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TV and online content Documentary projects

European Commission · Creative Europe Programme (CREA)

Posted 30 Sept 2026 · About 4 months left

Summary

Scope:

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.

The action aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA strand, including from low capacity countries, in order to produce high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment. Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies. Supported projects can also have associated partners from countries not participating in the MEDIA Strand, though these cannot be beneficiaries. These partners can come…

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Eligibility and conditions

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">Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in the call document.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries

described in the call document.

3. Other eligibility conditions

described in the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

described in the call document.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in the call document.

1st cut-off date

2nd cut-off date

Publication of the call

30 September 2026

Deadline for submitting applications

10 February 2027, 17:00 (Brussels time)

15 September 2027, 17:00 (Brussels time)

Evaluation period

February - June 2027

September 2027 - January 2028

Information to applicants

August 2027

March 2028

Signature of grant agreement

November 2027

June 2028

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

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

Calculator (CREA MEDIA LS TVONLINE)

Financing structure (CREA MEDIA TVONLINE)

Information on independence and ownership control (CREA MEDIA)

Information on language of submission documents (CREA MEDIA)

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)

CREA MGA

Lump Sum MGA

Additional documents:

CREA Annual Work Programmes

CREA Regulation 2021/818

EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509

Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment

EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement

Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual

Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions

Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

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