Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe

• Eligibility Criteria:
  – Applicants shall be legal entities employing fact-checkers and abiding by recognised ethical and professional standards.
• Type of funding: Grant
• Target countries: Europe
• Application language: English

The Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe Call aims to support projects from independent fact-checking organisations, which play a key role in limiting the negative effects of disinformation on the public discourse and democratic processes.

In the context of the ongoing Russia – Ukraine conflict this Call for Proposals is currently accepting applications that contemplate collaborations with fact-checking and media organisation and/or journalists operating in Ukraine. 

The following types of actions are supported under this call as a means of strengthening the fact-checking ecosystem:

• Urgent actions: projects designed to increase coverage, depth, and speed of fact-checking activities by organisations that commit to producing regular flows of fact-checks. These actions may have a duration of up to 6 months and receive a grant of up to €55,000.
• Scale-up projects: free-lance collaborations within newsrooms and/or the integration of state-of-the-art technologies for content verification and media and social media monitoring. These actions may have a duration of up to 12 months and receive a grant up to €80,000.

The Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe Call is permanently open until June 2025 and its total indicative allocation is €4 350 000. Applications may be submitted at any time and three funding rounds occur every year, in February, June, and October.

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