The European Commission (EC) announced the details of the first call for proposals for the new Creative Europe programme on 11 December with a deadline for the cooperation projects strand of 5 March; for literary translation, 12 March; and for platforms and networks, 19 March, while there will be a second set of deadlines in October 2014 for the new Culture programme.
The EC writes:
The Culture sub-programme of Creative Europe supports cultural and creative organisations with a view to helping them operate transnationally and promoting cross-border circulation of works of culture and mobility of cultural players. It helps to launch projects with a European dimension and to share cultural content across national, and European, borders; it enables cultural and creative players to work internationally and to internationalise their careers and activities in the EU and beyond; it funds cooperation projects, literary translations, networks and platforms.
All schemes have a new audience development dimension. The main novelty is the new support scheme for platforms, aiming at showcasing emerging talents and stimulating European non-national programming of cultural activities. More innovations will follow including a new Financial Instrument for the Creative sector.
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