Eligible Actions and Applicants
The Programme supports projects, organisations, promotional activities and research in all branches of culture, except the audiovisual branch for which there is a separate programme named MEDIA. Cultural operators, including cultural enterprises, can participate in the Programme as long as they are acting in a non-profit-making cultural capacity.
Eligible applicants must:
- be a public* or private organisation with legal status, whose principal activity is in the cultural sphere (cultural and creative sectors); and
- have their registered legal seat in one of the eligible countries.
*) Public organisation is considered as any organisation, any part of whose costs are financed from the State budget as of right, either by central, regional or local government.That is, these costs are financed from public sector funds raised through taxation or fines or fees regulated by law, without going through an application process which might result in their being unsuccessful in obtaining funds. Organisations that depend on state funding for their existence and receive grants year after year, but for which there exists at least the theoretical possibility that they may fail to receive money in a given year are considered to be private organisations.
Natural persons are not eligible to apply for a grant under this Programme.
Eligible Countries
Countries eligible under this Programme are:
- EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom);
- European Economic Area (EEA) countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway);
- Countries candidate to EU membership (Croatia, Turkey and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) plus Serbia.
- Countries of the western Balkans : Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Albania could become eligible in the future, subject to the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding concerning its participation in the Programme.
All those countries that are not included in the above list of eligible countries are referred to as Third Countries. Further information on development of the participation conditions of Albania (and other Third Countries) will be announced on this website.
