DIGITAL EUROPE – Accelerating the Best Use of Technologies – 2025

Objectives

• To support the growth of a European network of fact-checkers by enhancing linguistic coverage and strengthening the operational capacity of fact-checking in Europe
• To continue supporting the national Safer Internet Centers (SICs)

Among financed actions

• Establishment of a protection system for fact-checkers
• Creation of a fact-check repository
• Development of an emergency fact-checking response capacity
• Support for third parties to strengthen the capacity of European fact-checkers
• Maintaining an awareness center
• Maintaining a helpline
• Maintaining a hotline for children’s online safety

Eligibility

• 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 3 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS)
    • at least 1 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs)

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action:
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS: between 30 to 36
    months
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs: 36 months
• Contact: 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: 47 million euro
• Budget per topic:
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS – European Network of Fact-Checkers : 5 million euro 
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs – Network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs) : 42 million euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS: betwen 350.000 and 5.000.000 euro
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs: between 300.000 and 700.000 euro
• Funding rate:
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS: 100% for the consortium and co-funding of 50% for the supported third
    party
  • DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs: up to 50% of the total eligible costs