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Creative Europe is the EU’s funding programme for providing support to the culture and audiovisual sectors.
This topic will support cross-cutting actions that address the structural and technological changes faced by the media sector.
The European news media sectors play a crucial and valuable role in Europe. Yet, they are facing multiple challenges. Partially as a result of the digital shift, with readers shifting to online sources and traditional news outlets losing advertising revenues, the economic sustainability of professional journalism has come under pressure. Media pluralism has also been weakened over the years: many media at the local level as well as those putting their public interest mission before profits, have had to close down, posing risks for the good functioning of democracy.
Topic 1. “Journalism Partnerships - Collaborations”. Helping the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, thus contributing to trustworthy reporting, to skills development and employment for news media professionals and journalists, in particular by supporting media collaborations. This topic will support cross-cutting actions that address the structural and technological changes faced by the media sector, and support high-quality media production standards and business models by fostering cooperation, digital skills, cross-border and/or collaborative journalism.
Proposals should cover one or more of the following priorities: Collaborative business transformation, and/or Collaborative journalistic projects. Overlapping activities combining both priorities may be included.
Priority 1: Fostering collaborative business transformationProjects could aim to develop, inter alia, better revenue models, management models, new approaches to audience development and marketing, development of common professional/technical standards, new types of newsrooms, syndication networks or other models to exchange content between news media across the EU, or provide assistance to small organisations to develop business readiness. To this end, projects can include events, online trainings and workshops for media professionals, exchange programmes, mapping of best practices, sector-wide development of technical standards, production of practical guidebooks, development and testing of platforms and technical solutions to exchange ideas and best practices, promotional activities, or other activities that aim to uphold the viability of the sector. Applicants should propose activities supporting media sectors lacking the means of adapting to the digital environment.
Priority 2: Fostering collaborative journalism projects Professional collaboration can increase efficiency and the quality of reporting. Projects can therefore test original reporting and innovative production methods and formats. Projects can aim to increase exchanges of best practices among journalists and optimise workflows for those journalism genres requiring more time and resources. To this end projects can include events, online trainings and workshops for journalists, collaborative development of guidelines and editorial standards, exchange programmes, online mentoring schemes, financial support to collaborative journalism projects, promotional activities or other activities that aim to uphold quality and diversity of journalism. Whenever editorial production is included, actions will respect the editorial independence of the media and emphasise the importance of proper and joint editorial arrangements.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) , which complies with the following conditions:
EUR 2.000.000 per project.
Projects should not normally exceed 24 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).
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