Serbia has become the first non-European Union country to sign up and participate in the European Union’s new Creative Europe programme.
The agreement, which was signed today (June 19) in Brussels by Serbia’s Minister for Culture and Information, Ivan Tasovac, and European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou, will enable Serbian organisations to benefit from funding under Creative Europe’s Culture sub-programme.
Serbia is also expected to join Creative Europe’s Media sub-programme after bringing its audiovisual legislation into line with EU law.
Under the EU’s previous €400m Culture Programme between 2007-2013, Serbian cultural organisations had received around €1.2 m in grants as project leader for some 40 projects selected for EU funding, and dozens more had benefitted from the programme as co-organisers of projects.
Serbia did not participate in the previous Media Programme, but activities organised under the auspices of the former Media Mundus action line were open to Serbian professionals and audiovisual...
The agreement, which was signed today (June 19) in Brussels by Serbia’s Minister for Culture and Information, Ivan Tasovac, and European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou, will enable Serbian organisations to benefit from funding under Creative Europe’s Culture sub-programme.
Serbia is also expected to join Creative Europe’s Media sub-programme after bringing its audiovisual legislation into line with EU law.
Under the EU’s previous €400m Culture Programme between 2007-2013, Serbian cultural organisations had received around €1.2 m in grants as project leader for some 40 projects selected for EU funding, and dozens more had benefitted from the programme as co-organisers of projects.
Serbia did not participate in the previous Media Programme, but activities organised under the auspices of the former Media Mundus action line were open to Serbian professionals and audiovisual...
- 6/19/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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