Creative Europe is the EU’s flagship programme supporting cultural and creative sectors (CCS), with a budget of 2.44 billion EUR for the current period, 2021–2027. With an 80% higher budget compared to the previous seven-year period, the programme promotes cultural and linguistic diversity, European heritage, and competitiveness of these sectors. Its key focus includes measures to help these sectors face challenges, enhance their resilience, accelerate digital transformation, contribute to environmental protection, and advance inclusion and gender equality.
Last year marked 10 years since Creative Europe unified the previously separate Culture and MEDIA strands under one umbrella, adding a new Cross-sectoral strand to foster innovation and collaboration across creative sectors. Additionally, it incorporated the news media sector to ensure support for an independent and pluralistic media environment and promote media literacy.
Creative Europe supports artistic and cultural collaboration and mobility across Europe, encouraging the creation of new European works and their global circulation, fostering innovation, and strengthening the economic and social dimensions of Europe’s cultural, audiovisual, and other creative sectors. By encouraging international engagement and the development of long-term cross-border partnerships, Creative Europe makes an important contribution to the sustainable growth of these sectors – including in Slovenia.
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