DG CONNECT – Multimedia Actions – EU digital reporting – 2024

Objectives

• To provide citizens with a wide choice of online news content, leveraging Europe’s diversity as an asset for democracy and pluralism
• To help news media organisations prepare and present digital news content on EU affairs in as many languages and Member States as possible, and potentially on a pan-EU basis
• To support media players in establishing and/or developing online news platforms across the EU and in enhancing EU citizens’ access to reliable digital information, in particular about EU affairs

Priorities

• Priority 1: To produce news content of pan-European interest, thereby increasing the variety and diversity of factual content accessible to EU citizens
  • Sub-priority 1: To contribute to an informed debate and foster a shared European public sphere
  • Sub-priority 2: To offer the same content in as many EU Member States as possible
• Priority 2: To develop distribution mediums such as web portals, apps, plug-ins, newsletters, social media, etc., and consider ways to enhance organic direct traffic, rather than hosting the content exclusively on third-party platforms
• Priority 3: To show and explain the applicable guidelines and editorial standards

Among financed actions

• 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

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)
• Be: News media organisations, other organisations active in the media domain or technology developers
• Be a singe applicant or a consortium

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 18 and 24 months
• Contact: CNECT-NEWSMEDIA@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: 5 million euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 2.7 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 95% of the total eligible costs