News Journalism Partnerships Programme – Collaborations

Objectives

• To safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage;
• To increase the competitiveness and the economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.

Goals

• Cross Sectoral Strand
  • Promoting policy cooperation and innovative actions supporting all strands of the Programme, promoting a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment, and media literacy, thereby fostering freedom of artistic expression, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion.

Priorities

• Address the structural and technological changes faced by the media sector by promoting an independent and pluralistic media environment, including by supporting independent monitoring for assessing risks and challenges to media pluralism and freedom, and by supporting awareness-raising activities;
• Support high-quality media production standards by fostering cooperation, digital skills, cross-border collaborative journalism, and quality content, thereby contributing to professional ethics in journalism.

Topic

• “Journalism Partnerships – Collaborations” aims to support the economical sustainability of news media. It supports cross-border media collaborations focusing, among other aspects, on the resilience of news media organisations. This support shall foster media transformation, trustworthy reporting and skills for news media professionals, for instance by developing new business models and media production standards.

Funding Information

• The estimated available call budget is EUR 10524336.
• NEWS – Journalism Partnerships – Collaborations
  • EUR 5266270

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.
  • Creative Europe Participating Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
    • Non-EU countries: Listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme.
  • Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
  • Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.

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