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Author: Saskia De Ville
Picture Credit: Brice Robert
“Belgium is doing really well! It has many projects supported by the European Creative Programme”, rejoices Barbara Gessler, Head of the Creative Europe Unit, to the European Commission Culture Commissioner. Of the 455 million allocated to the culture sub-programme between 2014-2020, 47 million were received by projects involving Belgium. Belgium is thus the second beneficiary of the culture programme, just behind France.
And out of the 174 projects submitted by a Belgian leader, 45 of them were selected, which represents one in four projects (25%), compared to one in five at a European level. Regarding the media sub-programme, the same cheerful observation: 580 Belgian projects were supported over the period 2014-2020, amounting to 39.6 million, which corresponds to 5% of the total budget.
How do we explain these good results? “Belgium is a small country, so we have to co-produce. It is something that we have in our DNA so we probably defend ourselves a little better than others”, analyzes Stéphanie Leempoels, Head of the Media Section at the Creative Europe Culture Desk - ...
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