Creative Europe: circulation of European literary works

These grants are for publishing houses that:

• Are legal entities including PE
• Are registered in Ukraine, EU, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, or Tunisia

 
One main applicant has to be registered more than two years ago. 
 

Completed application form that will tell about:

• Team: information about the organisations, CVs or biographies of translators, portfolio of the projects for the last four years. If you apply with partners — a letter of delegation 
• Books that you plan to translate: relevance, target audiences, distribution strategy, sharing the responsibilities in the team and timeline
• Budget 

You can check the templates of application forms on the website. 
 

1. If you are applying for the EU programmes for the first time, get your EU login first.
2. Register your organisation and ask to register all the partners so everyone gets a PIC-number. 
3. Find your contest on the Funding and Tenders Opportunity Portal, complete the online form and upload the required documents. 
 

• You can translate Ukrainian books into English, German, French, Spanish (Castilian) and Italian.
• These are grants only for fiction literature. Autobiographies, biographies, essays without fictional elements, tourist guides, works in the field sciences are not eligible.
• Works must already be published.
• Works must be written by authors who are nationals of, residents in, or recognised as part of the literary heritage of Ukraine, EU, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, or Tunisia.
• Works must not be already translated into the target language, unless a new translation corresponds to a clearly assessed need.
• To find partners in the other countries try to check pan-European networks, offer cooperation to the organisations already supported by Creative Europe, apply to the programme national desk, or publish the announcement on the Funding and Tenders Opportunity Portal. 
• You can check the list of previously supported projects on the website.