PPPA – Citizen facing European TV and Video News Portal – 2026

Objective

To develop, integrate and operate a pilot pan-European multilingual AI media infrastructure (a common backbone of reusable services, interfaces and interoperability specifications).

Priorities

• Priority 1: Media Platforms coordination group for synergies and future scale-up
• Priority 2: Core pan-European infrastructure backbone and interoperability
• Priority 3: Onboarding and ingestion interfaces for media providers
• Priority 4: AI-enabled media processing, reuse and access tools
• Priority 5: Trust, provenance, compliance and real-world piloting for sustainable scale-up

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal
• A consortium composed of at least 5 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 5 different eligible countries must be constituted.

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: up to 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: CNECT-I4@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: 5.5 million euros
• Amount of the grant: up to 5.5 million euros

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate: up to 80% of the total eligible costs