Cross-Sectoral

About the Program

The CROSS-SECTORAL strand as a part of the Creative Europe programme facilitates collaboration across creative sectors and covering the news media sector.

The CROSS-SECTORAL strand accounts 9% of the Creative Europe programme budget. 

The CROSS-SECTORAL strand will address:

• Common challenges and opportunities for the cultural and creative sectors.
• For the first time, actions to support the news media sector by promoting media literacy, pluralism and media freedom.

The CROSS-SECTORAL strand’s supporting actions will focus on:

• Transnational policy cooperation: promoting knowledge of the programme and supporting the transferability of results.
• Creative Innovation Labs: promoting innovative approaches to content creation, access, distribution and promotion across cultural and creative sectors.
• News media: supporting media literacy, quality journalism, media freedom and pluralism.