PPPA – Building a trustworthy social media sphere: countering disinformation on social media for young Europeans – 2025

Objectives

• To enhance young people’s awareness of the threats to information integrity, such as disinformation, manipulation, and artificial content
• To create and disseminate engaging, multilingual content across the EU
• To involve influencers and young people in a participatory content creation process
• To build partnerships between influencers and information integrity professionals
• To evaluate and share best practices on promoting trustworthy content

Priorities

• Priority 1: to design a participatory process involving young Europeans and influencers
• Priority 2: to produce youth-oriented content related to the threats to information integrity and ways to counter them
• Priority 3 : to develop a wide, cross-national and inclusive media literacy campaign
• Priority 4 : to ensure compliance with ethical guidelines and standards on information integrity

Among financed actions

• Organisation of events (pop-up production workshops, side events or interactive booths at youth festivals, kick-off and closing events)
• Production and European-wide distribution of multilingual content
• Community–influencer engagement hubs
• A pan-European collaboration network
• A continuous impact evaluation and optimisation loop

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)
• A consortium composed of at least 7 applicants, established in at least 7 different eligible countries must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 18 and 24 months
• Contact: : CNECTI4@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: 5.985.000 million euros
• Amount of the grant: 3.100.000 million euros
• Funding rate : up to 85%