NEWS - Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism (CREA-CROSS-2025-MFP)
Opening Date24-10-2024
Deadline Date15-01-2025
Submission LanguageEnglish
Maximum Value3.000,000,00 €
Percentage of Financing90%
StatusClosed
StatusClosed
Who
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 or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
Consortium composition
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
- minimum two independent entities from two different eligible countries
- Proposals may be submitted by any of the following applicants or combinations of: non-profit organisation (private or public); international organisations; universities; educational institutions; research centres.
What
Scope
The European Democracy Action Plan stresses that physical and online threats and attacks on journalists are on the rise in several Member States and proposes sustainable funding for projects with a focus on legal and practical assistance to journalists in the EU and elsewhere, including safety and cybersecurity training for journalists and diplomatic support. The Commission’s annual Rule of Law Report refers to physical and online threats and attacks on journalists as a persistent issue across Europe. In September 2021 the Commission adopted a Recommendation on ensuring the protection, safety and empowerment of journalists and other media professionals in the European Union.
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.
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.
Activities that can be funded
- Design and manage a Europe-wide rapid response mechanism to support media freedom and journalists' safety, covering all EU Member States, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries;
- Provide legal and practical support to journalists and other media practitioners in need;
- Organise advocacy missions to locations where journalists are under threat;
- Monitor the state of media freedom in the EU Member States, countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme and candidate countries;
- Organise awareness raising campaigns in the field of media freedom and safety of journalists;
- Ensure communication and dissemination activities;
- Monitor and evaluate the action.
Eligibility
The following actions can be implemented in order to address the above described activities:
- Cooperation projects;
- Conferences, seminars;
- Training activities;
- Awareness and dissemination actions;
- Actions aiming at the creation and improvement of networks, exchanges of good practices;
- Actions aiming at the creation and improvement of digital tools;
- Studies, analyses, mapping projects;
- Legal and practical support to journalists;
- Advocacy missions towards eligible countries when necessary;
- Financial support to third parties.
Funding
- Projects should not normally exceed 24 months.
- The estimated available call budget is 3.000.000,00 €.
- Project budget (maximum grant amount): No limit.
Documents
Organisation: European Commission, European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
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