2025 Creative Europe Work Programme: over 338 million for culture and audiovisual

The new 2025 work programme of Creative Europe will support the audiovisual industry and other creative and cultural sectors, funding projects in diverse fields ranging from cinema to literature. The strategy, which will build on the lessons learned over the previous four years, will further integrate the themes of green, digital, and social inclusion.  

Creative Europe 2021-2027 Programme

The 2025 work programme allocates over €338 million to help professionals and artists from all cultural sectors collaborate interdisciplinarily and transnationally to gain more opportunities and reach new audiences.

The new initiatives under Creative Europe will take into account developments in the cultural and creative sectors, experience from previous years' implementation, and feedback from stakeholder dialogue. Additionally, these initiatives will aim to steer the Culture ecosystem towards an ecologically sustainable, inclusive, and digitally advanced future.

Specifically, the funds available for the European programme next year are divided among various interventions - including calls, competitions, and awards - referring to the three components of the programme: Culture section, Media section, and Cross-sectoral section. Here are the first indications on the new Creative Europe calls.

Previews of the 2025 Creative Europe calls

1. Culture Section 

Regarding the Culture section, three new calls will be published for:

• European cooperation projects (€59.9 million)
• circulation of European literary works (€5 million)
• support for Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors (€5 million).

In parallel, two 'multi-annual calls' will also start, operational over three years, specifically from 2025 to 2027, focusing on: 

• European Authors' Day (€1.5 million, of which €500,000 for 2025)
• European Heritage Award (€900,000, of which €300,000 for 2025).

In 2025, there will also be a further commitment of resources for a range of multi-year actions already initiated under the 2023 and 2024 work programmes. Among these:

• European network of cultural and creative organizations (€39.7 million, of which €11.1 million for 2025)
• pan-European cultural entities (€7.2 million, of which €2.3 million for 2025)
• platform for promoting emerging artists (€47.4 million, of which €12.1 million for 2025)
• protection of cultural heritage against natural and human-made disasters (€1.5 million, of which €500,000 for 2025)

There are two 'indirect' actions of the programme: European Heritage Days and Culture Moves Europe.