PPPA – The European Union – the media freedom hub – 2026

Objectives

• To continue activities of the ongoing Free Media Hub EAST project
• To sustain and improve existing financial and other kinds of support to exiled independent media from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
• To foster coordination and consolidation of a pan-European platform or network of media hubs to promote preservation of a pluralistic media environment
• To create conditions for exiled independent media and journalists to work in the EU so they can continue producing content and distributing it to their audiences without editorial interference

Among financed actions

• Research and mapping
• Financial support to third parties
• Training activities

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal
• A consortium composed of at least 5 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions must be constituted:
  • minimum 3 independent entities from 3 different eligible countries

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 22 and 24 months.

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: CNECT-I1-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 3 million euros
• Amount of the grant: maximum 3 million euros

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate: up to 95% of the total eligible costs