Funding programme

The European Union’s Multimedia Actions therefore aim to engage the public in EU policy-making by informing them about European issues from pan-European points of view, going beyond local or national angles. Activities under this budget line support producing and disseminating independent news and programmes on EU affairs with full editorial independence.

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Call overview

The aim of the call is to support projects which set up or expand media hubs (such as newsrooms) to provide Europeans with quality content on European affairs.

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Call details

this call proposes to support news media organisations and organisations active in the media sector to form or develop European-level media hubs (such as virtual or physical newsrooms).  These would produce and disseminate pluralistic and appealing news media content (possibly including other informative, non-fictional and factual programming) on European affairs across Europe. Applicants are invited to make content available in as many European languages as possible (with a minimum of 5 official EU languages). The grant agreement will include a charter of independence to make sure that applicants are editorially free and operate without any political interference.

The added value of such hubs would be to go beyond local/national/regional perspectives and integrate viewpoints from all over the EU, with a view to creating a common understanding of our continental challenges and opportunities and fuel a more democratic debate.

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Activities that can be funded

The following types of activities are eligible under this call for proposals:

• Editorial projects, content production, curation and dissemination and related activities
• Coordination and editorial supervision
• Journalistic research activities, such as data gathering
• Setup and organisation of collaborative digital or physical workspaces
• Building/maintaining a suitable technical web-platform and tools for publication and technical transmission.
• Supporting activities (e.g. promotions, trainings, data studies)
• Setup and organisation of collaborative digital or physical workspaces
• Building/maintaining a suitable technical web-platform and tools for publication and technical transmission.
• Supporting activities (e.g. promotions, trainings, data studies)

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Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) and be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

• EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• non-EU countries as mentioned in the work programme: candidate countries or potential candidate countries

The coordinator must be established in an EU Member State. Proposals may be submitted by any of the following applicants or combinations of:

- news media organisations

- Other organisations active in media (private or public)

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Consortium composition

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 5 applicants (beneficiaries, affiliated entities and other participants are allowed, if needed but affiliated entities do not count for the minimum number of applicants), which complies with the following conditions:

• minimum 5 entities from 5 different eligible countries

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Duration

Projects should have an approximate duration of 24 months.

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Budget

The Commission expects to fund 2 to 3 projects. Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to range between EUR 1.5 million to EUR 4 million per project but this does not preclude the submission/selection of proposals requesting lower amounts.