CROSS-SECTOR SUPPORT In addition to MEDIA and Culture sub-programmes, Creative Europe has a cross-sector strand that offers support for the creative sector as a whole through one-off funding calls and a Guarantee Facility. This allows Creative Europe to strengthen collaboration across industry silos, promote innovation and respond in an agile way to the opportunities and challenges faced by the creative sectors. Under the Cross-sectoral Strand, Creative Europe supports several activities, in particular: • • • • •
The Creative Europe Desks, which provide assistance to potential applicants and are well placed to foster cross-sectoral collaboration Studies and data analysis, in cooperation with the European Audiovisual Observatory and under the European Agenda for Culture Communication activities to increase awareness and raise the visibility of Creative Europe Policy cooperation and innovation by empowering players to work cross-sectorally Cross-sectoral projects with participants from audiovisual combined with other cultural sectors such as publishing, music or museums.
VIBE (Visions By Experience) is an innovative project exploring wearable haptic technology funded under the call “Bridging culture and audiovisual content through digital”. Image by Elisava Research (Fundacio Privada Elisava Escola Universitaria).
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