Call for proposals: EU Digital Reporting

• Eligibility Criteria
  – Applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies);
  – Applicants must be established in one of the EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs).
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Europe
• Application Language: English

The European Commission (EC) is inviting proposals for its EU Digital Reporting to provide citizens with larger choices of quality online news content, by supporting the production and distribution of digital news content on EU affairs.

The call has the objective to support media players in establishing and/or developing online news platforms across the EU, and to enhance EU citizens’ access to reliable digital information, in particular about EU affairs.

For the purpose of this funding, in addition to news content on the main EU institutions, the definition of EU affairs may include:

• general economic, political, and cultural affairs, demonstrating how different EU countries address the same issues;
• regional and national decisions that have the potential to influence opinions on the EU and impact daily lives in other EU countries;
• economic, political, and cultural affairs from individual Member States, illustrating to those living in other countries how issues of common concern are addressed.
• This call targets the provision of diverse, multilingual digital news content across the European Union.

Eligible Funding Activities

The following types of activities are eligible under this EU Digital Reporting call:

• Editorial online projects, content production, curation and dissemination.
• Coordination and editorial supervision, governance, management, technical and editorial workflows, staff, control systems.
• Setup, maintenance and/or development of technical delivery, distribution and transmission systems (via digital platforms, websites and tools, etc.).
• Advertising, promotion, awareness and outreach actions.
• Data studies and research related to the editorial needs, technical components and audience measurement.

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 5,000,000.
• The Commission expects to fund two projects. The maximum grant amount per project is set at EUR 2,700,000. This is a maximum ceiling, and it does not preclude the submission/selection of a proposal requesting a lower amount.
• The EU co-financing is limited to a maximum co-funding rate of 95% of the total eligible costs.
• Projects should have a duration of between 18 and 24 months.

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