Eurimages maintains a pool of independent external experts comprising professionals from the film and audiovisual industry who may be called upon to evaluate projects submitted to the Fund under its support programmes and to provide recommendations.

The current pool was selected for a period of three years (2025-2027) and came into effect on 1 January 2025.

Experts were selected by the Eurimages Secretariat based on criteria defined by the Board of Management and published in the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Committee. The Secretariat examined the candidates' curricula vitae and their responses to the online questionnaire to select the future experts best qualified to meet the Fund's needs. The Board of Management approved the list of experts to be included in the pool for the 2025-2027 period, and a framework contract was signed with each expert.

Candidates were selected based on their extensive experience in the international film industry, particularly in feature films produced as international co-productions. They had also to demonstrate at least five years of proven experience in either co-production, distribution, international sales, screenwriting and analysis, directing, programming for international festivals, or project selection for international co-production markets. Finally, candidates had also to demonstrate language skills as defined by the Board of Management and hold the nationality of an Eurimages member state (including an associate member state) or be a permanent resident in one of these states.

A new selection process will be organised in the second half of 2027 to establish the next pool. Information will be made available to candidates during 2027.

The guidelines that can be downloaded in the "documents" section below give a complete overview of the functioning of the external experts: selection, mission, financial and administrative conditions, etc.

For information, the dates for the next meetings of the expert working groups which will assess the applications for co-production support are available here. The first selection of experts for each evaluation session takes place approximately ten days after  the application deadline and the final selection of experts will be confirmed approximately three weeks after this deadline. Experts who have signed a framework contract with Eurimages, but who have not been contacted during this period, will in principle not be asked to assess applications for support during the evaluation session in question. They will however remain part of the pool of experts.

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