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Author: Isaure Hiace
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Creative Europe is not necessarily well known, yet this programme of the European Commission has been helping and supporting cultural and audiovisual industry actors across Europe for years. How can a project receive funding? Esther Krausz, who works for the “Media” programme at the Creative Europe Desk in Vienna, is used to this question. “Applications come from all the member countries of the Creative Europe programme, and they are completed online,” she explains. “All projects are then evaluated and ranked according to a points system: there is an evaluation guide for each funding scheme and an independent jury evaluates the projects. At the end, all the applications are ranked according to the number of points attributed, and the funding is awarded to those who come out top.” Specific criteria exist for each category, and Esther Krausz's main role is to accompany applicants: “at the Creative Europe Desks, we do not influence the evaluations. What we do is provide information. If you have a project and would like to apply, you can turn to the Creative Europe Desk in your count...
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