European Co-development - CREA-MEDIA-2025

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Description

The objective of the support to European co-development is to support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential.

The European co-development shall provide support to the development of a single project for commercial exploitation intended for cinema release, television broadcasting or commercial exploitation on digital platforms or a multi-platform environment in the following categories: animation, creative documentary or fiction.

The project must be co-developed by at least two European independent production companies, having signed a co-development agreement specifying the division of tasks and the collaboration on creative aspects.

Contacts

Sportelli Europa Creativa (Italia)
Email: EACEA-MEDIA-CODEV@ec.europa.eu
Web Site: www.europacreativa-media.it/contatti

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Data sheet

Production

Co-Production

Distribution channel

Cinema
Television
Web

Film industry branch

Production

Eligible projects

Feature Film
TV series
Documentary
Animation

Beneficiaries

Italian production company
European production company

Maximum contribution

€ 60,000
€ 100,000 for TV series with a production budget of 20M

Maximum quota on cost

70%

Type of contribution

Non-repayable grants

Requirements

To be eligible, the applicants must:

be legal entities (public or private bodies);
be established in one of the eligible countries;
be independent European audiovisual production companies;
the project leader (the coordinator) be able to demonstrate recent experience in producing internationally distributed works;
submit a single application both as an applicant on the European list and as a project leader. However, they can be partners in a co-development project;
schedule the first day of shooting at least 10 months after the deadline for submitting applications;
the project leader or partner owning the majority of the rights relating to the projects.

Projects should not normally exceed 30 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).