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CREATIVE EUROPE – NEWS – Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism – 2025

CREA - Creative Europe aims at preserving, developing, and promoting European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage and to increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.

2025-01-15
3 million euro
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Appeal framework

Call reference CREA-CROSS-2025-MFP
Program Creative Europe Programme (CREA)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training Justice, Security, Defence Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) Media & cultural organisation Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) Training organisation & school

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Call reference

CREA-CROSS-2025-MFP



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Priorities and funded actions

Objective

To promote cross-sectoral activities aiming at adjusting to the structural changes faced by the media sector, including enhancing a free, diverse, and pluralistic media environment, quality journalism and media literacy including in the digital environment.

Priority

To address the structural and technological changes faced by the media sector by promoting an independent and pluralistic media environment, including by supporting independent monitoring for assessing risks and challenges to media pluralism and freedom, and by supporting awareness-raising activities.

Among financed actions

  • Design and manage a Europe-wide rapid response mechanism to support
    media freedom and journalists’ safety, covering all EU Member States, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries
  • Provide legal and practical support to journalists and other media practitioners in need
  • Organise advocacy missions to locations where journalists are under threat
  • Monitor the state of media freedom in the EU Member States, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries
  • Organise awareness raising campaigns in the field of media freedom and
    safety of journalists
  • Ensure communication and dissemination activities
  • Monitor and evaluate the action

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 of at least 2 independent entities from 2 different eligible countries must be constituted

Additional information

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

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 3 million euro
  • Amount of the grant: No limit
  • Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs

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