CREATIVE EUROPE – Journalism Partnerships – 2025

Objectives

• To promote cross-sectoral activities that aim at adjusting to the structural and technological changes faced by the media, including enhancing a free, diverse, and pluralistic media environment, quality journalism and media, literacy including in the digital environment
• To support the economical sustainability of news media
• 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

Priorities

• Priority 1: To develop collaborative transformation, from a business, technological and/or production point of view
• Priority 2: To develop, inter alia, better revenue and monetisation models, new approaches to audience development, community-building and marketing, development of common professional/technical standards, new types of newsrooms, syndication networks or other models to exchange content/data between news media across the EU, or provide assistance to small media organisations
• Priority 3: To increase efficiency and the quality of reporting through innovative journalistic collaborations
• Priority 4: To increase exchanges of best practices among journalists and optimise workflows for those journalism genres requiring more time and resources
• Priority 5: To put in place funding schemes for news media entities and independent journalism

Among financed actions

• Events, online trainings and workshops for media professionals, exchange programmes, mentoring schemes, mapping of best practices, sector-wide development of technical standards, development of guidelines and editorial standards, production of practical guidebooks, development and testing of platforms and technical solutions to exchange ideas and best practices, promotional activities, or other activities that aim to uphold the viability of the sector
• Innovations in editorial production (e.g. formats, content), coverage and revenue models
• The improvement of distribution and dissemination of news
• The development and engagement of audiences and community-building
  strategies
• The development of technical tools applying to the above topics
• Training on the above topics

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (Click here)
• A consortium composed of
  • at least 3 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS)
  • at least 2 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-PLURALISM)

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months
• Contact: EACEA-CREATIVE-EUROPE-JOURNALISM-PARTNERSHIPS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 10.524.336 euro
• Budget per topic:
  • CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS: 5.266.270 euro
  • CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-PLURALISM: 5.258.066 euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS: up to 2 million euro
  • CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-PLURALISM: up to 2.5 million euro
• Funding rate:
  • CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS: up to 80% of the total eligible costs
  • CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-PLURALISM: up to 90% of the total eligible costs