News – Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism

• Eligibility Criteria
  To be eligible for the NEWS – Journalism Partnerships programme, 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-Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism, 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.

Topic

• “Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism”: Besides a purely economic aspect, independent media contribute to upholding the essential principles of media freedom and pluralism. This topic seeks to protect news media sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, such as local and regional media, community media, investigative journalism and organisations delivering public interest news. Support will target organisations with experience in media to put in cascading grants (i.e. regranting / support to third parties).

Funding Information

• The estimated available call budget is EUR 10,524,336.
• Specific budget for the NEWS – Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism programme: EUR 5,258,066

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