22 cultural organisations from across the UK have been awarded €1.75m from Creative Europe, the EU’s funding programme to support creative and cultural sectors. The UK’s application success rate of 47% is higher than the European average of 30%, and one in five of all 2020 funded projects has a UK partner.
During the current Creative Europe programme from 2014-20, UK organisations have been awarded a total of €23.8m for Cooperation Projects, but as the UK is not seeking to participate in the EU’s Creative Europe programme from 2021, this was the final round in which they were eligible to participate. From next year UK organisations will only be able to join cross-border Cooperation Projects as Third Country ‘associate partners’, alongside countries such as Canada and Japan,.
To support organisations going forward, Creative Europe Desk UK has published guidance on the UK's Participation in Creative Europe.