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Boosting Fact-Checking in Europe
28 28+00:00 June, 2022 @ 8:00 - 17:00
BOOSTING FACT-CHECKING IN EUROPE - 1ST ROUND 2022
financial
newsletter
OPENING
DATE
02-11-2021
DEADLINE
DATE
02-03-2022
SUBMISSION
LANGUAGE
English
MAXIMUM
VALUE
80.000,00 €
PERCENTAGE
OF
FINANCING
100%
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Who?
Proposals from individual entities are eligible if submitted by:
- Small-sized independent fact-checking and news media organisations with up to 50 employees, and up to € 10 million turnover or € 10 million total balance sheet;
- Non-governmental Organisations;
- Research centres;
- Educational institutions;
- Non-profit organisations;
Proposals from consortia are eligible if submitted by:
- Any of the entities mentioned above;
- News media organisations, including for-profit entities of any status or size, on condition that the consortium also integrate one or more entities mentioned above.
What?
Urgent actions: Projects designed to increase coverage, depth, and speed of fact-checking activities by organisations that commit to producing regular flows of fact-checks:
- In connection to critical events (e.g., elections, public health or public security crises, etc.), which may be likely targets of disinformation campaigns in one or more European countries; and/or
- Aimed at improving the detection and understanding of disinformation narratives in topical areas of public interest.
Scale-up projects: free-lance collaborations within newsrooms and/or the integration of state-of-the-art technologies for content verification and media and social media monitoring.
Eligibility
The following types of activities are eligible for both priorities:
- Journalistic investigations and fact-checking activities;
- Production of original content in the form of articles (fact-checks);
- Awareness and dissemination actions, including conferences, seminars, events;
- Actions aiming at the creation and improvement of networks, exchanges of good practices, and uptake of innovative methodologies and relevant technologies.
Additionally, for priority Scale-Up projects, the following types of activities are also eligible:
- Integration of complementary skills via additional human resources in Newsrooms;
- Usage of innovative tools improving the efficiency of fact-checking (e.g., by facilitating online content verification or network analysis).
Funding
Urgent Actions: Max: €55.000/6 Months
Scale-Up Projects: Max: €80.000/12 Months
For Urgent Actions:
- 50% of the grant amount upon signature of the agreement;
- 50% of the grant amount upon approval of the final activity and financial report.
For Scale-up projects:
- 50% of the grant amount upon signature of the agreement;
- 30% of the grant amount upon approval of the interim report;
- 20% of the grant amount upon approval of the final activity and financial report.
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