Pan-European cultural entities

Last updated: 19.7.2025
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The Pan-European Cultural Entities funding program, under the Creative Europe Programme, aims to support cultural entities, specifically orchestras, in providing training, professionalization, and performance opportunities for young high-potential artists from across Europe. This initiative seeks to enhance European cultural diversity and heritage, foster artistic excellence, and promote EU cultural values through high-level artistic creation accessible to new and young audiences, leveraging digital technologies.

Who is Funded

The program targets cultural entities, particularly orchestras, dedicated to nurturing young, highly talented artists from at least 20 Creative Europe participating countries. Its core objective is to advance artistic excellence and promote European cultural values through training, professionalization, and diverse performance opportunities, including those leveraging digital tools.

What is Funded

This program funds projects that offer training, professionalization, and performance opportunities for young, highly-talented European musicians in the field of orchestras. Activities must involve artists from at least 20 participating Creative Europe countries and aim to enhance European cultural diversity, artistic excellence, and audience engagement, including through digital means.

Type and Scope of Funding

The program provides financial support in the form of lump sum grants, designed to support 3 to 5 projects with a total indicative budget of 5.4 million Euro for 2021. The funding aims to facilitate extensive training, professionalization, and performance opportunities for young European artists within pan-European cultural entities.

Conditions and Requirements

Applicants must adhere to specific eligibility and admissibility conditions detailed in the comprehensive Call document. The evaluation process is based on defined criteria, scoring, and thresholds.

Application Procedure

The application process involves preparing proposals using standard templates and submitting them by the specified deadline. The evaluation criteria and process are outlined in the Call document.

The Pan-European cultural entities funding program operates under the framework of the Creative Europe Programme, and its implementation is guided by specific annual work programmes and model grant agreements.

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Funding Overview

Funding Status

Funding Status:

Closed

Allocated Budget

Allocated Budget:

5,400,000 €

Award Channel

Award Channel:

Framework Programme Call

Region

Region:

Projects must involve young artists who are nationals or residents of at least 20 countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme.

Sectors

Sectors:

Creative Industries, Cultural Institutions, Education and Vocational Training, Research and Development

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries:

Young high potential artists, cultural entities (orchestras)

Application Type

Application Type:

Consortium Required

Funding Stages

Funding Stages:

Capacity Building, Service Delivery, Commercialization, Planning, Implementation, Awareness Campaigns

Funding Provider

Program Level:

European Union

Funding Body:

European Commission

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