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" Creative Europe | Video game and immersive content development "

Creative Europe | Video game and immersive content development

Creative Europe supports video games and immersive content development

PROVIDER

Creative Europe

The objective of this call is to support Video games and immersive content development to increase the capacity of European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies to develop video games and interactive immersive experiences with the potential to reach global audiences. The support also aims to improve the competiveness of the European video games industry and other companies producing interactive immersive content in European and international markets by enabling the retention of intellectual property by European developers. 

Description of the activities to be funded

Support will be given to the development of works and prototypes of interactive narrative storytelling with original content and/or quality gameplay intended for production and global commercial exploitation via PCs, consoles, mobile devices, tablets, smart phones and other technologies.

The aim is to provide funds to video game production companies and other companies producing immersive content to develop works with a high level of originality and innovative and creative value, and that have a high level of commercial ambition and extensive cross-border potential to reach European and international markets. This will allow for further investment in innovative European content and increase the competitiveness of European companies in the digital global market.

Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.

INFO

AMOUNT

7 000 000 Euros


APPLICATION DEADLINE

February 12, 2025


ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine

ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

− be legal entities (public or private bodies)
− be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
− Creative Europe Participating Countries:
− EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
− non-EU countries:
− listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
− be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and be owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. 
- be European video game production companies, XR studios or audiovisual production companies
− the coordinator must demonstrate recent experience in producing internationally distributed works

APPLICATION DETAILS

For more information please read the detailed open call document.

DEADLINE

2025-02-12


TYPE OF SUPPORT

Public funding


FUNDING COUNTRIES

All EU Countries


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KEYWORDS
Audio-visual arts - Digital approaches - Digital arts and new media - Education - IT - Technology - Virtual media art