Total budget of the call: EUR 60.000.000
The Culture programme aims to achieve a common cultural area through cultural co-operation between artists, cultural stakeholders and cultural institutions in Europe. It will thus contribute actively to the development of a European identity from the grass roots. In order to reach the European citizens, the EU institutions are using intermediaries, i.e. theatres, museums, professional associations, research centres, universities, cultural institutes, the authorities, etc.
Specific objectives of the Culture programme are:
-Supporting transnational mobility of people working in the cultural sector
-Encouraging the transnational circulation of works of art and artistic and cultural products promoting intercultural dialogue
Within Strand 1 there is:
1.1 Multi-annual cooperation projects (lasting a minimum of 36 months to a maximum of 60 months)
- to foster multi-annual, trans-national cultural links by encouraging a minimum of six cultural operators from at least six countries taking
part in the Programme to cooperate and work within and across sectors to develop joint cultural activities over a period of three to five
years.
1.2.1 Co-operation projects (lasting up to 24 months)
- support actions shared by at least three cultural operators, working within and across sectors, from at least three countries taking part
in the Programme over a maximum period of two years. Actions that explore means of long-term cooperation are especially targeted.
1.2.2 Literary translation projects (lasting up to 24 months)
- support to translation projects aimed at enhancing knowledge of the literature and literary heritage of fellow Europeans by way of
promoting the circulation of literary works between countries.
- publishing houses can be awarded grants for translations and publication of works of fiction from one European language into another
European language.
1.3.5 Cooperation projects with Third Countries (lasting up to 24 months)
- support to cultural cooperation projects aimed at cultural exchanges between the countries taking part in the Programme and Third
Countries,which have concluded association or cooperation agreements with the EU, provided that the latter contain cultural clauses.
- every year one or more Third Country(ies) is/are selected for that particular year. The country(ies) is/are indicated each year on the
website of the Executive Agency at the latest 4 months before the deadline for submission.
-must generate a concrete international cooperation dimension, involving at least three cultural operators, from at least three countries
taking part in the Programme and cultural cooperation with at least one organisation from the selected Third Country and involve
cultural activities carried out in the selected Third Country.
1.3.6: Support for European cultural festivals:
- support festivals having a European dimension and contributing to the general objectives of the Programme (ie mobility of professionals,
circulation of works and intercultural dialogue).
Budget
The Programme has a total budget of EUR 400.000.000 for the 2007-2013 period.
Eligibility:
-non audiovisual cultural operators and sectors, including cultural enterprises, where they are acting in a non-profit-making cultural
capacity
Eligible countries:
-EU Member States
-EEA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway)
-candidate countries (Croatia, Macedonia, Turkey) Serbia, Montenegro and the countries of the western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia
Herzegovina) depending on the agreements signed
Deadlines:
-Strand 1.1 multi-annual cooperation projects & Strand 1.2.1 cooperation: 7 November 2012
-Strand 1.2.1 Cooperation measures: 7 November 2012
-Strand 1.2.2 Literary Translation Projects: 3 February 2012
-Strand 1.3.5 Support for Cultural Cooperation with and in third countries: 4 May 2012
-Strand 1.3.6: Support for European cultural festivals: 5 December 2012
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