Key Takeaways:
- Clár MEDIA, a part of the EU’s Creative Europe Programme, is designed to bolster the creative and cultural sectors, enhancing their digital, green, resilient, and inclusive nature.
- The programme’s focus on promoting collaborations, business innovations, and audience development aims to equip the European creative industry to compete globally.
- In 2022, Clár MEDIA’s budget saw a significant 31% increase compared to 2021, demonstrating the EU’s commitment to fostering creativity and innovation.
- The digital revolution and COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted new challenges for the creative industry, underscoring the need for programmes like Clár MEDIA.
- Clár MEDIA’s emphasis on international collaboration, inclusivity, and sustainability aligns with the EU’s broader policy goals.
1. Unravelling Clár MEDIA and Its Vision for Creative Europe
Launched as part of the EU’s Creative Europe Programme, Clár MEDIA is an initiative to empower the film and broadcasting sectors across Europe. With a whopping budget of €2.44 billion allocated for Creative Europe 2021-2027, investments are directed towards activities that underscore cultural diversity and address the needs and challenges of the culture and creativity sectors. Through its innovations, the programme aims to propel these sectors towards digital, green, and inclusive horizons.
Split into three distinct threads – Media, Culture, and Cross-Sectoral, the programme celebrated its 30th year of supporting European audiovisual content in 2021, embarking on a new phase for the period 2021-2027. This phase divides support activities into four thematic clusters, based on the objectives they achieve: content, business, audience, and policy.
2. Clár MEDIA: Reinforcing the Strength of the European Creative Industry
The MEDIA strand of the programme focuses on promoting collaboration across the value chain and at the Union level to increase the presence of European audiovisual enterprises and content globally. It encourages the development of advantages wherever they originate and broadens participation and collaboration across countries. It aims to improve the global distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works, taking into account the new digital environment, and supports the participation and development of audiences of all ages, particularly young audiences, across Europe and beyond.
3. Reflecting on the Growth: Clár MEDIA in 2022
Every year, the Commission develops an Annual Work Programme to implement Creative Europe. The budget for Creative Europe 2022 is set at €385.6 million, with €226.5 million earmarked for its MEDIA subprogramme, marking a significant 31% increase compared to 2021.
Aiming to enhance the competitiveness and economic resilience of the audiovisual and news media sector, MEDIA has been strengthened through the introduction of new activities and a focus on increasing collaboration at the Union level. It provides support for co-productions, structured networks, and partnerships.
The digital revolution and COVID-19 crisis have reshaped the creative sector, bringing new issues to the fore as primary challenges, such as the protection of intellectual property, access to funding in a rapidly changing sector, and ensuring fair distribution of works.
Creative Europe aims to target initiatives that could have a significant impact on the sector across Europe. This impact could arise from supporting individual works and projects that promote new skills in the sector or initiatives that favour international collaboration in the sector.
5. Aligning Clár MEDIA with EU Policy Goals
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