating equal opportunities and the regional priorities and objectives
fighting poverty and discrimination underlying the provision of financial
support.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 26WHAT'S IN IT FOR policies as well as the specific
objectives of Interreg encompass
CULTURE?
aspects such as education, social
inclusion and integration which are
As part of the cohesion policies,
fundamentally linked with culture.
Interreg substantially aims at
On the other hand, cultural projects
bridging the gap between Europe
have clearly been part of the
and its citizens, most importantly
previous programme, e.g. in terms of
through improving the social
building transnational networks and
cohesion and quality of life in
activities among cultural
urban, rural and coastal areas. Due
stakeholders, facilitating intercultural
to the focus on the local level and
exchanges, investing into cultural
its specific needs in the respective
infrastructures, safeguarding cultural
programme area it is difficult to
heritage or strengthening cross-
make a general statement about the
border media services. Therefore, it
role of culture in this funding
is very likely that similar activities
instrument. However, several
with the cultural and creative sector
factors contribute to assuming that
are eligible according to the new
the cultural and creative sector is
Interreg guidelines 2021-2027.
active and relevant in this context.
More information here.
On the one hand, the general
priorities of the EU’s cohesion
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 27INVESTEU
budget 9.4 bn €
target group public and private sector
to facilitate investments and to contribute to Europe's
objectives competitiveness
InvestEU unites various former EU Throughout these priorities, InvestEU
financial instruments and is the EU’s mainly addresses SMEs and mid-cap
main support programme for boosting companies including those based in
public and private investments. Thus, the cultural and creative sector,
it provides essential support to all media, journalism and the audio-
sizes of companies and guarantees visual sector.
that their investments contribute to the
current EU’s policy priorities such as WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
the European Green Deal and
digitisation. Against this backdrop, it In terms of promoting activities and
has four general policy windows: stakeholders from the cultural and
creative sector, InvestEU offers
Sustainable infrastructures several opportunities, however with
Research, digitisation and strong emphasis on supporting
innovation companies and enterprises which
Social investment and skills makes it more accessible for the
SMEs creative industries. Most importantly,
support for SMEs and social
investments and skills refer to the
cultural and creative sector, yet there
might prospectively be further
opportunities in relation to the other
priorities.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 28In the field of social investment and Furthermore, the so-called Guarantee
WHAT'S
skills, INsupport
financial IT FOR aims CULTURE?
at Facility for the Cultural and Creative
improving social infrastructures, Sector which used to be part of
social inclusion, integration of Creative Europe (2014-2020) will be
vulnerable groups as well as part of InvestEU from 2021 onwards.
promoting education and training. It aims at facilitating the access of
Here, cultural activities can play a cultural and creative organizations to
crucial role in contributing to these bank loans and financial support.
goals. However, this depends on the
individual Member States that have to
The support for SMEs aims at make arrangements with their
improving the accessibility and national banks. So far, only very few
availability of financial support for Member States have put it into
small and medium-sized enterprises practice and it remains to be seen
which are often part of the cultural how this will be implemented in the
and creative sector. Moreover, future.
COSME which used to be an
independent programme from 2014- More information here.
2020 supporting a wide range of
cultural and creative projects will
continue running under this umbrella.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 29NEIGHBOURHOOD,
DEVELOPMENT AND
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
INSTRUMENT
budget (NDICI)
71.8 bn €
external action regarding neighbouring countries and
target group other territories
to strengthen cooperation with non-EU countries and to foster
objectives Europe's position in the world
The Neighbourhood, Development WHAT'S IN IT FOR CULTURE?
and International Cooperation
Instrument is an important tool to The role of culture has lately
strengthen and modernise the EU’s received increasing attention in the
external policies with the intention to EU’s external relations and therefore
foster stability, peace, prosperity and NDICI also supports actions with the
sustainable development and to cultural and creative sector and is
decrease poverty. The financial coherent with the logic behind
support to foster the dialogue and Creative Europe. Most evidently,
cooperation with countries outside the culture is addressed in three
EU is provided through the following categories of the thematic pillar:
components:
Human rights and democracy
The geographical pillar Civil society and peace
The thematic pillar Global challenges
The rapid response pillar
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 30Cultural interventions are explicitly migration. It is not clear though how
highlighted in the frame of global concretely these additional mentions
challenges. On the one hand, this of culture will result in support for
entails projects that promote cultural cultural and creative cooperation
diversity and intercultural dialogue with third countries.
in order to build and strengthen
Besides, the geographical pillar
inter-community relations. On the
might provide further opportunities
other hand, supporting cultural
for cooperation with the cultural and
activities is underlined as important
creative sector especially
contribution to sustainable social
considering that it shall complement
and economic development.
actions and priorities highlighted
Additionally, cultural heritage is
under the thematic pillar. However,
another focus.
as the respective regions and
Apart from this, cultural aspects are countries have individual needs and
also relevant regarding other funding focuses, this is yet to be
subthemes – both within the known and can differ from region to
category global challenges and region.
beyond – such as education, human
rights, gender equality and More information here.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027 - PAGE 31Author: Marje Brütt
Published by:
Creative Europe Desk KULTUR
c/o Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V.
Weberstraße 59a, 53113 Bonn
Email: info@ced-kultur.eu
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