Eurimages

Eurimages is the Council of Europe's cultural support fund for European cinematographic co-production. Distinct from any treaty — Eurimages is the money that supports co-productions that have already qualified via either the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production or a bilateral treaty between member states.

Ireland has been a member of Eurimages since 1992.

What Eurimages funds

The headline instrument is the co-production support — direct funding for an approved European co-production, typically 17% of the production budget capped at €500,000 (the cap varies; verify current rates).

Co-production Development Award (CDA)

Eurimages operates a Co-production Development Award — a discrete €20,000 prize given to projects selected at three specific markets:

A project selected at any of these three markets automatically qualifies for CDA consideration. Eurimages publishes the CDA-eligible projects after each market.

Eligibility

For a co-production to access Eurimages funding:

• The project must be a cinematographic feature film, animation feature, or documentary feature — short films and TV are out of scope (Eurimages is a theatrical instrument)
• Two or more Eurimages member states must be co-producing
• The project must have secured co-production status under either the European Convention or an applicable bilateral treaty
• 40% confirmed financing at the point of application (recently raised — verify current threshold)

Member states (selected)

Eurimages has 40 member states (as of 2026-05-04). Notable Irish co-pro partners that are Eurimages members:

Ireland · France · Germany · Spain · Italy · Belgium · Netherlands · Sweden · Denmark · Czech Republic · Hungary · Poland · Norway · Switzerland · Austria · Portugal · Greece · Finland · Lithuania · Slovenia · Croatia

UK is NOT a member — UK left Eurimages on 31 December 2022.

Verify the current member-states list against the Council of Europe website before structuring.

Ireland's representative

Ireland's representative on Eurimages is Emma Scott (as of 2026-05). The representative votes on funding decisions at the regular Eurimages plenary sessions.

How applications work

Eurimages and state aid

Eurimages funding is not considered EU state aid (per current European Commission position). This is significant for the EU 50% state-aid cumulation cap — Eurimages support stacks on top of state-aid funding without counting toward the cap.

See State Aid — the EU cumulation cap and its mitigations for the cumulation framework.

How Togra supports this

Eurimages is tracked under Soft money for state-aid cumulation (excluded from the cap per the position above). The Co-Production Structurer runs the eurimages scheme scorer which checks party-eligibility against the Eurimages member-states list, financial-band, and party-count thresholds. Eurimages does not appear in the Funder Rounds picker as a deadline-driven round because Eurimages assessments happen at plenary cadence, not via the producer-call mechanism the SI funder-rounds surface models.