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Innovation Lab

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Details

Location:EU 27
EU 27
Contracting authority type:Development Institution
Status:Awarded
Budget: EUR 7,482,102
Award ceiling:N/A
Award floor:N/A
Sector:Culture, Information & Communication Technology
Languages:English
Eligible applicants:Unrestricted / Unspecified
Eligible citizenships:EU 27, Albania, Anguilla, Armeni ...
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EU 27, Albania, Anguilla, Armenia, Aruba, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territory, Georgia, Greenland, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Montserrat, New Caledonia, North Macedonia, Norway, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Serbia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos, Ukraine, Wallis and Futuna
Date posted: Oct 24, 2023

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Description

Call updates

19 September 2024

Call Results:

Published: 24 October 2023

Deadline: 25 April 2024

Available budget: EUR 7.482.102

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted: 197

Number of inadmissible proposals: 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 10

Number of above-threshold proposals: 10

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 7.397.091,89

Total budget granted for above-threshold proposals: EUR 7.397.091,89

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact EACEA-CROSS-INNOVLAB@ec.europa.eu


 

May 6, 2024 3:29:38 PM

Call CREA-CROSS-2024-INNOVLAB has closed on 25/04/2024 - 17:00:00 CET (Brussels).

197 proposals have been submitted.

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in October 2024.


Feb 5, 2024 5:33:42 PM

Please note that the list of non-EU participating countries has been updated on 1st February 2024 with changes related to the level of participation of Montenegro and Tunisia: list-3rd-country-participation_crea_en.pdf (europa.eu) 


Oct 26, 2023 12:00:01 AM

The submission session is now available for: CREA-CROSS-2024-INNOVLAB(CREA-PJG)


Innovation Lab

CREA-CROSS-2024-INNOVLAB

Programme: Creative Europe Programme (CREA)
Call: Innovation Lab (CREA-CROSS-2024-INNOVLAB)
Type of action: CREA-PJG CREA Project Grants
Type of MGA: CREA Action Grant Budget-Based [CREA-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 26 October 2023
Deadline date: 25 April 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

Objective:
The objectives of the Creative Innovation Lab is to encourage cooperation between the audiovisual sector and other CCSs in order to accompany their environmental transition and/or to improve their competitiveness and/or the circulation, visibility, discoverability, availability, diversity and the audience of European content across borders. The support also aims to enable the European audiovisual sector and other CCSs to better adapt to the opportunities offered by the development of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Worlds.

Expected results

Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors: transparency, data collection and the appropriate use of artificial intelligence/big data, adaptation to the challenges and opportunities driven by the ongoing changes in those sectors;

Improve the adaptation of the European audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors to the opportunities offered by the development of virtual worlds (also called metaverse(s)).

Improve the production/financing and circulation of European audiovisual and cultural content in the digital age;

Increase the visibility, discoverability, availability and diversity of European audiovisual and cultural content in the digital age;

Increase the potential audience of European audiovisual and cultural content in the digital age.

Accelerate the environmental transition of the European audiovisual, cultural and other creative sectors, in line with the priorities of the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus

Description of the activities to be funded

The InnovLab support shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) with a high potential of replicability in those sectors.

Projects must therefore focus on one (or several) of the below topics:

Virtual Worlds as a new environment for the promotion of European content, audience renewal and competitiveness of European content industries;

Innovative Business Tools for production, financing, distribution or promotion enabled or enhanced by new technology (AI, big data, blockchain, Virtual Worlds, NFT, etc.), in particular:

Rights’ management and monetisation (including innovative bundled subscription offers to access diverse European cultural content from various existing European platforms), at the same time ensuring transparency and fair remuneration for creators and artists;

Data collection and analysis, with particular emphasis on prediction for content creation and audience development (including innovative cross-sectoral tools to improve the quality of the subscriber service and a better valorisation of European content offered by European online platforms);

“Greener” practices in order to lower the impact on the environment of the audiovisual and other cultural sectors in line with the Commission’s Green Deal and the New Bauhaus initiative.

Cross-sectoral cooperation between the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors is at the heart of the Call. Therefore, applications must clearly demonstrate the extent of the cross-sectoral approach, the conditions for its implementation and the expected benefits for the sectors covered.