Creative Europe for micro-organisaitons
We are preparing an important meeting (mid November) with the Education, Culture and Audiovisual Executive Agency of the European Union on the future Creative Europe 2021-2027, more specifically - on how the programme can serve better micro-organisations (< 10 employees). Please share with us your experiences with handling a CE application (successfully or not), managing a CE project, and any ideas on how the programme can be made more accessible for smaller payers (organisations employing < 10 people). Join the conversation here or talk to me and Nan at IETM Munich on Friday, 2 November, 17:00 - 18:00 at Bistro le copain (ground floor of the Gasteig). Thank you in advance!
Hello!
I am intersted in that topic as we ourselves applied without success. But I cannot be in Munich.
Can you keep me informed?
Best wishes
artscenico
Rolf Dennemann
orga@rtscenico.de
Hello,
We just finished a two years project with creative europe. The finantial pressure regarding guarantees are too hard on small size organizations. Instead of promoting acess to larger scale production you are always being reminded that you do not have the scale wich would enable you to get the money in the right timing. Being that an invitation for small scale organizations to drop out and leaving more ressources to bigger organizations inside the partnership (the ones with bigger cashflow and so more able to wait for the money).
Thanks for the info, I would be happy to share ideas about this - we have had some successful but a lot more unsuccessful applications. I lead a workshop until 5pm on 2 Nov, so I guess I'll be running late but wil definitely come.
Thanks for the message. Yes, I will join! see you soon.
Very happy to join you for the conversation.
Hello,
Unfortunately I cannot attend the meeting but I would be grateful if you could keep me updated on this.
I have to reiterate Carlos's comment regarding the financial pressure. In my experience, it was impossible to secure bank guarantees as a small organisation, which meant that we received no pre-financing, which in turn placed the additional burden of running the project using other funds and struggling in our negotiations with contractors until we received payment at the end of the 2 years.
I would also add that the application process overall places too much of a burden on small organisations that cannot possibly have one member of the team putting everything on hold to deal exclusively with a CE application, nor of course easily allocate funds to recruit someone just for this purpose. I think it would make sense to have different processes for smaller and larger organisations - then again, we should be careful about how we define small/large: by number of employees? by annual operating budget? by programme and frequency of activities? by a combination of some or all of those (or others)?
These are just some thoughts and unfortunately the message is already too long - apologies for this. Keep us posted!
Dear all,
Thanks for your ideas - submitted here and shared with us during IETM Munich. Nicky has raised the issue of defining "micro-organisations" (see the comment above), and this issue of definition has come up a few times during the chats we had in Munich.
The official EU definition of a "micro-enterprise" is the following:
"Micro-enterprises are defined as enterprises that employ fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million."
The definition of "employee":
"National labour rules apply. These vary from country to country, for instance, for temporary staff working as independent contractors or on hire from an interim employment agency"
What do you think about this definition in relation to our sector? Could it be the basis for defining a "micro-organisation" within the Creative Europe programme?
Thank you all for your input!