Grants to Support for Independent Media in Serbia

Deadline: 10-May-22

The European Commission is calling for proposals to support for independent media in Serbia.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is to support independent media and media organisations in contributing to the implementation and independent monitoring of the Media Strategy of Serbia including enhanced media ethics.
• The specific objective of this call for proposals are:
  • To support original and innovative media activities in Serbia with a special focus on highly relevant topics of the National Media Strategy. This should be achieved by using the best mix of available technologies to create modern, innovative digital formats and multimedia platforms including social media. The purpose is to engage the widest possible audiences on issues that directly affect them. Partnerships with local media are encouraged.

Priority Areas

The priorities of this call for proposals are:

• To support media and media organisations to develop innovative distinctive formats by using a variety of platforms and developing essential content relevant to their own work and cooperation among them including working conditions, the safety of journalists and other media professionals;
• To support quality media coverage of issues that interest all age groups and have a strong impact on people’s lives, including the impact of disinformation;
• To create Multimedia/multi-platform content, including interactive elements such as mobile journalism, multimedia content, livestreams to help distribute content and maximise outreach even if the primary platform is one of the traditional media.

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,000,000.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 100,000
  • maximum amount: EUR 250,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be legal persons.
    • be a specific type of organisation such as: print/electronic/on-line media, news agencies, media.
    • production houses and/or media associations.
    • be established in the Republic of Serbia.
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s), affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
• Co-applicant(s) 
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself.
  • In addition to the categories, the following are however also eligible:
    • Civil society organisations;
    • Cultural and educational institutions;
    • Co-applicants must sign the mandate.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies).
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to coapplicant(s):
    • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      • Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association,) as the proposed affiliated entities.

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