Creative Europe | Journalism Partnerships | Call for Proposals

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December 01, 2022
The Commission continues to support the resilience of the news media sector with a third call for Journalism Partnerships.

This year, the scope of the financing has been enlarged with a second action and the budget has been increased to €10 million.

This year’s Journalism Partnerships call for proposals is composed of two actions: a first one to increase collaborations between media by stimulating innovation in business models and in editorial processes, and a second one to support media pluralism and media of  particular relevance to democracy and civic participation.

First action: collaborations
Half of the budget will follow the logic of previous calls and support cross-border collaboration among news media organisations in Europe, to work on business model transformation and/or journalistic projects with full editorial independence. The proposed activities should be clearly presented and justified, and should be based on the needs of the chosen (sub)sector(s).
  • Consortia should gather at least 3 partners from at least 3 different countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme.
  • The EU would finance 80% of the cost of projects, and the maximum individual grant amount is €2 million.
  • All projects should last 24 months.
Second action: pluralism
As a novelty, the other half of the budget will be dedicated to organisations offering grants to media of particular relevance to democracy and civic participation, in particular:
  • local and regional media,
  • independent and investigative journalism,
  • organisations delivering public interest news/public service journalism, such as community, legal and civic journalism and media, or news increasing transparency about the media.
In addition to grants, projects can also offer trainings and/or develop other measures that benefit their chosen sector/s, such as the development of deontological standards, criteria and indicators to frame support, etc…
  • Proposals can be submitted by consortia or single organisations (such as non-profit organisations, but not exclusively).
  • The EU would finance 90% of the cost of projects, and the maximum individual grant amount is €3 million.
  • All projects should last 24 months.
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