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Overview
| Donor: | European Commission - CREA |
| Application procedure: | Full Proposal |
| Donor base: | Belgium |
| Reference number: | CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-PLURALISM |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
| Deadline: | 27.02.2025 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Medium - up to $1,000,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | - |
| Total available budget: | 5.258.066€ |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | - |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Arts & Culture
- Capacity Building
- Governance & Democracy
- Media & Journalism
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
Africa
Tunisia
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Description
1) Objective
Expected results
- Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
- Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
- Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
- Increased resilience, pluralism and editorial independence at EU level of sectors such as local, regional and community media, investigative media or media specialised in public interest topics.
- Increased resilience of organisations active in the targeted news media sectors and protection of the news media landscape.
- Improved uptake of new technologies across the targeted media sectors in as much this contributes to media pluralism and a diverse media landscape.
- Fostering repositories of knowledge about media sectors delivering public interest news (e.g. by detecting areas with low provision of high-quality content and/or in which media pluralism is strained).
This topic covers media sectors that are particularly relevant for democracy. Certain sectors having an important role for democratic debate lack the means to adapt to the digital environment, and phenomena such as shrinking newsrooms or media deserts can lead to a deterioration of pluralism. Support is thus needed for them to improve their position, adapt their methods, continue providing a first-hand source of original reporting to citizens, help keep decision-makers accountable and ultimately contribute to a more diverse and independent sector.
2) Eligibility
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
3) Location
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
4) Budget
The estimated available call budget is €5,258,066.
5) Application
The application deadline is 27 February 2025. All proposals must be submitted directly online via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System.