EU arts and cultural funding seminar to be held in Belfast
Howard Lake | 22 October 2013 | News
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Queen’s University are running a free seminar for creative and cultural organisations across Northern Ireland about the upcoming EU funding opportunities worth nearly €1.5 billion for arts, cultural, heritage and co-operation projects.
The event will take place at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University on 27 November from 2pm – 3.30pm.
The Creative Europe programme (2014-2020) replaces the Culture Programme 2007-2013, Media and Media Mundus programmes as the EU Commission’s main funding instrument for the cultural, heritage and media sectors across Europe.
The event is open to organisations in the creative and cultural sectors interested in working collaboratively across Europe and information on the day will be supplied by the UK Cultural Contact Point, Visiting Arts, who wil be present to deliver advice on eligibility, funding streams and applications.
Attendance is free but spaces are limited and and pre-registration is required.
The European Commission have outlined that Creative Europe will offer the following:
- 300,000 artists and cultural professionals and their work will receive funding to reach new audiences beyond their home countries.
- More than 1,000 European films would receive distribution support, enabling them to be seen by audiences throughout Europe and beyond, on traditional and digital platforms.
- Thousands of cultural organisations and professionals from Europe would benefit from training to gain new skills and to strengthen their capacity to operate internationally.
- 2,500 European cinemas would receive support enabling them to ensure that at least 50% of the films they show are European.
- More than 5,500 books and other literary works will receive support for translation, which will allow readers to enjoy them in their mother tongue.
- Millions of citizens would be reached through projects funded by the programme.
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