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

2025-12-02
5.985.000 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference PPPA-2025-DISINFORMATION
Programme Pilot Projects & Preparation Actions (PPPA)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training Research & Innovation Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries All beneficiaries

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Call reference

PPPA-2025-DISINFORMATION



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Priorities and funded actions

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

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 5.985.000 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: 3.100.000 million euros
  • Funding rate : up to 85%