The Creative Europe programme: European Implementation Assessment

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.The Creative Europe programme (CE) – in operation since January 2014 – brings together the cultural and media programmes during the 2007-2013 programming period and is designed to support activities in the cultural and audiovisual sectors and to promote cross-sectoral synergies.

With the aim of enhancing the competitiveness of the creative and cultural industries, Creative Europe was devised to help the creative and cultural industries and audiovisual sectors to better face the challenges of increasing digitalisation, market fragmentation, global competition and difficult access to financing.

To this effect, Creative Europe desks were created in participating countries to provide prompt information on the different aspects of the programme.

Against this background, the European Commission will present the results of the programme's mid-term evaluation by the end of 2017. This implementation assessment takes stock of the developments to date by analysing the main implementation issues vis-à-vis the programme's intended objectives. In order to reveal possible obstacles and address remaining problems, this assessment serves the overall purposes of the Implementation Report requested by the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) of the European Parliament.

Author: Samuele Dossi

European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, June 2016: The Creative Europe programme: European Implementation Assessment http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/581413/EPRS_IDA(2016)581413_EN.pdf

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, June 2016: Research for CULT Committee - Creative Europe - Media: Implementation, First Experiences http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2861/6709

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, June 2016: Research for CULT Committee - Creative Europe - Media: Implementation, First Experiences http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/573451/IPOL_STU(2016)573451_EN.pdf

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