Deadline: 26-Jan-23
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for its Media actions EE24.
Scope
- This is a call for EU action grants for communication activities in the field of media managed by the DG Communication of the European Parliament, ahead of the 2024 European Elections.
- The purpose of this call for proposal is to award grants co-financing 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.
Objectives
These media actions must have a two-fold objective:
- Providing regular, reliable, pluralistic and non-partisan information on the forthcoming 2024 European Elections, as well as on the political and legislative work of the European Parliament (inter alia: recovery plan Next Generation EU, European Green Deal, European Digital Economy, Europe in the world, Future of Europe, rule of law, etc.), emphasizing its implications in the European citizen’s daily lives.
- Promoting participation and engaging citizens and civil society organisations in the debate on the forthcoming 2024 European Elections, by organising online and off-line events, public consultations, surveys, etc.
Funding Information
The indicative available budget for this call is EUR 8 000 000.
Eligible Activities
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).
- Multimedia actions with high views and engagement rates, including distribution via social media, engagement and other forms of interaction with public.
- 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 minorities in non-EU languages.
- Actions that promote participation and engagement of citizens and civil society organisations in the debate on the forthcoming 2024 European Elections, both off and online.
- Events that contribute to the EU effort to raise awareness about the Elections and the importance to vote by organising calls to action, public consultations, surveys, etc.
- Polls, data visualisation, surveys and other forms of visual communication.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entities from all EU Member States are eligible.
- To be eligible for a grant, applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are a legal person:
- constituted and registered as legal entity for at least two years at the time of application;
- based in one of the Member States of the European Union;
- with nonpartisan political affiliation.
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