Funding programme

The European Parliament is the legislative branch of the European Union and its communications grants programme provides funding to advance its institutional communication strategy.

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Call overview

This call aims to contribute to resilience in society against disinformation and information manipulation.

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Objective

The EP is looking to co-finance media actions by news agencies television channels, radio stations, digital media and written press. Digital media includes both digital-only media and digital platforms of other media, including content creators that develop news reports and articles, interviews etc. to be distributed on social media platforms.

These media actions should have a two-fold objective:

• ‍Provide regular, reliable, pluralistic and non-partisan information on the political and legislative work of the European Parliament, including information on the implementation of EU legislation, emphasizing its implications in the European citizen’s daily lives. Actions can also include monitoring on the implementation of EU legislation.

• ‍Contribute to resilience in society against disinformation and information manipulation through awareness raising, fact-checking and media literacy.

Applicants must describe in detail in their proposals how they plan to fulfil this two-fold objective.

The potential reach, audience and impact of the action in terms of contributing to raise citizen’s awareness about the European Parliament, to ensure wide dissemination and geographical balance, are key criteria for awarding the grants.

The actions should be multi-platform with an integration of channels including innovative media and formats.

Applicants must prove their current levels of audience in their proposals.

Audience outside the 27 EU Member States will not be considered an asset.

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Activities funded

To be eligible, the activities and projects must meet the objectives and principles of this call and take the appropriate form as set out in section 2. Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds, wholly or in part, to section 2 and this section.

Supported activities may include, but are not limited to:

• TV shows or parts of them, including integration of slots in shows with established viewing figures or in peak times; audience outside the EU27 is not considered in the evaluation.
• Radio programmes, including integration of slots in programmes with established airing figures or in peak times; audience outside EU27 is not considered an asset.
• Reports, news, opinion articles, blogs, debates, interviews, etc. (both in multimedia and written formats), including actions targeting EU-based citizens in non-EU languages.
• Multimedia actions with high views and engagement rates, including distribution via social media, engagement and other forms of interaction with public, including actions targeting EU-based citizens in non-EU languages.
• Actions with a trans-European dimension (cooperation of different media across Europe).
• Actions that contribute to fact-checking and to counter disinformation, providing a high level of audience, including actions targeting EU-based citizens in non-EU languages.
• Polls, data visualisation, surveys and other forms of visual and interactive communication.

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Eligibility

Entities from all EU Member States are eligible.

To be eligible for a grant, applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are:

• A private legal person constituted and registered as legal entity for at least two years at the time of application;
• A legal person established in one of the Member States of the European Union;
• A legal person with no political affiliation.

Proposals by pan-European associations (pan-European association means, for the purpose of this call, an organisation operating in most or all EU Member States) or networks of media should provide a clear commitment from each of the members participating in the action to publish or broadcast part or the totality of the media content produced by the association or network (see section 7.2).

The following entities are not eligible:

• natural persons;
• international organisations and EU bodies;
• public authorities and governmental organisation and bodies.

Read more in the call document.

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Consortium composition

The actions supported under this call are mono-beneficiary actions. This means that only proposals submitted by one single legal entity are eligible. Proposals submitted by a consortium of partners are not eligible.

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Duration

The actions proposed shall have a duration of at least 6 months and take place between September 2025 and March 2027.

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Budget

Total budget: EUR 5 000 000

As an indication, proposals are expected to request a contribution from the European Parliament (maximum grant amount per project) between EUR 30.000 and EUR 150.000.