Funding

Last updated: 1st November, 2024 EU funding for the games industry is one of the focus areas of EGDF in its advocacy work in Brussels. The full scope of investment in funding calls dedicated explicitly to the games industry or other games industry-related calls for 2024 is as of yet unknown. For more information, please […]

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EGDF summary of the first EIT Culture & Creativity calls The first EIT Culture & Creativity calls are now open! The objective of these calls is to facilitate Europe’s green, digital, and social transitions. The first five open calls are: Talent Scaler (Call 1) mainly targets higher game education institutions interested in building an EIT labelled […]

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Last updated: 29th September, 2023 EU funding for the games industry is one of the focus areas of EGDF in its advocacy work in Brussels. The full scope of investment in funding calls dedicated explicitly to the games industry or other games industry-related calls for 2023 is as of yet unknown. For more information, please […]

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UPDATED 07.07.2022 EGDF celebrates record breaking EU funding for European video game industry  EU funding for the games industry is one of the focus areas of EGDF in its advocacy work in Brussels. In 2022, the European Union will invest roughly 18 million on funding calls dedicated explicitly to the games industry and more than […]

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1. Creative Europe  Creative Europe Call EACEA/06/2019-Bridging culture and audiovisual content through digital Who can apply? The proposal must be submitted by a consortium composed of at least 3 legal entities coming from 3 different countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme What topics the funding focuses on: Projects including an audiovisual and new digital […]

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Unofficial EGDF checklist for applying Creative Europe funding for game development in 2019 A print friendly version of the guidelines can be downloaded from here. Official guidelines and application forms can be accessed here. If you have any feedback or you have spotted any errors in the guidelines, do not hesitate to contact COO of EGDF, Jari-Pekka […]

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Download the full EGDF vision on the future of EU funding for games industry from https://www.egdf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/201801-EuropeanFundingInstruments.pdf  Many thanks to Neogames and Baltic Game Industry project for mapping and summing up different EU funding instruments in a single image. 

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1. Creative Europe  Creative Europe Media funding for training: Funding guidelines are subject to change. This summary is made based on the 2016 call. To who: An organisation from EU or from its neighbor regions (including Iceland and Norway) facilitating the acquisition and improvement of skills and competences of audiovisual professionals and the development of networks including the […]

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1. Grants 1.1 Creative Europe Funding for video game development To who:Any game developer developing a video game concept or project presenting high level of originality, innovative and creative value, cultural diversity and enhanced Europe’s cultural identity and heritage compared to existing mainstream works; high level of commercial ambition and extensive cross-border potential able to […]

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Unofficial EGDF checklist for applying Creative Europe funding for game development in 2018 A print friendly version of the guidelines can be downloaded from here. Official guidelines and application forms can be accessed here. If you have any feedback or you have spotted any errors in the guidelines, do not hesitate to contact COO of EGDF, Jari-Pekka […]

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