The European Commission has published the work program for the year 2023 for the implementation of the activities of the Creative Europe program with a budget of EUR 311,700,980.

In 2023, Creative Europe will continue to be the EU's mechanism for contributing to European policy initiatives relevant to the cultural and creative sectors, aligned with the objectives of the 2018 New European Agenda for Culture.

The Creative Europe program will provide financial support for the implementation of activities, which will cover current topics such as recovery and resilience of the cultural and creative sectors, working conditions of artists, challenges related to digitization, climate change, gender equality, sustainability, culture and well-being, and international cultural relations. The new mobility scheme for artists and cultural workers (Culture Moves Europe), which in 2022 became part of the standard calls within the Culture sub-programme to ensure the legacy of the European Year of Youth, will continue, through residencies and local cultural programs , to contribute to the goals of the New European Bauhaus.

Subprogram Culture in 2023.
The Culture sub-programme will continue with standard calls and activities aimed at developing cultural policies and fostering cooperation, and will also cover new priorities, such as supporting Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors, and contribute to high-level initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus. In the program for 2023, several calls are expected with a specific goal, namely:

FLIP (Finance, Innovation, Learning and Patenting/IPR) Policy Project Grant call, the aim of which is to develop joint responses to the challenges faced by experts from the cultural and creative sector, in order to support the collection of information, the testing of innovative approaches and the connection of the sector with creating policies through joint workshops and other activities;
Cooperation with international council of museums (ICOM) - support for activities to protect cultural heritage institutions from theft and robbery, which is an integral part of the Action Plan against the trade in cultural goods, which will be adopted by the end of the year; during this year;
European Spaces of Culture, as a special invitation, is a continuation of the European Parliament's preparatory action of the same name, whose goal is to find new ways of cooperation in cultural relations, following the principles that reflect the EU's strategy for international cultural relations.
Announcements of calls for 2023 for cooperation projects and literary translations are expected in November of this year.

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