Skills-based continuous professional development courses for the audiovisual media sector - EIT Culture & Creativity Business Plan 2026

¿De qué trata esta convocatoria?

The call funds short, outcome-oriented online professional development courses for the audiovisual media sector in intellectual property, artificial intelligence and digital storytelling. Legal entities in EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated countries can apply alone or with partners.

¿Qué financia esta convocatoria?

Scope

The call supports specialised, skills-based Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for the audiovisual media sector. The courses are designed to have an immediate impact on participants' careers by improving their professional skills, opening new job opportunities and sparking innovation projects within their organisations.

Thematic focus

The call focuses on proposals within three strategic strands: intellectual property, artificial intelligence and digital storytelling.

Course requirements

• Courses must be shorter, focused, granular and outcome-oriented.
• They must be designed mainly for asynchronous online delivery in English, to suit the schedules of working professionals.
• Proposals are required to show a practice-oriented teaching approach that encourages critical reflection on technological ethics and digital sovereignty.
• Applicants must define specific, measurable learning outcomes and a balanced assessment strategy showing how participants use the new skills in a professional context.

Application and evaluation

Applicants submit an application form, a budget plan with the EIT Culture & Creativity funding template, and a Gantt chart with the project timeline and work packages through the electronic submission platform. Proposals go through an admissibility and eligibility check, an external quality evaluation by three independent experts against the award criteria (including the Horizon Europe award criteria), and a portfolio selection by the EIT Culture & Creativity Selection Committee covering strategic fit, financial sustainability and Knowledge Triangle Integration.

¿Cuándo termina el plazo?

The call header gives 30 October 2026 as the deadline, while the call description states that applications must be submitted between 20 July 2026 and 14 September 2026, 17:00 CEST (Berlin time). Evaluation is indicatively planned from September to November 2026, with results expected by the end of November 2026 and agreement signature planned for December 2026 to January 2027.