Creative Export Canada – Export Ready Stream
Receive up to $2.5M in Creative Export Funding.
The Creative Export Canada – Export Ready Stream offers funding for projects that generate export revenues and help Canadian Creative Industries reach more people around the world.
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Creative Export Canada – Export Ready Stream
Amount of Funding
Access up to 75% of eligible expenses to a maximum of $2.5M in government contribution.
Creative Export Canada – Export Ready Stream
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible for this program, applicants must be:
- For-profit or not-for-profit organizations;
- Maximum of $500M in annual revenues;
- Minimum of one full-time employee; and
- Canadian-owned and -controlled.
*A portion of the stream’s funding will be reserved for companies where at least 50% of the owners and/or board members self identify as Indigenous people and/or members or equity deserving communities.
Creative Export Canada – Export Ready Stream
Eligible Activities
Projects must be centred around export-ready (content* is ready to be marketed, export research/plan is fully developed), and expect to generate new export revenues.
Support one or more of the following creative industries:
- Artistic craft
- Audiovisual
- Design (limited to exhibit design, fashion design, artistic product design, public art design, urban design)
- Music
- Performing arts
- Publishing
- Visual art
- Interactive digital media (in combination with one of the industries listed above)
Projects must also have a minimum total cost of $150,000 and the applicant must hold the intellectual property rights for content.
Creative Export Canada – Export Ready Stream
Program Deadline
The application deadline is April 26, 2023. Projects must start between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024.
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