DIGITAL EUROPE – Accelerating the best use of technologies – 2024

Objectives

• To support an independent multidisciplinary community to contribute to the fight against disinformation through the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)
• To finance the work of independent national or regional hubs for analysis of digital media ecosystems in order to ensure the coverage of geographical areas covered by the EDMO hubs for which the funding is ending at the end of 2024 and in 2025

Among financed actions

• Reinforce the EDMO network
• Detect, fact-check and disclose harmful disinformation camapigns
• Analyse harmful disinformation campaigns
• Conduct and support tailor-made and media literacy campaigns
• Contribute to the monitoring of online platforms’ policies to tackle
• Foster the growth of a strong national and regional multidisciplinary community disinformation
• Communicate and reach out through various channels to a broad audience

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 Digital Europe Programme (Click here)
• A consortium composed of at least 2 independent entities must be constituted
• The coordinator of the consortium must be established in an EU Member
  State to be covered by the hub
• The members of the consortium must demonstrate their independence from public authorities
• At least one of the consortium applicants must be an independent fact-checking organisation or a fact-checking unit from an independent media organisation with proven fact-checking activities in the last 12 months. The consortium must have fact-checking services covering all the geographical area of the hub

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 30 and 36 months
• To find your National Contact Point: Click here

Useful

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

• Total budget of the call: 8 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 1 million and 1.3 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs (up to 75% for SMEs)