Creative Europe Desk Czech Republic – Culture Office

The mission of the Czech Creative Europe Desk is to provide Czech organisations with information about the European Union’s Creative Europe programme and thereby encourage their interest in international cooperation and in organising productive international cultural projects.

Creative Europe Desk

We organise seminars to provide information on EU programmes and a series of seminars for applicants. We inform and organise events on topics related to European cultural policy, priorities and barriers faced by the European Union (international mobility, access to the arts, working with audiences, digitalisation, engaging disadvantaged groups, networking, cultural and creative industries). The Office is based at the ATI, with which we jointly organise the Centre of Interest series of events highlighting the above mentioned topics; however, the Office is organisationally and financially independent from the ATI.

Creative Europe is the EU's programme to support cinema and the cultural and creative industries.

Creative Europe aims to create a single framework for funding projects in the performing arts, visual arts, publishing and literature, film, television, music, interdisciplinary arts, cultural heritage and video games, maximising synergies between different sectors and increasing the effectiveness of the support provided.

The Creative Europe programme consists of two sub-programmes and an interdisciplinary strand.

MEDIA sub-programme - support for the European cinema and audiovisual industry
sub-programme CULTURE - support for international projects in the field of cultural and creative industries
Cross-sectoral part - includes the Guarantee Fund, which is intended for loans to profitable projects in the cultural and creative sectors. The cross-sectoral part also offers funds for studies and supports better data collection to improve the arguments for strategic actions or funds to support pilot cooperation projects between the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors.

Programme priorities

supporting Europe’s cultural and linguistic diversity,
strengthening the capacity of the cultural and creative industries to operate on an international level,
improving the cultural and creative industries‘ access to funding,
promoting the use of digital technologies,
working with the public/audiences,
advancing cross-sectoral and international cooperation,
collecting data on the cultural and creative industries.