NEWS – Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism

• Eligibility Criteria
  To be eligible for the NEWS – Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism, applicants must:
  – Be legal entities (public or private bodies);
  – Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.;
  – Creative Europe Participating Countries:
  – EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  – Non-EU countries: Listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Europe; Armenia; Tunisia
• Application Language: English

The European Commission is seeking applications for its NEWS – Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism under the Creative Europe Programme.

Objectives

• To safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage;
• To increase the competitiveness and the economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.

Goals

Cross Sectoral Strand: Promoting policy cooperation and innovative actions supporting all strands of the Programme, promoting a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment, and media literacy, thereby fostering freedom of artistic expression, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion.

Eligible Activities

• Design and manage a Europe-wide rapid response mechanism to support media freedom and journalists’ safety, covering all EU Member States, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries;
• Provide legal and practical support to journalists and other media practitioners in need;
• Organise advocacy missions to locations where journalists are under threat;
• Monitor the state of media freedom in the EU Member States, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries;
• Organise awareness raising campaigns in the field of media freedom and safety of journalists;
• Ensure communication and dissemination activities;
• Monitor and evaluate the action.

Funding Information

The estimated available call budget is EUR 3,000,000.

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